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  • Lion's Roar

    DR. ANOUK AIMÉE SHAMBROOK

    Sep 19, 2023 2 minutes

    I’M A BLACK BUDDHIST teacher in a troubled America.

    I was raised in a conservative white town in Southern California. My Haitian mother and Irish father raised my siblings and me Catholic. They also introduced us to Buddhist philosophy. Maman would lead us in meditation, her melodious, accented voice filling the room. My brother and I would suppress giggles, placing

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