Tibetan Lama flees to India!!! Hima

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Subject: Tibetan Lama flees to India!!! Himalaya Film See it now.

This is such great news! Forty years after the original trek of His
Holiness the Dali Dama! Let me tell you, here in France, the film
Himalaya is the third largest grossing film in France today, with nearly
a million spectators. It is a beautiful film by the creator of the Oscar
winning film Cosmos (the life of bugs), and, here, inthe film Himalaya
you are taken across the winter trek of the Himalayas on a voyage of the
struggle of the human spirit. 

I saw it here in paris a few days ago while the Karmapa was on his trail
south in the same one real world.

Go See the film. The tibetan music is very good and the imagery is the
best you will see ever. (this film is nominated for best foreign film
oscar hollywood nominations 2000.)

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> 
> Friday, 7 January, 2000, 13:50 GMT
> Tibetan Lama flees to India
> 
>    Teenage Lama: Escaped across the
> Himalayas
> One of Tibetan Buddhism's most powerful figures has escaped from Tibet
> to meet the movement's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in India.
> 
> The Karmapa Lama is the only senior Tibetan Buddhist officially
> recognised by the Chinese authorities and his escape is certain to be
> an embarrassment.
> 
> The 14-year-old Karmapa Lama left his monastry in Tibet's capital,
> Lhasa, telling guards he was going to a hill-top retreat. He then
> trekked across the frozen Himalayas to reach Dharamsala, in northern
> India.
> 
> He was accompanied by a small band of monks on the expedition that
> lasted at least five days.
> 
> It is not yet clear whether his intentions are to leave Chinese-ruled
> Tibet permanently or if it is a temporary measure in order to receive
> further religious teaching.
> 
> After arriving in Dharamsala, he is reported to have met the Dalai
> Lama, who fled from Tibet using a similar route 40 years ago.
> 
> The Karmapa Lama, the third most powerful person
> in Tibetan Buddhism, is the only person among the
> religion's senior figures accepted by both the Beijing and the Dalai
> Lama.
> 
> He is said to have evaded his Chinese guards in Tibet by telling them
> he was going on a religious retreat.
> 
> Beijing has issued a statement saying the Karmapa left a letter
> explaining he was collecting religious artefacts and did not intend to
> betray the Chinese state.
> 
> Correspondents say the statement deliberately avoided criticising the
> Lama in order to leave the way open for him to return.
> 
> But Robert Barnett, a Tibetan expert at Colombia University, New York,
> said: "It leaves China's religious policy in Tibet in complete
> disarray."
> 
> The BBC has been told that the Karmapa Lama had become increasingly
> frustrated with a lack of access to religious teachers in Tibet.
> 
> He is said to have wanted either permission to travel abroad for
> lessons from Lamas from his school of Buddhism, or for permission from
> Beijing for a teacher to visit him.
> 
> Chinese recognition
> 
> The Karmapa heads the Karma Kagyu - Tibetan Buddhism's second most
> important, after that headed by the Dalai Lama.
> 
> He was the first Tibetan reincarnation to be          Dharamsala is
> recognised by the Chinese authorities. He is also
> accepted as the true reincarnation by the Dalai    also home to the
> Lama; a fact that has given him status among       exiled Dalai Lama
> Tibet's religious leaders.
> 
> In 1992, he agreed to stay in Tibet in return for Chinese recognition.
> China used the agreement as proof of the legitimacy of its rule in the
> disputed region.
> 
> China considers the Dalai Lama to be an enemy of the state, and there
> is dispute between him and Beijing over who is the reincarnated
> Panchen Lama, the religion's second most powerful figure.
> 
> Disputed Lama
> 
> Last year the Karmapa appeared in public with another controversial
> reincarnation, the boy who China decided was the Panchen Lama, passing
> over the Dalai Lama's choice.
> 
> Beijing and the Dalai Lama chose their different candidates for the
> Panchen Lama in 1995.
> 
> The Dalai Lama's choice, now 10, and his family have not been seen in
> public since. Human rights groups believe they are under house arrest.
> 
> Beijing's choice was installed by Tibetan monks, surrounded by Chinese
> officials, in Tashi Lhunpo monastery in Shigatse.
> 
> But he is regarded by many Tibetans as a fake
> 
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