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Article: LESSONS OF HISTORY FROM TIBETAN SCHOLAR BUDDHIST MAN TEACHES LIFE'S INTANGIBLES.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- February 5, 2003
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Byline: BRAD WONGP-I reporter
BELLEVUE -- In 1996, I trekked with a friend to a Tibetan monastery, nestled high in China's southwestern mountains. In fact, the air was so thin at that altitude that our bodies tingled. We marveled at the intense blue sky.
As we explored the monastery, a young monk peered out of his room and motioned for us to enter.
We were intrigued with this bald man and his maroon robe and dark, leatherlike skin. And we spent the entire afternoon together, discussing life, fate, education, reincarnation and the value of traveling. He said it was fate that we met.
As we sipped yak milk, he said he would come find ...