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“This Monk Wears Heels” Kodo Nishimura (2022) Review | Make-up and Buddhism


This Monk Wears Heels: Be Who You Are
Kodo Nishimura, 2022
224 pages
Read in 2022.09
check synopsis and details on amazon.com


✔ LGBTQ essay and self help
✔ Gay Buddhist monk who is a make up artist
✔ Encouraging and uplifting


🔽 Review summary 🔽

★★★★☆  Make-up is to enhance the beauty, not to hide behind it, and Buddhism is to find truth, by being true. So his purposes are not as contradictory. Such a unique person, a person with a mission.


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽

Such a unique person, a person with a mission.
Saw him on Netflix and love the fact that he is a monk and a make-up artist, at the same time, with the same purposes – though they seem completely the opposite, they are not.

This book would be a perfect self-help book for a young person who is struggling to find true self, (whether they are gay or not, I’m not gay and this is inspiring) and his message is clear; be proud.

Make-up is there to enhance the beauty, not to hide behind it, and Buddhism is there to find truth, by being true. So his purposes are not as contradictory as it might seem.

🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

This Monk Wears Heels: Be Who You Are


●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
This Monk Wears Heels: Be Who You Are

●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
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