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Article: A Lama to The Globe: The Dalai Lama looks beyond Tibet, and meditates on his reincarnation as an ambassador of Buddhism.(International)
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- Newsweek
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- August 16, 1999
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In a small yellow temple off a rutted mountain road in northern India, a simple image of the Buddha gazes north, over the Himalayas, toward Tibet. It is dawn and across the courtyard of what was once a British colonial cantonment, the Dalai Lama is meditating on his eventual death and passage to rebirth. The entire compound--the temple, the concrete monastery for 200 monks and the Dalai Lama's matching yellow bungalow called The Heavenly Abode--has the provisional look of a summer camp at the end of the season. For 40 years Upper Dharmsala has been the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile. But if the Chinese government would let him, the Dalai Lama would dissolve his ...
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