http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama I'm watching an interview of him by Piers Morgan on CNN tonight. The guy is intelligent, witty, and can converse on a great many topics with ease. I would imagine he is a pleasure to be around. I've seen other interviews of him in the past. Always nice to see another one.
I read through a lot of it but was most surprised when reading about his succession and/or re-incarnation. I didn't know that there could be a choice for him to be or not to be re-incarnated or even what to be re-incarnated as. Fasinating reading.