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...surprised when, at the age of seven, Khyentse Norbu was approached at his Jesuit elementary school by a group of Tibetan monks. They informed him that he had been identified as the third reincarnation of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, a lama and theologian who presided over Dzongsar Monastery in eastern Tibet in the 19th century. The monks took the young rinpoche to Sikkim, now in modern-day India, where he spent the next six years in secluded monastic tuition. He then moved to Rajpur to study at Sakya College where an American friend (now one of his producers) gave...
...life is a unique blend of worldly involvement and ethereal detachment. He runs a foundation that teaches computer literacy in New Delhi, a Tibetan art school in Sichuan province in western China and a Buddhist retreat center in Vancouver. He presides over his traditional seat, the Dzongsar Monastery in Tibet, as well as several monasteries, colleges and retreat centers in Bhutan and India. But he also spends months at a time in isolated meditation. While he embraces the role dictated by his Buddhist lineage, he's no knee-jerk traditionalist: he views the ossified rituals and hierarchical structure...
...more days on the islands. I learned more from those trips than from years in school, and I'd begun to look forward to the day when my daughters would light out on their own adventures--to go see their relatives in Australia or hike in Tibet or do things in Bali that they wouldn't want to tell Dad about. But that was before our world was curdled. So add one more reason to hate what the terrorists have done: they've stolen our dreams...
Nathan Hill ’03 declared his intent to enter the contest with a collection of books on Tibet that he began in high school...
...SENTENCED. LUORANG DENGZHU AND ANGAG TASHI, two Tibetan men; to death by a Chinese court for their involvement in a spate of bomb blasts in a southwestern province bordering Tibet; in Garze Prefecture, Sichuan. Tashi, whose sentence has been suspended for two years, is an influential community leader who studied under the Dalai Lama...