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The Dalai Lama

The memory of meeting the Dalai Lama makes me think of my younger brother. We were living in India at the time, and the trip to the Dalai Lama's residence in Dharmsala, the holy city outside Tibet, involved many buses and trains. I must have been about nine years old. At that age, you feel dragged around. At nine, one is sort of smugly dedicated to pouting. It's a great guard against the vulnerable feelings that come with preadolescence. But the trip was exciting--and it meant so much to my family. My father was the first American to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk, and he teaches Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University. That's how I came ...

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