Choosing Buddhist Lamas

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The head was

discovered to have turned from facing the south to the north-east

A senior Lama had a

vision, he saw the Tibetan letters, Ah, Ka and Ma float into view

He then saw a three

storied monastery with a turquoise and gold room and a path running from it, to

a hill

The senior Lama

then saw a small house with strangely shaped guttering

He was sure that

the letter Ah referred to Amdo, the Northeastern province, so it was there the

search party was sent

They realised Ka

must indicate the monastery Kumbum, which was indeed a three-storied building

with turquoise-roofed. They now only need to locate a house with peculiar

guttering

They then saw the

gnarled branches of juniper wood on the roof of his holiness’ parent’s house

They then asked to

stay the night whilst they did this the leader of the party disguise himself as

a servant, and played with the youngest child in the house

The child

recognized him and called out “Sera Lama, Sera Lama”. Sera was the leader of

the partys Rinpoche’s monastery

A few days later

they returned and with them bought objects that belong to the 13th

Dalai Lama

Every time they brought out a

different object he correctly identified them to the 13th Dalai Lama

by saying “it’s mine”

They were convinced that this

was the reincarnation