[Buddha-l] 17th Karmapa

[Joy Vriens]

Stephen Hopkins wrote:
> Denizens -
> 
> Interesting piece here from Tuesday October 4th Guardian about, as they put
> it, 'the fight for title of 17th karmapa':
> 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1584238,00.html

A decade ago Mr Rinpoche enthroned a bespectacled boy named Tenzin 
Chentse, whose parents, he said, were Tibetan refugees. The boy was 
later named Thaye Dorje. When Mr Rinpoche tried to bring him to Sikkim, 
there was a melee and the boy spent the next few weeks under the guard 
of 300 monks. Mr Rinpoche was subsequently barred from entering Sikkim.

Thanks for a good laugh, Mr. Rinpoche...

Rinpoche happens to be the most common Tibetan "family name".