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发帖数: 1865 | 1 政客 ? 大師 ?
NEW YORK—An angry and visibly intoxicated Dalai Lama was arrested early
this morning after assaulting a photographer outside the newly revamped
Studio 54 discotheque in Manhattan.
The Dalai Lama was arrested on assault and battery charges after punching
and kicking a New York Post photographer outside Studio 54. Shouted
the enraged Buddhist: "You want to eat camera, picture boy?"
Charged with assault and battery, the Buddhist leader, whose real name is
Gejong Tenzin Gyatso, was released on $1,500 bail. The incident marked his
third brush with the law in as many weeks.
According to witnesses, the Precious Sovereign, 61, who had been drinking
heavily all evening, punched and kicked New York Post photographer Mike
Pallas several times after Pallas attempted to take his picture exiting the
famed disco.
"As soon as he saw that camera, he just went off," said bouncer Todd Gehr,
who was guarding the exit at the time. "I grabbed him by his saffron prayer
robe and pulled him off [Pallas]. He tried chanting for a minute, but then
more flashbulbs started popping, and he completely lost it again."
Witnesses say that instead of backing down, Pallas made the mistake of
ridiculing the central belief of Lamaist Buddhism—namely that, through
reincarnation, the same soul has occupied the bodies of 14 successive rulers
.
"That did it," Studio 54 patron Larry Hoffman said. According to Hoffman,
the Dalai Lama then yanked Pallas' camera away and wielded it threateningly
at him, shouting, "You like picture? You want to eat camera, picture boy?"
The Dalai Lama spent seven hours in a Queens, NY, jail cell before being
released on $1,500 bail.
Signs of trouble came hours earlier, when the 14th religious and temporal
ruler of Tibet shouted repeated requests for "Bush! I want to hear plenty
more Bush!" When the club DJ responded by playing KC and the Sunshine Band's
"Shake Your Booty," the monk threw a shotglass through the control booth
and invited the DJ to "step outside and kiss the five fingers of
enlightenment."
In addition to the charges against him, the Dalai Lama was cited for
resisting arrest. At first, he refused to give his real name, claiming to be
"the protector, the emanation and the presence on earth of Chen-re-zi," the
Buddhist personification of divine compassion. "And if you not believe," he
added, "you let me out of these cuffs and you get one-way ticket to Nirvana
plenty quick."
When asked where he was born, he responded, "In 1936 in Chhija Nangso, Tibet
... and also in 1876 in Lhasa, Tibet... and also in Nai-tung, Tibet—"
before being gagged and taken away.
Two weeks ago, the Tibetan leader was arrested for driving while intoxicated
, though his lawyer maintained his client's high spirits were due solely to
a "very satisfying night of meditation." Last Friday, he was stopped in his
1994 Lexus by a New Jersey state trooper for "making gestures to a police
official that had no connection with the Noble Eightfold Path." Both times
he was released on bail. |
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