Samding Dorje Phagmo Robina Courtin (born 20 December 1944, in Melbourne, Australia[1]) is a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa tradition and lineage of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Courtin began studying martial arts in 1974, living in New York City and, again, back in Melbourne.

Robina Courtin's work has been featured in two documentary films, Christine Lundberg's On the Road Home (1998) and Amiel Courtin–Wilson's Chasing Buddha (2000), and in Vicki Mackenzie's book Why Buddhism?

[6] Her nephew's film, Chasing Buddha, documents Courtin's life and her work with death row inmates in the Kentucky State Penitentiary.

[7] In 2001, Courtin created Chasing Buddha Pilgrimage,[8] which lead pilgrimages to Buddhist holy sites in India, Nepal, and Tibet to raise money for the Liberation Prison Project[9] an association engaged for the Tibetan cause.