00:04At just two years old, the Dalai Lama recognized Jalu Dorje as a reincarnated Buddhist Lama.
00:12His Holiness, the 14 Dalai Lama, he laid the foundation when my parents asked him,
00:17what should we do? We don't have a necessary plan yet. He said, this day and age,
00:22it would be great to have an American education and to know English. That's the most important thing.
00:31Now 19 and graduated from high school in the U.S., he is halfway across the world in northern India
00:37at the Mindrolling Monastery. I left friends and family. I left, I guess, just a lavish lifestyle.
00:48I left my regular clothes and what I brought here was just these robes, some shoes, some Crocs,
00:57fantasy football magazine, and some of my electronics and headphones.
01:03Without knowing how to do rituals, it's impossible for a Lama to succeed, I guess. You need to know
01:09how to perform certain things. If you don't have the ritualistic tendencies, you can't just put a
01:16book on everyone's head and, you know, bust them like that, right?
01:22Recently, Dorje met his parents in Nepal to attend a series of sacred rituals and teachings
01:26over 12 days at the Shechen Monastery.
01:30I have my regular likes, my worldly likes, like family guy and American football, but I'm still,
01:37you know, my dad has trained me so much. And there's a religious point of me, religious side of me,
01:42I guess you would say, that allows me to have such a deep faith.
01:49Following several years of contemplation and asceticism, Dorje hopes to return to America to
01:53teach in the Minnesota Buddhist community.
01:58spread the four measurables, peace, loving kindness, equanimity and joy. It was definitely out of order,
02:06but just to spread the Buddha's word and his doctrine and his profound teachings as best as I can.
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