Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions

Author/Contributor(s):	Jivaka
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Date:	05/01/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Out of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a ship's surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962.