Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Miranda de Souza Canavarro (1849-1933) was a Portuguese noblewoman, notable as the first woman to convert to Buddhism on American soil (in 1897) and later a Buddhist nun in Ceylon. While in America she was often known as Marie. She was the wife of the Portuguese ambassador to Sandwich Islands, who began a secret \"spiritual marriage\" to New York attorney and Buddhist sympathizer Myron Henry Phelps."@en }
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- Miranda_de_Souza_Canavarro comment "Miranda de Souza Canavarro (1849-1933) was a Portuguese noblewoman, notable as the first woman to convert to Buddhism on American soil (in 1897) and later a Buddhist nun in Ceylon. While in America she was often known as Marie. She was the wife of the Portuguese ambassador to Sandwich Islands, who began a secret \"spiritual marriage\" to New York attorney and Buddhist sympathizer Myron Henry Phelps.".