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Tenzin Mariko is a former Buddhist monk. It may be for this reason that in 2019 she might leave behind her past of negativity.
In an interview granted to by Buzzfeed, in 2017, Mariko explained that she feared being booed off the scene after her decision. in public as an interpreter at the Miss Tibet 2015 contest in Dharamsala. Her apprehension came from the fact that she was the first openly transgender woman in the Tibetan community.
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The video, which showed her at a friend's wedding in New Delhi, earned her insulting names such as "Pholo-molo", a pejorative Tibetan term for transgender and meaning "neither man nor woman," as well as reproaches from the community of Dharamshala, where she resided.
Shortly after, after this video, she gave up the monk and adopted her true identity – as a transgender model
Mariko was born under the name Tenzin Ugen, in Bir, a village in Himachal Pradesh. At the age of 16, she had left the Tergar Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she had been sent to pursue monastic studies and had returned to Dharamsala to find her parents.
In 2015, the beauty contest made her public – but this time – as "herself" in skirts instead of dresses
Today, almost four years later Mariko is a social media influence and queer icon. In addition to being a professional dancer, a model and a makeup artist.
She has more than 20,000 followers of her Instagram account, where she posts photos of her wife in her arms and is nothing short of a strange icon on the platform. .
She even recently spoke at an interview with Tedx in Dharamshala.
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