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Lobzang Jivaka (formerly Laura M. Dillon then Lawrence M. Dillon, fourth from left), Rizong Monastery, Ladakh, Buddhist India, with fellow lamas, 1960 (Courtesy of Jacob Lau/pri.org).
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| Gender and Spiritual Transitions (Dr. L. Dillon) |
Over several years in the 1940s, s/he also underwent a groundbreaking physical transition from female to male through a series of surgical operations.
But all of that was just part of this Englishman’s remarkable story of personal sexual transformation.
Dr. Dillon tells the story in a memoir called Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions (Fordham U Press).
The book was published in Nov. 2016, more than a half-century after Dr. Dillon’s unexpected death in 1962, when s/he was a Buddhist novice (trainee) lama.
The book was published in Nov. 2016, more than a half-century after Dr. Dillon’s unexpected death in 1962, when s/he was a Buddhist novice (trainee) lama.
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| Editors Jacob Lau, Cameron Partridge (pri.org) |
As a child Laura always liked boy stuff, like a military coat with anchor buttons. But when Laura got a little older, people said it was high time to give up the tomboy thing and start acting like a young lady. More
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