Had the D.L. been an anagram specialist, he could have guessed:
Boy chosen by Dalai Lama
<---> basically beyond OM, aha!
<---> is beyond lama cabal, hoy!
Dale Fuchs in Madrid
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 31 May 2009 23.11 BST
As a toddler, he was put on a throne and worshipped by monks who treated him like a god. But the boy chosen by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnation of a spiritual leader has caused consternation – and some embarrassment – for Tibetan Buddhists by turning his back on the order that had such high hopes for him.
Instead of leading a monastic life, Osel Hita Torres now sports baggy trousers and long hair, and is more likely to quote Jimi Hendrix than Buddha.
Yesterday he bemoaned the misery of a youth deprived of television, football and girls. Movies were also forbidden – except for a sanctioned screening of The Golden Child starring Eddie Murphy, about a kidnapped child lama with magical powers. "I never felt like that boy," he said.
He is now studying film in Madrid and has denounced the Buddhist order that elevated him to guru status. "They took me away from my family and stuck me in a medieval situation in which I suffered a great deal," said Torres, 24, describing how he was whisked from obscurity in Granada to a monastery in southern India.
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That's some parallel to J. Krishnamurti and his relationship with the Theosophical Society.
Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India. In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist C.W. Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a "vehicle" for an expected World Teacher. As a young man, he disavowed this idea and dissolved the worldwide organization (the Order of the Star) established to support it. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals. He authored a number of books, among them The First and Last Freedom, The Only Revolution, and Krishnamurti's Notebook. In addition, a large collection of his talks and discussions have been published. At age 90, he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal.
There has been a "pick the reincarnated buddy from a bunch" ceremony for ages, and as long as the pick is from a pious population, the chosen one will lead the ordained life as prescribed for the role. So defecting from a life of buffing and stuffing would have been even more hilarious when a Scandinavian boy had been picked.
I hope Osel Hita Torres doesn't choose -- like J Krishnamurti -- to become his own guru.... Let him lead a normal life.
If he didn't like the years of indoctrination and worship, he might make an interesting movie on the religion of Lamaism, as ex-insider.
What is the most determinant feature of HHDL's public life?
"Exile": so no wonder much of their political energy goes toward networking, and the Hispanic avenue is an excellent deal towards South America, (one thing the Tibetans forget also ...the market is saturated in South America, there are already so many llamas there!) so the Little Senor Torres was a political choice and they overestimated the indoctrination penetrative power of their native land vajra into foreign hearts, good lesson.
Like it has been said about the Jews, a people without a land is very international connective, and there is no worse suffering than a Zionist Jew without a land ... while of course any other Jew, like any Catholic or Free Mason is fine in the country he was born.
