Who Is Barkha Madan, Actor Turned Buddhist Monk?
She also participated in the Miss India beauty pageant along with Aishwarya Rai.
We often ask about the purpose of life and what the real goal is that we need to achieve. Also, while this is common for all of us to go through an existential crisis, it’s still not easy to make a life-changing decision that the little voice is asking you to do. However, Barkha Madan took such a decision and left her glamorous life as an actress to become a Buddhist Monk. She has now been living a peaceful life in the mountains. Read on to know more about it.
Know More About Barkha Madan
If you see Barkha Madan’s social media, it’s filled with her life stories as a Buddhist Monk. She also wears the monk attire and lives a very simple, low-key life in the mountains surrounded by nature and clean air. However, Barkha Madan accepted this life in 2012, and before this, she lived an opposite life, which was glam, noisy, and always in the public eye.
Barkha Madan started her career by participating in the beauty pageant. She competed for Miss India, with other colleagues like Aishwarya Rai and Sushmita Sen. She also went on to win the title of ‘Miss India Tourism’. Barkha Madan came third in a beauty pageant held in Malaysia. She was clearly on top of her game as a confident, intelligent and beautiful woman. Not just this, Barkha Madan also acted in films like ‘Khiladiyon Ke Khiladi’ and ‘Bhoot’ that was directed by Ram Gopal Verma.
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However, not very long into this life as actor, which she was excelling at, Barkha Madan decided to give it up all. She then followed a different path in her life, and became a Buddhist Monk. Madan even took a new name Gyalten Samten.
Now, looking at her Instagram handle, it’s clear that Barkha Madan is quite peaceful living a life away from the buzzy and busy city life.
Image Courtesy: Instagram
First Published: October 09, 2025 4:02 PM
