[ANI] Christine is only the second Western Buddhist nun I have ever met. The first nun, whom we met a couple of weeks ago at Dargye Gompa (monastery), was an ascetic, standoffish German woman who had no interest in talking to us.
Ani Christine is different. She would always have a smile on her face and say hi when we passed each other in the hostel. This was my chance to talk to her and satisfy my curiosity about who she was, so I approached her to find out.
I think she was surprised that I came up to her because many people, as she told me later, shied away from talking to her maybe out of fear of asking the wrong questions. I wasn't afraid and asked all the wrong questions anyway:
* "WHAT COLOR IS YOUR UNDERWEAR?"
* "Didn't it feel weird to cut your hair off?"
* "Why did you choose THIS new career?"
She patiently answered my questions with a great deal of humor and did not seem to be insulted at all.
Ani Christine became a nun only two weeks ago. Her excitement about becoming a nun is so contagious that we can't help but feel completely happy for her. While talking about her past, she eagerly showed us some "before pictures" of herself with long hair and Western clothes taken only a few weeks ago and admitted that she had never had short hair.
She looks totally cute, though, with her buzz cut and her red [Tibetan] nun outfit, which she recently bought in a clothes store catering to nuns and monks.
by Thomas
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