Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buddhist reckoning, the Dalai Lama is more than 500 years old, since he is the reincarnation of all his predecessors. By Western standards he is only 23. Each time a Dalai Lama dies, monks spend months and even years looking for a suitable boy child born after his death (a system that in effect makes for a powerful regency...
...golden roof. It was this monastery that the regent of Tibet, looking for a successor to the 13th Dalai Lama, saw in the waters of Cho-Khor Gye, a lake that could tell the future. When a party of lamas descended upon the monastery, they came upon a small boy who ran up to one of them shouting, "Lama! Lama!" The boy seized a rosary that had belonged to the old Dalai Lama and hung it about his own neck. He had the protruding ears of a Buddha, the moles that marked the traces of a second pair of arms...
...mother was the only female he was allowed to receive within his household of servants, monks, abbots and the State Oracle, given to appropriately vague pronouncements ("A powerful foe threatens . . ."). The few Western visitors who, bearing sacred scarves, got audiences, found him a studious, insatiably curious and dedicated boy. He had a passion for cameras and for everything electrical, but he once observed to a visitor: "It is funny that the former body [i.e., the 13th Dalai Lama] was so fond of horses and that they mean so little...
...string tie and sideburns, and with two 16-in. Buntline Specials strapped to his thighs, he really cuts the mustard with the teen-age cow bunnies. An exmarine, he is easily the most ambitious of television's men on horseback. He looks pretty silly on a horse ("That boy," says a Hollywood riding instructor, "can't ride nothin' wilder'n a wheelchair"), but Hugh knows how to hold his seat on a board of directors. Among his business interests: a building-equipment firm, a company that rents guns to TV westerns, a hotel, a line...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A Trip to Paradise: the hard way of a teen age boy (Burt Brinckerhoff) through a world full of delinquents and beatniks...