new fortune.

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@@ -39223,3 +39223,13 @@ temporarily by others, one is exhausting the karmic potentials of negative
 karma which one has accumulated in the past.  So it serves two purposes.
   -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, from "Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a
      Buddhist Perspective"
+~
+The Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682) was perhaps the most mystical of all the
+Dalai Lamas in that he seemed to spend much of his time in a state of trance.
+During these trances many gurus of past ages, as well as mandala deities,
+buddhas, and bodhisattvas, would appear directly to him and give him secret
+transmissions, initiations, and teachings.  As the Thirteenth Dalai Lama says
+of the Great Fifth later in this chapter, he “was continually absorbed in
+the wisdom dance that experiences all appearances as pure vision.”
+  -- Glenn H.  Mullin, from "From the Heart of Chenrezig: The Dalai Lamas on
+     Tantra"