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02 June 2009 » buddhism, theocracy

Torres is now 24, is studying film in Madrid and has little love for the Tibetan Buddhism which deprived him of a normal childhood and adolescence. “They took me away from my family and stuck me in a medieval situation in which I suffered a great deal,” he says. Among things he grew up with no experience of were football, television, dancing, or any movies other than Eddie Murphy’s The Golden Child.

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