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Buddhist retreat for women opens
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FREMONT--In a nondescript two-story house in a residential
neighborhood between the Niles Historic District and Old Canyon, two
women with shaven heads wearing rust and saffron robes sit on mats
and meditate.
To a visitor, the trains rumbling by, dogs barking and the loud
bass thumping from a neighbor's stereo may not make for the most
tranquil location for the new monastic retreat home for women
training to be ordained as clerics, or bhikkhunis.
But, as 37-year-old Heather Bur...
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