About
Sadhvi Shilapi, a Jain nun, comes from Veerayatan, a Jain socioreligious institution located at Rajgir in the State of Bihar in northeast India. She received her masters degree in Comparative Indian Religions from King's College, London in 1995 and is currently working there on her doctoral thesis, Compassionate Aspect of Jainism. She has established an International School of Jainism with centers in North and South London and in Nairobi and Thika in Kenya.