Tim McGirk, a former Time magazine bureau chief in South Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, has written frequently on Tibet. He researched this story during a Knight Luce Fellowship for Reporting on Global Religion at the University of Southern California. He is currently writing a novel and helping to run the Investigative Reporting Program at U.C. Berkeley.

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  February 2013: Reincarnation in Exile
  What happens when a monastic system is forced, after eight hundred years, to encounter the temptations of the twenty-first century?