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Article: I gave up a life of riches with my millionaire love to live in a Buddhist hut; As her wealthy lover proposed, offering her a Venetian apartment as an engagement present, Scots teacher Gabrielle McGuire realised all she wanted was to become a Buddhist nun.(Features)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- March 4, 2004
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Byline: By Samantha Booth
AS a Buddhist nun, Kelsang Machig leads a simple life. She shaves her hair, doesn't wear any make-up and doesn't have many material possessions.
She's celibate, teetotal and loves to spend time on her own in empty huts meditating. A far cry from the life she could have had if she hadn't chosen to become ordained.
If she had accepted the marriage proposal from her handsome, multi-millionaire boyfriend a few months before she decided to become a nun she could have spent the rest of her life jet setting while decked out in ...