Sister Chan Khong’s Learning True Love stands alongside the spiritual autobiographies of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi as a remarkable story of one woman’s search for social and spiritual change. Sister Chan Khong tells the story of her odyssey from a small village in Vietnam to her role as a nun and spiritual leader in Thich Nhat Hanh’s worldwide community of monastic and lay practitioners.

A testament to the power of tenacity and faith, Learning True Love is also an introduction to the life and mindfulness teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh and an overview of the development of the European and American peace and human rights movement.

The centerpiece of this fully-revised edition is a moving account of Sister Chan Khong’s return to her homeland of Vietnam after 40 years of exile. Learning True Love is the remarkable and impressive story of a courageous woman who has faced life’s challenges with unflinching integrity.

Sister Chan Khong was born in a village on the Mekong River Delta in 1938. She has devoted her life to the development and practice of nonviolence grounded in the Buddhist precepts of nonkilling and compassionate action. She is part of the community of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and lives in Plum Village, France.