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Kelsang Nyema, of Smithtown, became the Kadampa Meditation Center's resident teacher in August. PRISCILLA GARSTON The Kadampa Meditation Center in Water Mill. DANA SHAW The Kadampa Meditation ...

Jalue Dorje knew it would be the last big party before he joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills — thousands of miles from his home in a Minneapolis suburb, where he grew up like a typical ...

Jalue Dorje knew it would be the last big party before he joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills -- thousands of kilometers from his home in a Minneapolis suburb, where he grew up like a ...

Hundreds attended the event that would be the last party before Jalue Dorje joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills. (AP Video/Jessie Wardarski) U.S.-born Buddhist lama, Jalue Dorje, right, and a ...

Jalue Dorje knew it would be the last big party before he joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills -- thousands of miles from his home in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights ...

Jalue Dorje knew it would be the last big party before he joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills — thousands of miles from his home in a Minneapolis suburb, where he grew up like a typical ...

ISANTI, Minn. (AP) — The young Buddhist lama sat on a throne near an altar decorated with flowers, fruits and golden statues of the Buddha, watching the celebrations of his 18th birthday in ...

The Tibetan Buddhist community in Minnesota recently celebrated a special spiritual milestone—honoring 18-year-old Jalue Dorje as a reincarnated lama, recognized by the head of Tibetan Buddhism ...