Kittisaro, the son of a New York City Jew and a Southern Baptist,
graduated from Princeton with honors. Thanissara was born as the daughter of an
Irish Catholic father and a Protestant mother, graduated from an art school.
Both discovered Buddhism as young adults and spent more than a decade in
monastic life. And both relinquished their monastic vows to make another
cross-cultural commitment: to each other, as husband and wife.
