Should an artist's personal life be taken into account when judging his work? This book is mostly about Jetsunma's and her student's personal lives and very little about their work. The amount of time spent describing negative incidents becomes depressing. As the author says herself, maybe she is holding these people to a different standard when she is critical of a nun having her own coffee pot in her room. Nuns should be more communal, I guess. Gossip and scandalous details can be intriguing but a steady diet of it is just not much fun to read.