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Out of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a ship’s surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962.

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A Paperback / softback by Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka, Jacob Lau, Cameron Partridge

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    Publisher: Fordham University Press
    Publication Date: 01/05/2018
    ISBN13: 9780823280391, 978-0823280391
    ISBN10: 082328039X
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    Book Synopsis
    Out of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a ship’s surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962.

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