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15 Jan 2009 Western Women, Eastern Nuns (Spirituality & Health, Jan 09)
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My latest piece “Why Western Women Become Eastern Nuns,” and one of my favorites. The cherry on top is that my photography is published in this magazine as well. That makes it my second photography credit, the first being NationalGeographic.com. Wahoo!

What drives women to give up jobs, leave friends and family, and take monastic vows in a faraway land? My visit to a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery in India provides some answers.

The piece isn’t online yet, but I’ll post an update when it is.

18 Apr 2008 Western Nuns, Eastern Philosophies (ELLE, April 08)
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What motivates a British woman with a full life to leave everything and get ordained as a Buddhist nun? Can a former promiscuous drug addict live the life of celibacy? Why does a woman from a Western culture become an Eastern nun?

The full article appears in this month’s issue of Elle (Indian edition).