ABC.net.au
BURNIE, Tasmania — Buddhist priest Alan Piercey is a hospital chaplain in Burnie, a fireman with his local brigade in Penguin and a one-time purveyor of chocolate.
He is known to the people on the North West coast by a number of different names, the most often used borrowed from a popular animated movie.
“My ordained name is Venerable Shih Jingang (pronounced Cher Gin Gun),” he said. “Most people around the North West Regional Hospital in Burnie just know me as Sifu. And if you ask any five-year-old, they’ll know exactly who Sifu is: a character from Kung Fu Panda. I believe it’s a cartoon.”
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