9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) Monks and high school students attend the 18th birthday and enthronement ceremony for U.S.-born Buddhist lama, Jalue Dorje, in Isanti, Minn., on Saturday, Nov. 9, ...

But this was not an ordinary coming-of-age celebration. It was an enthronement ceremony for an aspiring spiritual leader who ...

It was an enthronement ceremony for an aspiring spiritual leader who from an early age was recognized by the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Buddhist leaders as a reincarnated lama. Young women in ...