I recently traveled to Minneapolis for the 18th birthday of a us-born buddhis Lama happy birthday this is the last party before jalu dor joins a monastery in the foothills of the Himalayas that’s more than 7,000 miles from his home in Suburban Minneapolis you see dorg grew up a typical American teen playing football and listening to rap music but he has also spent much of his life training to become a monk the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Buddhist leaders recognized him when he was just a child as a reincarnated Lama his goal to become a leader of Peace Suess like the Dalai Lama or Gandhi or Nelson Mandela