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Girl in a Box: Seeking Enlightenment as a Tibetan Buddhist Nun
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An Oklahoma girl’s years of immersion in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery
Girl in a Box: Seeking Enlightenment as a Tibetan Buddhist Nun chronicles a five-year immersion in the paradigm-altering world of a Tibetan retreat center in New York’s Hudson Valley. It weaves flashbacks of Collins’ former life with her ongoing attempts to surrender to monastic life. She travels to India with her teacher, takes vows as a nun, then returns to life at the monastery where she works as a house cleaner days a...