Local Kalmyks look forward to Dalai Lama's visit
The Dalai Lama might not notice 15-year-old Alex Kalatschinow in the sold-out crowd tomorrow at the Kimmel Center.
But Kalatschinow - with his shoulder-length hair, torn jeans, a Mister Softee ringtone on his cell and Coors Light emblems on his boxers - is just the kind of person His Holiness hopes to reach on his daylong visit here: young Buddhists awash in American pop culture. »Read story
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(TOM GRALISH / Inquirer Staff Photographer)
Telo Tulku Rinpoche (center), head lama of Kalmykia, with Alene Gerel Tchourumoff (left) and Sean Tchourumoff.




