[Palden Gyatso with Lelaine Lau. Photo by Ben Kaufman]

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"If you think you're lost, you're lost. If you think you're a winner, you're a winner."

...said Palden Gyatso, as he was trying to explain to us the secret to his inner strength. What he was trying to say was that, contrary to his surroundings, he never thought that he was "losing" this game called life, and so carried on living even through oppression and hardship that most of us will never be able to picturalize. I hung onto his words (translated to us) like they would hold the portal to the secrets of life. And don't you know, it turns out that they do....

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