13th Dalai Lama

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Elizabeth Isabelle
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13th Dalai Lama

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All I keep seeing is that the 13th Dalai Lama said that he would die early so that he, when reincarnated as the 14th (present) DL, he would be of an age where he could best deal with the tragedies that he's predicted would come. It sounds to me like he committed suicide, but I do not see anywhere exactly how the 13th Dalai Lama died. What happened?
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Ogyen Trinley Dorje: the Next Dalai Lama?

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Ogyen Trinley Dorje: the Next Dalai Lama?

Also known as the Karmapa, he fled China on foot as a teenager, uses a Mac and loves America. Meet the 22-year-old who could be the Dalai ... (see photo)

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 14,00.html


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Who Is the Dalai Lama?

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Who Is the Dalai Lama?

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But most revealing is the life of the monks themselves. At the age of about ten or twelve, young boys entered the monkhood. They immediately became the target of fierce competition between organized clubs of monks, fighting over who would get to use the boys for their homosexual pleasures. The clubs, rather like street gangs, with their own "colors" and costumes, were called dob-dobs. To get ahead rapidly in the religious hierarchy, a boy would need the "good luck" to be chosen by an older, established monk as his sex slave. This would assure advancement, although the boy would also have to service the friends of his owner/monk when so instructed.

The higher monks were pledged to celibacy, but that pertained only to restrictions against the penetration of females.

http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2007/11 ... -lama.html


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Elizabeth Isabelle
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Re: 13th Dalai Lama

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I was not aware that there were multiple Dalai Lamas. This was the 13th Dalai Lama that I was referring to, and this was the only Dalai Lama that I was previously aware of (the guy who won the Nobel Peace Prize).

BTW, your last link above is giving a 404 not found error.
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