Word: norbu
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...Addresses by TunHuo Lee, associate professor of virology at the School of Public Health, will be joined by Jamyang Norbu of Tibet; Guo Guo Li of China; Allen Keller of Physicians for Human Rights; Carl Williams of Amnesty International, and Phuntsok Dolma of Tibet, among others...
...Each marker was inscribed with the name of a Tibetan boy identified, during a six-year search, as a possible incarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama, who died in 1989. The urn was turned several times, and then a senior monk withdrew a marker bearing the name of Gyaincain Norbu, 6, who was quickly ushered into the room in golden robes and a yellow silk hat. Norbu was hailed by the monks and by a man dressed incongruously in a Western-style suit: Luo Gan, a senior Chinese official dispatched to oversee the ceremony. Luo later bent forward, shook...
...Norbu looked frightened, as well he should. With the turn of a golden urn and a handshake, he became a central figure in what promises to be a long and bitter war between Tibet and a communist government determined to retain control of the troublesome province, right up to choosing its top religious leaders. For six years, China had insisted on its authority to select the Panchen Lama. But in May, following ancient Tibetan custom and practices, the Dalai Lama announced that he had chosen six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the new Panchen Lama. Officials in Beijing were...
...second-highest religious leader in Tibet. In an effort to lend legitimacy to its 45-year rule of Tibet, China has unearthed an obscure 1792 agreement they say gives the government, rather than the Dalai Lama, the right to choose the Panchen Lama. Wednesday, the government chose Gynincain Norbu, born six years ago when the 10th Panchen Lama died, as the "legitimate" 11th incarnation of the Panchen Lama. With the Dalai Lama in exile, the Panchen Lama is the chief religious leader in the country, and TIME's Meenakshi Ganguly reports that the battle for his position...
Little Buddha hopscotches the world from the kingdom of Bhutan to Seattle, Washington, and leapfrogs millenniums from the Buddha's birth in 2500 B.C. to today. In Bhutan a Tibetan monk named Lama Norbu (Ying Ruocheng) hears that an American boy, Jesse Conrad (Alex Wiesendanger), may be the reincarnation of an important lama. Incredulous at first, Jesse's parents (Chris Isaak and Bridget Fonda) are sufficiently impressed by Lama Norbu's otherworldly sweetness that they allow the boy to keep company with him, and eventually to journey to Bhutan with his father and two other candidates for the exalted position...