The NBC News cameraman who is infected with Ebola is the son of a renowned Tibetan monk responsible for bringing Buddhism to the West in the 1970s. His mother is an English aristocrat who was seduced at age 15 by the guru and married him at 16. When Ashoka Mukpo was just 8 months old, his father - Chögyam  Trungpa Rinpoche - announced that the boy was a 'tulku' - the reincarnation of a Tibetan Buddhist Lama. Mr Mukpo later traveled to Tibet, where he was enthroned and honored as the ninth reincarnation of Khamnyon Rinpoche, 'the Mad Yogi of Kham.'
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NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, 33, has been infected with Ebola in Liberia
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He is the son of Buddhist monk Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and  Lady Diana Judith Mukpo
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However, his biological father is Dr. Mitchell Levy, whom Lady Diana had been sleeping with at the time
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Ashoka's mother  married the Tibetan Buddhist lama when she was just 16
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Trungpa identified Ashoka as a 'tulku', a reincarnation of a Tibetan teacher
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NBC's Dr Nancy Snyderman and her crew have quarantined themselves for 21 days over fears they they might have contracted Ebola, as well
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Ashoka will be flown to a special CDC facility in Nebraska on Monday
The indulgent monk: @placeholder, seen here in the early 1970s with Lady Diana, was known for smoking, drinking and taking drugs.