Source: Los Angeles Times

On May 27, 2000 the Los Angeles Times ran an article about Dagmola Jamyang Sakya, one of Tibetan Buddhism's rare women teachers, who teaches about "Tara, the Great Wisdom Mother and female emanation of the Buddha of Compassion," to audiences in Los Angeles and in Seattle, where she has set up the Sakya Monastery. As a girl, she studied in an otherwise all-male Buddhist monastery, then fled Chinese persecution in Tibet, became a refuge in India, and finally moved to Seattle in 1961. She began teaching in 1985, after years of persistent requests.