A teenage Buddhist lama recently blessed thousands at a monastery in the Himalayan foothills. Just six months earlier and half a world away, he was pulling all-nighters to play Madden NFL on his Xbox at his home in a Minneapolis suburb. Both are home to Jalue Dorje. Dorje grew up a typical American teen, loving rap music, video games and football. He’s also an aspiring spiritual leader — recognized from an early age by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnated lama. The Associated Press began following his story several years ago when he was 14. Now he’s 19. He graduated from high school last year and moved to northern India to join the Mindrolling Monastery, about 7,200 miles (11,500 kilometers) from his home in Columbia Heights. The US teen’s life today Recently, he came to Nepal to meet his parents, who flew from Minneapolis, and attend sacred rituals and teachings conducted by the abbot of Shechen Monastery. Located near the 1,500-year-old Boudhanath stupa, it is one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most sacred sites.…