By MICHELLE R. SMITH
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — A passion
for Liberia and the plight of its people drove Ashoka Mukpo to work there,
first to aid relief efforts and then as a photojournalist to tell its story.
But Mukpo has an unusual story of his own: As an infant, he was identified as a
reincarnated Tibetan lama, a role he chose not to pursue.
Mukpo, 33, was diagnosed Thursday with
Ebola and was being cared for at a treatment center in the Liberian capital,
Monrovia. His family said he was expected to leave there Sunday and arrive at
the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha Monday.
His mother, Diana Mukpo, comes from an
upper-class aristocratic family in Great Britain. At age 16, she left boarding
school in Scotland and married Tibetan Buddhist leader Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche,
who founded the Shambhala community that spread Buddhism in the West. She was
one of several wives.
They moved to Boulder, Colorado, in the
1970s and set up a Buddhist center, where notables such as Allen Ginsberg, Joni
Mitchell and William Burroughs studied and Trungpa advocated tantric sex.
After starting a family with Trungpa,
Mukpo's mother connected with another of her husband's followers, Dr. Mitchell
Levy, a Jewish man from New York.
Levy is Mukpo's biological father, Mukpo
said in an interview with the Dorje Shugden Buddhist website, but Trungpa
raised Mukpo as his own son.
When Mukpo was a few months old, he was
recognized by another Buddhist lama as the ninth Khamnyon Tulku, or
reincarnated lama, a spiritual leader.
Mukpo's older half-brother, Gesar Mukpo,
son of Diana Mukpo and Trungpa, also was named a tulku and succeeded his father
as leader of the Shambhala community after his death in 1987.
After he died, Mukpo's mother and Levy
married and moved to Providence. Levy is medical director of the intensive care
unit at Rhode Island Hospital and a professor and chief of pulmonary and
critical care medicine at Brown University's medical school. Mukpo's mother is
a horse trainer who owns a stable outside Boston.
Mukpo attended Moses Brown, a Quaker day
school in Providence. He received degrees from Georgetown University and the
London School of Economics.
His more traditional life sometimes caused
angst.
"When you're 15, you can't say,
'Dude, I'm a reincarnated spiritual master from the hills of Tibet, and my
father was this womanizing, drinking, Tibetan-crazy-wisdom genius,' without
people thinking you're weird," he said in the Dorje Shugden interview.
In 2002, he traveled to Tibet with his
parents to visit the monastery that's his family's spiritual home.
"Someone put a sick baby in front of
my face and asked me to blow on it. I did. I'm not going to be the guy who
says, 'This whole thing doesn't make sense for me, sorry!'" he said in the
interview. "Sometimes I do feel like it wasn't my decision to take this
title on, but now I feel like someone put me in the position of abandoning
it."
Mukpo ultimately decided not to embrace
his status as a reincarnated lama, although he's still a practicing Buddhist,
Levy said.
"He's proud of his street cred and
his intellectual credibility that he feels he's earned, and for him, the
reincarnated tulku, although a powerful tradition and a very important
tradition, I don't think he wanted to feel like he was being handed something
he didn't earn," Levy said.
Mukpo has worked at Human Rights Watch and
spent two years in Liberia working as a researcher for the Sustainable
Development Institute, a nonprofit shining light on concerns of workers in
mining camps outside Monrovia.
Levy said his son returned to Providence
in May and intended to pursue a career as a journalist. By August, he saw what
was happening in Liberia and decided to return, Levy said.
"His intention in going back was to
illustrate the tremendous burden and impact of the Ebola epidemic," Levy
said. "He sensed that the international community was isolating Liberia
rather than reaching out to help them."
Mukpo said he was filming inside and
around clinics and high-risk areas but doesn't know how he was infected, Levy
said.
Levy said he's been reassuring his son,
who is staying in an isolation tent and will receive better care in the U.S.,
that he'll recover.
Besides NBC, Mukpo has worked for Vice
News and other media outlets. In an opinion piece in Al Jazeera America on
Sept. 17, Mukpo wrote that in the last few weeks he had seen children close to
death turned away from treatment centers and heard stories of people waiting
days to be picked up by ambulances.
He called the American response to the
crisis underwhelming and slow.
"The most critical element of all is
time," he wrote. "Every life saved matters."
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Associated Press writer Denise Lavoie
contributed to this report from Boston.
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A passion for Liberia and the plight of its people drove Ashoka Mukpo to work there. (Paragraph 1, line 1)
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(the bold one as a subject) is doing the action. The tense of the sentence is
past tense
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Mukpo has an unusual story of his own. (Paragraph 1, Line
3)
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to paragraph 1 line 3, the sentence is active form beacuse Mukpo as an agent
and is doing action. The tense of this sentence is present tense.
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His mother, Diana Mukpo, comes from an upper-class aristocratic
family in Great Britain. (Paragraph 3, line 1)
Diana
mukpo as a subject and an agent who does the action. This sentence is present
tense and an active form.
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She left boarding school in Scotland. ( Paragraph 3, line
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2. The tense is past tense
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They moved to Boulder, Colorado, in the 1970s. (Paragraph
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sentence is active. The word “They” is doing action and as a subject. The tense
is past.
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He was identified as a reincarnated
Tibetan lama. (Paragraph 1, line 4)
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this sentence, the word “He” is receiving the action. This form is a passive.
2.
He was expected to leave there on Sunday.
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The
word “He” refers to Ashoka Mukpo. The word “He” also receiving the action. This
condition makes this sentence as a passive form
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He was recognized by another Buddhist lama
as the ninth Khamnyon Tulku. (Paragraph 7, line 1)
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word He refers to Ashoka Mukpo, this is a passive form because ashoka mukpo is
receiving the action
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He was being handed something he didn't
earn. (Paragraph 16, line 3)
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sentence is passive form because the subject is receiving the action and not an
agent
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He was infected. (paragraph 20, line 2)
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may not know the agent, but according to the article and contex of the
sentence, we know the agent is a virus. So the word “he” is receiving an action
from the agent. It makes this sentence become a passive form
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