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Article: Viva: Joyof Buddha changed mylife.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- July 13, 2004
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Byline: ABIGAIL HUGHES
BUDDHIST nun Kelsang Dana is the first to admit that she attracts some funny glances as she goes about her business in Colwyn Bay. With Harry Potter glasses, shorn head -- ``I do it myself with hair clippers, it's very liberating'' -- and wearing a bagging yellow and maroon robe -- ``yellow symbolises wisdom and maroon is compassion'' -- 39-year-old Dana is hardly conventional. Her one concession to blustery North Wales weather is a thermal fleece jacket. ``I usually wear it on top of my robe, simply because it's so cold, '' she explains.
As she flings open the front door of her new home, boiling the kettle for tea and ushering me ...