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Også HAN ofrer naturligvis børn, for at fremme sin religion:

As a toddler, he was put on a throne and worshipped as by monks who treated
him like a god. But the boy chosen by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnation of a
spiritual leader has caused consternation - and some embarrassment - for
Tibetan Buddhists by turning his back on the order that had such high hopes
for him.

Instead of leading a monastic life, Osel Hita Torres now sports baggy
trousers and long hair, and is more likely to quote Jimi Hendrix than
Buddha.

Yesterday he bemoaned the misery of a youth deprived of television, football
and girls. Movies were also forbidden - except for a sanctioned screening of
The Golden Child starring Eddie Murphy, about a kidnapped child lama with
magical powers. "I never felt like that boy," he said.

He is now studying film in Madrid and has denounced the Buddhist order that
elevated him to guru status. "They took me away from my family and stuck me
in a medieval situation in which I suffered a great deal," said Torres, 24,
describing how he was whisked from obscurity in Granada to a monastery in
southern India. "It was like living a lie," he told the Spanish newspaper El
Mundo. Despite his rebelliousness, he is still known as Lama Tenzin Osel
Rinpoche and revered by the Buddhist community. A prayer for his "long life"
still adorns the website of the Foundation to Preserve the Mahayana
Tradition, which has 130 centres around the world. The website features a
biography of the renegade guru that gushes about his peaceful, meditative
countenance as a baby. In Tibetan Buddhism, a lama is one of a lineage of
reincarnated spiritual leaders, the most famous of which is the Dalai Lama.

According to the foundation biography, another leader suspected Torres was
the reincarnation of the recently deceased Lama Yeshe when he was only five
months old. In 1986, at 14 months, his parents took him to see the Dalai
Lama in Dharamsala, India. The toddler was chosen out of nine other
candidates and eventually "enthroned".

At six, he was allowed to socialise only with other reincarnated souls -
though for a time he said he lived next to the actor Richard Gere's cabin.

By 18, he had never seen couples kiss. His first disco experience was a
shock. "I was amazed to watch everyone dance. What were all those people
doing, bouncing, stuck to one another, enclosed in a box full of smoke?"