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Article: Time trip.
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- October 3, 2003
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* The Dalai Lama, born on July 6, 1935, says he was just an "ordinary baby." His parents were poor farmers who lived in a mud hut in a remote Tibetan village. No one in his family had any idea that the boy named Lhamo Thondup would one day be called "His Holiness."
* "My earliest memories are very ordinary? writes the Dalai Lama in his autobiography. "One thing that I remember enjoying particularly as a very young boy was going into the hen coop to collect the eggs with my mother and then staying behind. I liked to sit in the hens' nest and make clucking noises" Sure, just an ordinary boy.
* Not just anyone can grow up to be the Dalai Lama. He is ...