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Item
Title
T91-2
Date(s)
- 1936-04 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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The ordination ceremony for Mrs. Sunya Pratt was held on Thursday April 23, 1936, at the Tacoma Buddhist Temple, 1717 Fawcett Ave. Mrs. Pratt was the first non-Asian woman ordained as a Buddhist minister in the United States. Born in England, the daughter of a philosopher and writer, she began studying Buddhism in 1934 under Rev. Robert S. Clifton in Tacoma. (T Times 4/22/1936 p.1) TPL-6623
Pratt, Sunya; Clergy--Tacoma--1930-1940; Buddhism--Tacoma; Priests--Tacoma--1930-1940;