As it turns out, his son's first name is the same as his own, but his second name is different.
(Everyday Tibetans have two given names, and no real family names like we have.)
"Why did you do that?", one of our coworkers was like.
"I did not give him the name," my one (male) (Tibetan) coworkers is like, 'The Dalai Lama gave it."
He then said that his mom knows someone who's one of the Dalai Lama's bodyguards, so when his wife was pregnant, he called his mom in India and asked her to ask the bodyguard to ask the Dalai Lama for a name, and the Dalai Lama gave him one.
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