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"We are culturally driven lay followers; We rarely are true buddhist practitioner"

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Like everyone i feel so fortunate to be born on a heavenly land where buddhism is widely preacticed. When people questions me about my religion i proudly reply and claim that, i am a true daughter of dharma king. And i provide the list of reasons saying i follow the path of Goddess Jetsen Dema, Jampelyang...etc.; I pray everyday for more than half an hour; I offer the butterlamps and tshog on every auspicious days to triple gem wholeheartedly; On that particular day i become vegetarian; i travel to visit holy places to get phisically liberated. My reasons were enough to make anyone who questions me belive that i am the true practitioner. My way of worshipping and practices goes on with same routines since birth i should say; because the moment i was born, like every parent my mom and dad would also take me to visit holy places and taught me how to pray for all sentient beings. Since i do this, without any hesitations i would always claim myself as the true budhist practitioner because