It’s the story of the new millennium. Exhausted by the dizzying pace of corporate life, jetizens are trading in fat salaries and fatter waistlines for an improved life as full-time volunteers in spiritual orders. Some have also become monks.
A hospital bed is a fine place for some delayed introspection, discovered Malaysian Jigme Semzang as she lay sick in bed, having been brought in with high blood pressure. Further tests confirmed diabetes, high lipid and early menopause. For the 43-year-old jet-setting executive with a pharmaceutical corporation, it was time for some serious rethink.
That was five years ago. Today, Semzang is a size S, unrecognizable to her friends who remember her as an XXL weighing 135lb.At 49,shes fit, energetic and having a whale of a time as a spiritualist in the 12th Gyalwang Drukpas order (( head of the Drukpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism).
Semzang is not alone. Over the last few years, several corporate execs have joined the 12th Gyalwang Drukpas order. In her 20s, Los Angeles lawyer Carrie Lee found her way to Buddhism, discarding a lucrative career to be the sect’s media coordinator.
For 47-year-old Hector Reveroll, his corporate life as MD of Universal Music is a thing of past. In 1996, on a visit to Ladakh for a documentary to be filmed on the Gyalwang Drukpa, he lost all his equipment camera, lights, tapes in a small fire. I never felt so helpless. It was the first time I cried, he recalls.
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