October 30, 1976 (12 pages)

Tin ae ae evs ? , cere feead — Nevada Cotanty Neagget — Saturday, October 30, 1976 — Page 5 His brother is the Dalai: bei but . he's just. ‘good old Sam' By ROBERT B. THOMPSON Associated Press Writer SCOTCH PLAINS, N.J. (AP) — His brother was a godking, but “right now,” says Lobsang Samden, “I’m night. custodian at the high school. “Whenever we have games, the night custodian has to *» make preparations, clean up after and lock the door. Of course, I clean up after classes, too. I work 3 to 11 p.m.,” said Samden, brother of the Dalai Lama, former ruler of Tibet and still spiritual leader of several million BudSam, as he is known, is 45 and lives with his wife and two children in a suburban home. He has been a monk, an -Official. in Tibet’s government, housekeeper at his brother’s palace in Lhasa, social worker in India, envoy to the United Nations Refugee Commission in Geneva and proprietor of a handicrafts store in Manhattan. He also had dinner with Nikita Khrushchev and Mao The odyssey of the family, which like all Tibetan families has no surname, began in ‘“‘a very small village, about 1,000 miles from Lhasa. and a two-year search began for the 14th Dalai Lama. The search ended at the farm home of 5-year-old Sam and his A delegation ‘of monks and government officials noticed Sam’s brother, one of four boys considered to have 8:00 2-Bullwinkle . 7-13-Hot Seat 5-10-12-Captain Kangaroo 44-Not for Women Only 9-Electric 11:30 3-Gong Show . 40-Banana Spi 5-10-12-Search for Tomorrow 8:30 2-Romper Room 7-13-Family Feud . 9-Infinity Factory 44-Newstalk 40-Lassie 11:55 3.NBC News in tomer — AFTERNOON VIEWING fair . ews és scare tiny Fer 7-A.M. San Francisco10-At Nine on Ten : 36-Movie 12-Price is Right 4-Dick —> eg 13-Truth or Consequences 44-Little Sie en's AS eed Tore 0 Lydon is Right ai 36-Yoga for Health 44-Leave it to Beaver 4-1 Love Lucy 1:00 —— 10:00 2-Movie ae . 3-Wheel of Fortune ae Club i 9-2 ng 44-Beverly Hillbillies 6-Electric Company Sore Center bet eaeonme: ae-Lett, Right and ad yy hy 2 . 44.Gomer Pyle, USMC World : — 2:00 Another ee °” 10.12.41 in the Faenity Mike s I a ange 85 $-10-12.CBS News 190. S112 Game 306 Cross Wits 2:30 ome 5.10-12-Young and Restless 3:002.44 Bugs sat F Neey “The regent took a trip south of Lhasatoaholylakeand prayed and meditated. A vision appeared. The lake showed our home area and a Tibetan letter. “He wrote a letter to the search group. They reported they had found a very unusual boy — my brother. He had been wearing rosary beads just like those of the 13th Dalai Lama,” Sam said, displaying his own rosary, around his neck under the brown and tan custodian’s uniform. “I was 7 when he became Dalai Lama,” Sam said. “I didn’t care, he’s my brother and we played every day. But everyone paid so much attention to him, I came to realize he was something special.” Sam does not now, nor has he since then, referred to his brother by name: ‘“He’s Dalai Lama.” In Lhasa, Sam was in a monastery for 13 years. He left at 20 to become government director of monastery afThe Chinese invaded Tibet in 1951, overrunning the Lama’s army. A coalition government was blished, but by 1958 “things became rough,” Sam His brother, family and about 130,000 Tibetans fled India in 1959. F about 1,000 Tibetans emigrate. ‘“They’re still there, the scenery is beautiful. Just like Tibet,” he said. He and his Tibetan wife, whom he married in India in 1962, emigrated to New York. He opened a Tibetan handicrafts store, and they lived with friends. ‘But New York got to be too much, too fast and too big for me,” he He met a real estate agent and within a week bought a 6:00 -2-Odd Couple : 3-5-10-12-News 5-Election ‘76 6-Getting On : 69-In Performance at Wolf Trap 26-intimety Factory 7-13-NFL Football The Houston Oilers 7-Movie: ‘‘The 7-13-Edge of Night Play the Colts at Baltimore. 13-To Be Announced 9-Music Appreciation 9-Zoom 10-12-Maude 10-Dinah! 36-Movie: “* id ‘ ! 31-Pelicula 4#-Star Trek 9:30 10-12-All’s Fair -4-Three Stooges bs 44-Emergency One! 9:55-36-News 3:30 2-Mickey 6:30 2-1 Love Lucy 3 "16 5-Marcus Welby, M.D. 3-5-10-12-News 5-10-12-Political Program 6-9-Liligs, Yoga and You 6-Law of the ‘70s 7. 7:00 2-Star Trek 9-To Be Announced 12-Dinah! . 3-KCRA Reports: Two initiatives 13-Merv Griffin 13-All My Children 5-News 36-Merv Griffin 6-9-MacNeil-Lehrer Report 10:30 5-10-12-Political Program 1 ion 44-Best of Groucho 4:00 2.40-Howdy Doody 12-Jecques Coustesu 11:00 2-Liers Cub and Son 40-FBI 3-5-7-10-12-13-News Street 12: 6Why Me?10-Mike 7:30 3-Hollywood Squares 13-My Three Sons Evening Monday 40-Love, Style 44-Flintstones 6éKVIE Magazine 44.Mary Hartman, Mery Hartman 4:30 2-Gilligan’s isiard 11:302-Love, American Style 3-Mary 10-Match Game PM 3-Johnny ~. $:Mike 5-10Wife + 13-Family Affair 7:55 7-Movie: “Deed Heat on a Maerry-Go 4#-Partridge 6:00 2-Movie: “Of Mice and Men’ Round” 44-Superman House on the Prairie 9-Election 76 $80 « 2 Pertridge Fernity yt 36-Movie: “Looking for Trouble’ 2-7-News 36-Movie: “A Guide for the Married Man’ 44-Derk Shadows 6-9-Mister 40-Movie: “The Prime of Miss Jean 12:002News i, : eNign Gallery ~ 36-My Favorite Martian 6:30 $-10-12-Phyilis 5:30 2-Bawltched : 7-10-13-News. ~ idealistic lawyer Make your own belt BUCKLES ee Choose from 4 styles of solid brass buckle blanks with matching leather inserts. 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Tin ae ae evs ? , cere feead — Nevada Cotanty Neagget — Saturday, October 30, 1976 — Page 5 His brother is the Dalai: bei but . he's just. ‘good old Sam' By ROBERT B. THOMPSON Associated Press Writer SCOTCH PLAINS, N.J. (AP) — His brother was a godking, but “right now,” says Lobsang Samden, “I’m night. custodian at the high school. “Whenever we have games, the night custodian has to *» make preparations, clean up after and lock the door. Of course, I clean up after classes, too. I work 3 to 11 p.m.,” said Samden, brother of the Dalai Lama, former ruler of Tibet and still spiritual leader of several million BudSam, as he is known, is 45 and lives with his wife and two children in a suburban home. He has been a monk, an -Official. in Tibet’s government, housekeeper at his brother’s palace in Lhasa, social worker in India, envoy to the United Nations Refugee Commission in Geneva and proprietor of a handicrafts store in Manhattan. He also had dinner with Nikita Khrushchev and Mao The odyssey of the family, which like all Tibetan families has no surname, began in ‘“‘a very small village, about 1,000 miles from Lhasa. and a two-year search began for the 14th Dalai Lama. The search ended at the farm home of 5-year-old Sam and his A delegation ‘of monks and government officials noticed Sam’s brother, one of four boys considered to have 8:00 2-Bullwinkle . 7-13-Hot Seat 5-10-12-Captain Kangaroo 44-Not for Women Only 9-Electric 11:30 3-Gong Show . 40-Banana Spi 5-10-12-Search for Tomorrow 8:30 2-Romper Room 7-13-Family Feud . 9-Infinity Factory 44-Newstalk 40-Lassie 11:55 3.NBC News in tomer — AFTERNOON VIEWING fair . ews és scare tiny Fer 7-A.M. San Francisco10-At Nine on Ten : 36-Movie 12-Price is Right 4-Dick —> eg 13-Truth or Consequences 44-Little Sie en's AS eed Tore 0 Lydon is Right ai 36-Yoga for Health 44-Leave it to Beaver 4-1 Love Lucy 1:00 —— 10:00 2-Movie ae . 3-Wheel of Fortune ae Club i 9-2 ng 44-Beverly Hillbillies 6-Electric Company Sore Center bet eaeonme: ae-Lett, Right and ad yy hy 2 . 44.Gomer Pyle, USMC World : — 2:00 Another ee °” 10.12.41 in the Faenity Mike s I a ange 85 $-10-12.CBS News 190. S112 Game 306 Cross Wits 2:30 ome 5.10-12-Young and Restless 3:002.44 Bugs sat F Neey “The regent took a trip south of Lhasatoaholylakeand prayed and meditated. A vision appeared. The lake showed our home area and a Tibetan letter. “He wrote a letter to the search group. They reported they had found a very unusual boy — my brother. He had been wearing rosary beads just like those of the 13th Dalai Lama,” Sam said, displaying his own rosary, around his neck under the brown and tan custodian’s uniform. “I was 7 when he became Dalai Lama,” Sam said. “I didn’t care, he’s my brother and we played every day. But everyone paid so much attention to him, I came to realize

he was something special.” Sam does not now, nor has he since then, referred to his brother by name: ‘“He’s Dalai Lama.” In Lhasa, Sam was in a monastery for 13 years. He left at 20 to become government director of monastery afThe Chinese invaded Tibet in 1951, overrunning the Lama’s army. A coalition government was blished, but by 1958 “things became rough,” Sam His brother, family and about 130,000 Tibetans fled India in 1959. F about 1,000 Tibetans emigrate. ‘“They’re still there, the scenery is beautiful. Just like Tibet,” he said. He and his Tibetan wife, whom he married in India in 1962, emigrated to New York. He opened a Tibetan handicrafts store, and they lived with friends. ‘But New York got to be too much, too fast and too big for me,” he He met a real estate agent and within a week bought a 6:00 -2-Odd Couple : 3-5-10-12-News 5-Election ‘76 6-Getting On : 69-In Performance at Wolf Trap 26-intimety Factory 7-13-NFL Football The Houston Oilers 7-Movie: ‘‘The 7-13-Edge of Night Play the Colts at Baltimore. 13-To Be Announced 9-Music Appreciation 9-Zoom 10-12-Maude 10-Dinah! 36-Movie: “* id ‘ ! 31-Pelicula 4#-Star Trek 9:30 10-12-All’s Fair -4-Three Stooges bs 44-Emergency One! 9:55-36-News 3:30 2-Mickey 6:30 2-1 Love Lucy 3 "16 5-Marcus Welby, M.D. 3-5-10-12-News 5-10-12-Political Program 6-9-Liligs, Yoga and You 6-Law of the ‘70s 7. 7:00 2-Star Trek 9-To Be Announced 12-Dinah! . 3-KCRA Reports: Two initiatives 13-Merv Griffin 13-All My Children 5-News 36-Merv Griffin 6-9-MacNeil-Lehrer Report 10:30 5-10-12-Political Program 1 ion 44-Best of Groucho 4:00 2.40-Howdy Doody 12-Jecques Coustesu 11:00 2-Liers Cub and Son 40-FBI 3-5-7-10-12-13-News Street 12: 6Why Me?10-Mike 7:30 3-Hollywood Squares 13-My Three Sons Evening Monday 40-Love, Style 44-Flintstones 6éKVIE Magazine 44.Mary Hartman, Mery Hartman 4:30 2-Gilligan’s isiard 11:302-Love, American Style 3-Mary 10-Match Game PM 3-Johnny ~. $:Mike 5-10Wife + 13-Family Affair 7:55 7-Movie: “Deed Heat on a Maerry-Go 4#-Partridge 6:00 2-Movie: “Of Mice and Men’ Round” 44-Superman House on the Prairie 9-Election 76 $80 « 2 Pertridge Fernity yt 36-Movie: “Looking for Trouble’ 2-7-News 36-Movie: “A Guide for the Married Man’ 44-Derk Shadows 6-9-Mister 40-Movie: “The Prime of Miss Jean 12:002News i, : eNign Gallery ~ 36-My Favorite Martian 6:30 $-10-12-Phyilis 5:30 2-Bawltched : 7-10-13-News. ~ idealistic lawyer Make your own belt BUCKLES ee Choose from 4 styles of solid brass buckle blanks with matching leather inserts. Assorted stamping tool designs. You might want to inlay the buckle ‘ blanks with exotic woods, stones, resins or any number of things. The possibilities are unlimited. Solid Brass Buckle Blanks ... 4.25 £0. Pre-Cut Leather Inserts .... 45¢ £0. Stamping Tools ......++. 2.75 £0.