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At 26, Matthieu Ricard left a promising scientific career in France to become a Buddhist monk in the Himalayas.

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In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

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Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.