Dalai Lama may come back as a blonde

Nicola Smith, Dharamsala (Sunday Times.co.uk); Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Totally, His Holiness is right on because, like, we have more fun! (Instagram Fashionistas)

I would, like, make the bestest Tibetan pope and king, I mean pop star and queen! (noisey)

I may come back as a blonde—or not at all, says Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama to appear at the Glastonbury Festival (Action Press/REX Shutterstock).

 

OMG! I can be 15th and play Glastonbury!

The [14th] Dalai Lama [Tenzin Gyatso] has declared he could return to earth as a “mischievous blonde woman” as the politically charged issue of his reincarnation [willed rebirth] looms large in the run-up to his 80th birthday in July.

 

Speaking before this year’s Glastonbury Festival, where his appearance will contrast with shows from bands such as The Who, the world’s most famous Buddhist monk mused about his next life.

 

If he came back as a woman, he said in an interview at his residence in northern India, “then her face must be very attractive” or “nobody pay much attention.”

 

Alternatively, he said, he might not be reincarnated at all. “In case majority of Tibetan people feel this centuries-old institution no longer relevant, then automatically cease,” he said. “In that case I will be last Dalai Lama...end it with a Dalai Lama quite popular. 

 

I'm doing this for Tibet not a pop star (FT).

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