'Red meat,' Jetsunma said, setting her menu down and tapping on it with a perfectly enameled fingernail. 'I just can't get enough.'

'The Buddha from Brooklyn' is a good read. It definately challenges the serene, gentle, smiling, male image of what a bodhisattva should be.

Tulku Jetsunma Akhon Lhamo serves up the truth to her students with the power of a tiger, the hair and makeup of a movie star and, occasionally, when they whimper too much about the inconvenience of keeping their vows-a baseball bat.

It's rockin' my world. In a good way.