Lina Verchery

Lina Verchery is an award-winning filmmaker and Buddhist scholar whose works have been featured at the Atlantic Film Festival, the Montreal International Documentary Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and many other events. She currently teaches Buddhism and Asian religions at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

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In Ordinary Life

An award-winning independent filmmaker and scholar of religions turns her camera to a community of Chinese Buddhist nuns on pilgrimage in the Canadian Rockies.

Directed by Lina Verchery

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