Kazini Elisa Maria
Dorjee's "mysteriously charming and conspiring wife", Kazini Elisa Maria, was even more shrewd than her husband and was his chief confidante and adviser. Formerly Elisa-Maria Langford-Rae, she had been married twice before. She was of Scottish extraction and had studied law at Edinburgh University. She had lived a very colourful life, working as a journalist for a French newspaper and lived for a while in Kemal Atatürk's palace in Turkey. She converted to Buddhism and took Sangharakshita as her teacher. In the 1920s she had been in Burma where for a while she was a close friend of the author George Orwell.
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