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- "His Holiness the Karmapa and me"
- Summary: The story of how the omniscience of an 18-year-old lama led me to donate my liver.
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Review of His Holiness the Karmapa and me
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Posted on September 21, 2004 at 06:48 PM
It wasn't so much about HH the Karmapa as it was about the author's own process of coming to donate a part of his body to a friend, and the consequences for himself - unexpected - of having done so. A window into the inside of this decision process and the reactions of others as well as his own reactions.
I would like to hear this one - a 4 I would say. It describes well the intersection between secular and religious thinking, and the generosity driving the decision provides a very personal counterpoint to much of the current public discourse.
Well produced and paced also.