Marilyn Silverstone

Marilyn Rita Silverstone (9 March 1929 – 28 September 1999) was an English photojournalist and ordained Buddhist nun.

Youth The eldest daughter of Murray and Dorothy Silverstone was born in London. and 20th-Century Fox, working with Charlie Chaplin and other early film stars in London. The family returned to America just before the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe.

Silverstone grew up in Scarsdale, New York. After graduating from Wellesley College, she became an associate editor for Art News, Industrial Design and Interiors in the early 1950s. Her photographs of the arrival in India of the Dalai Lama, who was escaping from the Chinese invasion of Tibet, made the lead in Life. in which she was only one of five women members. the University of St Andrews hosted a seminar in conjunction with this exhibition, and as Silverstone had just recently died, the seminar became an opportunity for her peers to celebrate her life and career.

Buddhist nun

Silverstone's conversion to Buddhist nun was said to have begun when she was a teenager suffering from the mumps. or Ani Marilyn to her close friends. where she had worked to establish and maintain.

Selected works Books by Silverstone Gurkhas And Ghosts: The Story Of A Boy In Nepal. London: Methuen Publishing, 1964. [reprinted by Criterion Books, New York, 1970. .] Bala: Child of India. New York: Hastings House, 1968. . Ocean of Life: Visions of India and the Himalayan Kingdoms. New York: Aperture Foundation, 1985. .

Books with contributions by Silverstone Miller, Luree. (1987). The Black Hat Dances: Two Buddhist Boys in the Himalayas (photography by Marilyn Silverstone). New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. (cloth)