The More You Know

Things I learned from a random documentary tonight:

Did you know that after the 13th Dalai Lama died in Tibet, three monks were sent off to find his reincarnation. During this ling journey, they stopped and prayed at the shores of a lake and saw a vision of a monastery and house with a very particular fence. Eventually, they happened upon the exact monastery and the house, featuring that same fence. When they arrived, the young boy living there came out. He walked up to one of the monks, took his prayer beads and said, "Those belong to me." The beads had belonged to the previous Dalai Lama.

So, they give him a test and he properly identified every object that had belonged to the previous DL. All 23. He, the 14th Dalai Lama, is the one we are familiar with (thank you Richard Gere).

It was prohisized by the 8th Dalai Lama that the 14th would be the last inside Tibet.

Then the Chinese came.

In this country of 3 million people, 1 million were killed.

Of the 6000 monasteries there had been, by the 1980s, only 16 were left.