No complains and gossiping about others, no depression, no sullenness but a lot of self-assuredness and self-satisfaction that can even sometimes lead to a kind of narcissism. She has a special ability to adapt to life, welcomes when young people live with her in the same apartment, is full of joke, vitality and joie de vivre. Though Kunsang recently celebrated her 100th birthday she is still independent and fit. In between she is reciting millions of times certain mantras. She follows her daily religious practices. In all these years living in Switzerland Kunsang never gave up her clerical life. They got married and he took them both to Switzerland. Then in 1972 Sonam fell in love with a Swiss student who studied anthropology in India. And her daughter Sonam could attend school classes.
Slowly their situation improved, Kunsang got a job as a foster mother in a children's village. Both underwent many hardships, had to work in road construction, were living in primitive tents, sometimes starving. She was left alone in exile with one daughter. There three of her children and her husband died. In 1959 when the Chinese invaded Tibet the family ran away to India. She later married willy-nilly a Tibetan man, he also a cleric, and gave birth to four children. When she turned six years old she decided to become a nun.
This is the story of an extraordinary woman, Kunsang Wangmo, a 100 year old Buddhist nun from Tibet.
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