Minnesota in the News Again: Reincarnated Hindu Spiritual Leader in Columbia Heights?
The little lama from Columbia Heights
Article by: ALLIE SHAH , Star Tribune
Updated: December 18, 2011 - 9:00 AM
Tibetan Buddhists see the extraordinary in this Columbia Heights boy -- a reincarnated guru.
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It's morning time and a little boy with a shaved head and a face shaped like the moon chants a Tibetan prayer.
His high-pitched voice echoes inside the Columbia Heights bedroom that his father has transformed into a lavish prayer room. In here, the 4-year-old forsakes his cartoons and toys to study scripture and learn to pray the Buddhist way.
Big for his age, he looks bigger still perched on an ornate chair draped in crimson and saffron robes. "Only for lamas," explains his father, Dorje Tsegyal, sitting cross-legged on the floor at his son's feet.
Jalue Dorjee, you see, is believed to be no ordinary boy.
According to the highest authorities of the Tibetan Buddhist order, he is the reincarnation of the speech, mind and body of a lama, or spirit…