The Dalai Lama.(Interview)

From: The Progressive | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Pal, Amitabh | Copyright information

You have to be really hard-bitten not to be taken with the Dalai Lama's charm. He came across in our meeting as so pleasant and friendly--complete with a robust sense of humor--that I was disarmed.

The fourteenth Dalai Lama was born July 6, 1935, in the northeastern Tibetan province of Amdo. Named Lhamo Thondup by his parents, he was renamed Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso after monks discovered him at the age of two and proclaimed him to be the reinca...

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