NEW YORK---Thousands of miles from his native Tibet, woodcarver Sampa Lhundup hunches over a table and practices his art, teasing symbols out of a piece of white cedar. Slowly, surely, steadily, an astonishingly elaborate and intertwined piece of art will emerge. Art that has attracted followers like the Dalai Lama, after Lhundup fled his country for a life in exile in India. Art that is now gaining him a reputation in Rochester and far beyond. Orders for his work come in from Boston, San Francisco and elsewhere, and a British woodcarving magazine recently featured his remarkable story. Lhundup, 41, has been in Rochester since 2011, thanks to Rochester's White Lotus Buddhist Center, a group that meets in, yes, a Baptist church. And while he has found a community here, his story is laced with sorrow. [link]
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