The Dalai Lama Owns an Air Gun

A new book about the Dalai Lama claims the religious leader has a weakness for chocolate chip cookies.

The book, written by the Dalai Lama's friend and travelling partner, Victor Chan, is full of previously unknown titbits about the man.

It reveals he keeps an airgun near his bed to scare away hawks that eat the smaller birds he likes to feed. . . .