"Intelligent people have a danger. It�s easy for them to be boring."

Said His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the top lama in the Karma Kagyu order of Tibetan Buddhism.

His facial gestures were elastic and performative: bulging eyes, exaggerated grimaces and sighs, and double takes to accompany his own jokes. He wore square rimless glasses. �People think I�m intelligent, but I�m not so sure,� he said. �Intelligent people have a danger. It�s easy for them to be boring."