Turtle feet

Nikolai Grozni was a music prodigy, a jazz pianisttraining at the prestigious Berklee College of Musicin Boston, when suddenly he decided to transformhis life. He moved to India to become a Buddhistmonk—shaving his head, learning Tibetan, and donninglong traditional robes. In the Himalayas—livingin a hut a stone's throw from the Dalai Lama's compound—Grozni became entrenched in a sometimescomical, sometimes reverent, always intriguingcommunity comprised of feisty nuns, bossy monks,violent chess players, demanding teachers, and aspectacular friend called Tsar, a fallen monk fromBosnia.Grozni…