A founder of a local religious group has become the first woman profiled by a prestigious international Buddhist newsletter.
Jacquetta Gomes, Joint Founder of BGKT Buddhist Group of Kendal in 1991 was honoured and delighted to be the first woman profiled in the first issue of the Sakyadhita UK, the national branch of the International Association of Buddhist Women Newsletter.
NAMED: Jacquetta Gomes, Joint Founder of BGKT Buddhist Group of Kendal in 1991 was honoured and delighted to be the first woman profiled in the newsletter
She was chosen to be first since she is acknowledged as the first female Buddhist Fire Chaplain in the World and consequently a first woman.
She was included in 100 Pioneering Women of Sussex by Brighton Museums, First British Women by City Women, First Women by academic Carrie de Silva, and Inspiring Woman by Women to Work.
HONOURED: Jacquetta Gomes was delighted at her inclusion in the newsletter
Jacquetta assisted with the development of Sakyadhita UK in the 1980s.
She introduced talks at the 1989 Sakyadhita UK meeting in London; and gave a talk and led Metta; Loving Kindness, meditation at the 2009 Sakyadhita UK meeting at Fellside Centre Kendal.
ACCLAIMED: Jacquetta is also the first female Buddhist Fire Chaplain in the world
Burke’s Peerage’s inclusion of her as a Contemporary Person of Distinction in Burke’s Landed Gentry Volume III, England’s Northwest including Contemporary People of Distinction in 2006, and was recorded in the Sakyadhita International Newsletter in 2008.
Academic Caroline Starkey included her as the first female Buddhist Fire Chaplain for Women in British Buddhism.
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