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Journey of a lifetime: A US teen Buddhist lama is now a monk studying in the Himalayan foothills
The 18-year-old, recognized by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnated lama, is beginning monastic training after graduating high school and moving to India.
- On Monday, April 6, U.S.-born Buddhist lama Jalue Dorje attended sacred rituals at Shechen Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, walking through crowded streets to the monastery near the 1,500-year-old Boudhanath stupa.
- Recognized by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnated lama at age 2, Dorje was later confirmed as the eighth Terchen Taksham Rinpoche and graduated high school last year before moving to northern India to join the Mindrolling Monastery, about 7,200 miles from his home in Columbia Heights.
- Six months earlier, Dorje was pulling all-nighters playing Madden NFL on his Xbox near Minneapolis, snacking on pizza rolls and Diet Coke; fluent in English and Tibetan, he excelled in public school with a Dalai Lama photo above DVD collections of The Simpsons and South Park.
- After blessing thousands during the 12-day rituals, Dorje and his family drove eight hours on dirt roads to the Maratika or Halesi Mahadev Caves, 100 miles southwest of Mount Everest, where he prayed with his father, Dorje Tsegyal, as they had done almost daily since childhood.
- Following years of asceticism and contemplation, Dorje aims to return to Minnesota to teach at the Nyingmapa Taksham Buddhist Center, with a goal to become a "leader of peace" following the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and Gandhi.
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Journey of a lifetime: A U.S. teen Buddhist lama is now a monk studying in the Himalayan foothills
A teenage Buddhist lama recently blessed thousands at a monastery in the Himalayan foothills. Just six months earlier and thousands of miles away, he was pulling all-nighters to play Madden NFL on his Xbox at his home in a Minneapolis…
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