Word: unmistaken
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...with the approval of his Spanish convert parents, four-year-old Hita was tapped by FPMT monks as the reincarnation of the group's co-founder Thubten Yeshe. Their methods will be familiar to anyone who has seen Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha or the current documentary Unmistaken Child: The monks reportedly heeded some dreams; the Dalai Lama consulted an oracle; and the capper was that young Hita "recalled" the color of the dead lama's car. (See pictures of the Dalai Lama: Six decades of spiritual leadership...
...People have made repeated requests that His Holiness should help us in finding an unmistaken successor," says Lhakdor (he uses only one name), a delegate to this week's summit in Dharamsala and director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. Tibetans do not want a repeat of the calamitous succession of the Panchen Lama in 1995, when China chose its own candidate. Pictures of the little boy whom the Chinese rejected as the 11th Panchen Lama - he is believed to be imprisoned - are still displayed here and there around Dharamsala. Tibetans fear that China will make a similar...
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