[BenLurkin]

Even stranger than that....http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/04/us-ebola-patient-ashoka-mukpo-liberia

[knak]

That’s just really weird.

[Bigg Red]

Wow! Thanks for posting that link. What a messed up family!

[caww]

Mukpo has worked at Human Rights Watch and spent two years in Liberia working as a researcher for ‘the Sustainable Development Institute’....

That’s Agenda 21 just FYI. So the guys a liberal you can be sure.

[ansel12]

As an infant, he was identified as a reincarnated Tibetan lama, a role he chose not to pursue.

When I was an infant I had zero job offers, not a stinking one, and this guy turned down "Lama"?

[JudyinCanada]

His family sounds as seedy, weird and screwed up as Obama’s.

[To Hell With Poverty]

VERY interesting...I got to know some Shambhalas in the 90's when I had a big interest in Buddhism. What really turned me off was learning that the "regent," the successor of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, was a gay man who had willingly infected unknowing young male students with HIV. There was controversy within the community about the fact that he was buried with high honor in his own stupa. As in, is it needless, harmful "attachment" to care about such a thing? I wonder if it was this man's half-brother that they were referring to here:

Mukpo’s older half-brother, Gesar Mukpo, son of Diana Mukpo and Trungpa, also was named a tulku and succeeded his father as leader of the Shambhala community after his death in 1987.

Oh, and one of them hit on me....brrrr. The whole group just seemed like a bunch of ironic egoists, smiling on the covers of the hip "Shambhala Sun" magazine like, or ooh I am so egoless...

[Jane Long]

Freaky family.