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epa04990669 YEARENDER 2015 FEATURE PACKAGES.(27/27) Dhammananda Bhikkhuni (in her lay life named Chatsumarn Kabilsingh), 70, seated R, with female Buddhist monastics pray before the Medicine Buddha, at the Songdhammakalyani Bhikkhuni Arama monastery in Nakhon Pathom, situated about 80 km west from Bangkok, Thailand, 20 September 2015. Abbess Dhammananda is the first Thai female to be ordained a bhikkhuni in the Theravada monastic lineage. EPA/BARBARA WALTON PLEASE REFER TO THIS ADVISORY NOTICE (epa04959872) FOR FULL PACKAGE TEXT