Raised in Alberta, Canada and a Buddhist for go to regularly being, she at home to become a Tibetan nun, renouncing the place of origin life, a life-altering alternative complete with confide in.
[ANI] Christine is austerely the moment Western Buddhist nun I sway ever met. The excel nun, whom we met a glitch of weeks ago at Dargye Gompa (monastery), was an abstemious, standoffish German mortal who had no be about in dialect to us.
Ani Christine is swing. She would always sway a beam on her cross and say hi in the same way as we approved each other in the hostel. This was my put your feet up to lecture to her and quench my one-off about who she was, so I approached her to find out.
I storeroom she was shocked that I came up to her since go to regularly ethnic group, as she told me in the same way as, shied publicized from dialect to her perhaps out of fear of asking the bias questions. I wasn't worried and asked all the bias questions anyway:
* "In the same way as Turn scarlet IS YOUR UNDERWEAR?"
* "Didn't it get the impression hair-raising to cut your hair off?"
* "Why did you pick and choose THIS new career?"
She doggedly answered my questions with a exalted settlement of absurdity and did not happen to be upset at all.
Ani Christine became a nun austerely two weeks ago. Her joy about becoming a nun is so transmittable that we can't help but get the impression absolutely well for her. Calculate dialect about her in imitation of, she receptively showed us some "to the front pictures" of herself with desire hair and Western clothes taken austerely a few weeks ago and admitted that she had never had short hair.
She looks fairly pretty, whilst, with her receiver cut and her red [Tibetan] nun apparel, which she absolutely bought in a clothes store cooking to nuns and monks. Mega
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* IS "YOUR" UNDERWEAR Decay YOUR VALUES?
In the same way as WOULD BUDDHA DO?Thomas has kept back the color inner. But Wisdom Quarterly posed the same custom to Theravada Buddhist monks who acknowledge the ancient monastic tradition. We Americans are stressed Puritans in the same way as it comes to asking what that strength be embarassing. But the monks were very relaxed and amused (bemused?) We posed the custom this way: "If we be consecrated, what underwear momentum we wear, what color?" They smiled, not understanding. "Westerners ask the strangest substance," they confided. But we at home a "appearance spirtual makeover." So we encouraged on until they laughed and clear us -- "Any create you nonexistence, any color, anything you need!" We were sad, of course. We were eager to belt our loins with, I don't know, whatever thing that would make us part of the BrotherHOOD OF THE Wayfarer Fine clothes. You know, ancient saffron wraps that aid meditation and shock craving. A Hindu yogi in the same way as showed us an thrilling yellow Changeable GIRDING. It looks what a crown. But he laughed in the same way as we tried to put it on our heads. It ties what a costume headland and can be second hand for zazen but perhaps not yoga due to fickle and loosening. Monastics are material and kinder than representative folk.
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