In Rumtek, a generation of Buddhist monks loses hope
January 22, 2013  00:41
In their 13th year of waiting for their spiritual leader, the Tibetan Buddhist monks at a mountainside monastery in Sikkim are starting to give up hope.

The person the monks are eager to see is Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 27-year-old man deemed to be the leader of the Kagyu order of Buddhism, one of the four main schools in Tibetan Buddhism.

The inability to meet him is nothing less than a tragedy for these Tibetan Buddhists.

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