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In 1928, the elder monks of the Gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism divined that a five-year-old boy living in a remote part of Tibet was the reincarnation of the ninth Khyongla of Tibet. Ori the boy’s sixth birthday, monks on horseback took him from his parents to a monastery some distance away where he was installed as its spiritual head. For over three decades, he lived the sober life of a monk, studying at the most famous monasteries in Tibet, until the Communist Chinese took over his country in 1959. Along with thousands of monks, as well as the Dalai Lama, he then fled on foot over the Himalayas to safety, and to a radically different life in India, and eventually in the United States. This is the story of his years in Tibet, and. of his narrow escape. Never before has a book by an insider explored in such detail the rituals and ceremonies that made up the now-vanished monastic life in Tibet. „No one has given us anything like this full-bodied narrative picture of Tibet as it was known to its people….Nor have we anywhere anything like this inward history of the life and disciplines of its great Buddhist monasteries and temples, hermitages and mountain retreats — any such intimate portraits of its once numerous scholar-mystics.” Joseph Campbell
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