UK - Scotland - Western woman practices Tibetan-Buddhism.

Sitting cross-legged on the floor, Michelle Dean is a young follower of Tibetan-Buddhism and chants her Puja, or prayer in the privacy of her own home, a bed sit in Edinburgh, Scotland. Having studied her Buddhism at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Michelle now lives within the larger society rather than the more closed but free community of Samye Ling where many people disaffected with western life or whom have experienced troubled times and sometimes escaping a criminal past, arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreats and self-purification, short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation.

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Sitting cross-legged on the floor, Michelle Dean is a young follower of Tibetan-Buddhism and chants her Puja, or prayer in the privacy of her own home, a bed sit in Edinburgh, Scotland. Having studied her Buddhism at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Michelle now lives within the larger society rather than the more closed but free community of Samye Ling where many people disaffected with western life or whom have experienced troubled times and sometimes escaping a criminal past, arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreats and self-purification, short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation.