SIDE LIGHTS.

Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | February 4, 2000 | Copyright

* The current Dalai Lama (photo below), the 14th in Tibet's history, looks and acts more like a kindly grandfather than a god-king revered by 2.5 million followers. Born in 1935, he was chosen to replace the 13th Dalai Lama in 1940 as a 5-year-old boy. According to Tibetan Buddhist belief in reincarnation, the 13th Dalai Lama would be reborn in a new body after death. Soon after the 13th Dalai Lama passed away, a committee of high monks searched for two years throughout Tibet testing likely candidates for the rebirth. In a remote village they found a young boy named Tenzin ...

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