After graduating from university at the height of the pandemic in 2021, Lu Zi landed an enviable job with an e-commerce giant. A year later, she had given it all up and was living at a Buddhist temple in eastern China.
Like many of her peers, Lu was ambitious and spent her university years planning for her career – with a degree in Chinese, she saw a future in e-commerce. But 12 months into her first job she needed a break and decided to volunteer at the temple in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province.
