This is Randi Hacker with another Postcard from Asia from the KU Center for East Asian Studies.

This is how the world began: not with a bang but with a spinning slap kick. At least, this is what His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa implied when he brought a group of teen-age Buddhist kung-fu nuns to visit the CERN large hadron super-collider in Geneva. The nuns demonstrated some high-energy martial arts moves while His Holiness explained to the particle physicists just how similar their energy is to the energy of the cosmos. Each gender has a unique energy and both types are needed for the cosmos to work optimally. In acknowledging the equality of female energy, His Holiness departs wildly from Buddhist tradition in which nuns were forbidden to practice martial arts. A quirky viewpoint, huh? Or should we say quarky?

From the KU Center for East Asian Studies, this is Randi Hacker. Wish you were here.