Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/238407_nuns29.html
On August 29, 2005 the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported, "The photographs of women on the walls of the Tibetan Nuns Project -- which came home to Seattle this spring -- are of young novices and wizened veterans with shaved heads erupting in laughter in their red-and-saffron robes. A video of their life in exile shows similarly animated nuns doing farming and debating Buddhist philosophy. They are the faces of women who have escaped persecution, imprisonment and sometimes rape to practice Buddhism and learn to read and write... In a small office in Pioneer Square, the Tibetan Nuns Project helps coordinate aid for the nuns and receives handmade items from women striving to be self-sufficient. In Seattle, where the project started in the early '90s, TNP has found a welcoming environment -- even more so than in Berkeley, Calif., its home for more than a decade... Seattle was one of the first resettlement sites for Tibetans given asylum in the United States. About 250 Tibetans now live in the state."