Atlanta Journal-Constitution: As an inquisitive and sometimes restless boy with the run of a thousand rooms in an ancient Tibetan palace, the Dalai Lama stumbled on objects left by his predecessor: a pocket watch, a brass telescope, two hand-cranked film projectors. In a world filled with prayer and meditation, the items, he says in one of his books, were a glimpse into the outside, “the telltale signs of a technological culture.” Read more

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