Karma Lekshe Tsomo (born 23 September 1944) is a Buddhist nun, scholar and social activist.

She is a professor at the University of San Diego, where she teaches Buddhism, World Religions, and Dying, Death, and Social Justice.

This error led to a childhood interest in Zen Buddhism and her career as a Buddhist scholar and nun.

[4] In 1977, Patricia Zenn became a novice nun in France, ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition by the Sixteenth Gyalua Karmapa.

After fifteen years studying Buddhism in Dharamsala, she did her postgraduate work at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, earning a PhD in Comparative Philosophy in 2000.

[5] In 1985 Karma Lekshe Tsomo founded the Jamyang Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to improve educational opportunities for women and girls, and currently supports thirteen monastic study programmes in the Himalayan region of India and in Bangladesh.

[6] At a gathering at Bodhgaya in 1987 she became one of the founding members of Sakydhita (Daughters of the Buddha), which campaigns for gender equality in Buddhism.