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Jallu Dorje, an American high school football player, was recognized by the Dalai Lama as a reborn religious leader at the age of two. Monastery
Dorje recently celebrated his 18th birthday with family, friends and the Tibetan community.
He lives in Minnesota but will soon move to a monastery in northern India to study peace leadership.
A monastery is a place where religious workers, like monks and nuns, live and carry out their beliefs.
People in a monastery separate from society to follow their religious teachings.