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Article: Drawn to the Light Of Buddhism; For American Converts, Tibetan Monk Has Much to Teach About Their Lives
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- The Washington Post
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- May 30, 1994
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In a room painted daffodil yellow, a room full of Americans sat
cross-legged on floor cushions today listening expectantly to a
round-faced man in tangerine and grape-colored robes, elevated on a
small painted throne.
He spoke in Tibetan, and most of them could not understand
until he paused and the interpreter spoke.
Yet more than 60 Americans had driven miles to this new Tibetan
Buddhist temple on an isolated hillside outside Frederick to
participate in an "empowerment ceremony" led by His Holiness Drikung
Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, head of the Drikung Kagyu order of
Tibetan Buddhism.
They came not because he is brother-in-law to the Dalai Lama,
Tibet's secular and religious ...