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Dora Handzholder and the art of living joyfully

‘I became a Buddhist in the 1950s , but I’m also Jewish and I don’t have a quarrel with that – I don’t feel I can only be one or the other.’ Artist Dora Handzholder’s primitive style may not be to everyone’s taste but at 84 she seems to have achieved an enviable joy in life. ‘In many ways I turned to Buddhism because of its teachings of basic kindness, hope