Lobsang Ludd

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{{Character Data
|title= Lobsang Ludd
|photo=brothersmine.jpg|Lobsang and Jeremy by [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name= name Newgate Ludd and [[Jeremy Clockson]]
|age= early 20s in appearance
|race= Half [[Humans|human]], half [[anthropomorphic personification]]
|occupation= A thief (Ludd) and a clockmaker (Clockson)
|appearance=
|residence= [[Glass House]]
|death=
|parents= [[Wen the Eternally Surprised]] and [[Time]]
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status= unmarried
|books= [[Book:Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]
|cameos=
}}

:''This article is about the son of Time. For the character in The Long Earth, see [[Lobsang]]. For the Abbot of the [[Listening Monks]], see [[Abbot Lobsang]]''

Lobsang Ludd was born as one soul with two bodies from [[Wen the Eternally Surprised]] and [[Time]]. [[Nanny Ogg]] assisted at the birth, and witnessed the two souls being born. This can probably be explained by the whole universe being destroyed and recreated in an instant by Time. The two babies were put on the doorsteps of the [[Clockmakers' Guild]] and the [[Thieves' Guild]]. Naming conventions for the guilds resulted in the surnames Ludd and Clockson.

[[Jeremy Clockson|Jeremy]] became the best clockmaker of [[Ankh-Morpork]] and was chosen by the [[Auditors of Reality|Auditors]] to build the new [[Glass Clock]] which would stop time. A brilliant clockmaker, Jeremy succeeds. His brilliance does come at a price: all he cares about are clocks, he is not strong in social relations and has to take medicine (closely monitored by the guild) to behave in a socially accepted way. His [[Igor]] notices that his extreme sanity and orderliness is just another form of madness.

Newgate Ludd grows up entirely different, baffling people with his speed in stealing things, often small objects. On the run from persecutors he falls, but saves his life by performing the ''Stance of the Coyote''. This is noticed by [[Marco Soto]] who sends him to the [[History Monks]] to be trained, where he receives the name Lobsang. Mostly because he has such talents he's a lazy student who gets thrown into the care of sweeper [[Lu-Tze]]. They both head to Ankh-Morpork, supposedly to learn [[The Way of Mrs. Cosmopilite]], but really to find and destroy the Glass Clock. In the aftermath of the stopping of time, Lobsang meets [[Susan Sto Helit]] and together they find his "brother" who got wounded in the events. Their souls get reunited, but Lobsang is his preferred personality. Between him and Susan a romance blossoms.

After restoring the world and the flow of time, Lobsang takes over the job as Time so his parents can enjoy some time off. He meets [[Lu-Tze]] in a duel who beats him with [[Deja Fu]], finishing his education and making him a fully approved [[sweeper]].

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Abbot Lobsang

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{{Character Data
|title= Abbot Lobsang
|photo=
|name= Lobsang
|age= Unknown
|race= Human

|occupation= Leader of the [[Listening Monks]]
|appearance=

|residence=

|death= 54 times so far, as of ''Mort''
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
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|books= {{M}}
|cameos=
}}

Abbot Lobsang is the leader of the Listening Monks. This Abbot should not be confused with the [[Abbot]] of the [[History Monks]], nor with [[Lobsang Ludd]].

He makes a minor appearance when [[Mort]] goes on [[Death]]'s rounds during his training as Death's apprentice. He is the second soul Mort was ordered to collect, or, rather, reincarnate in a nearby village. For Abbot Lobsang has reincarnated 53 (well, it's ''54'' now) times, much as his fellow Abbot over in [[Oi Dong]] does (and other History Monks, like [[Shoblang]], do when they do finally die). However, unlike the History Monks, he seemed unable to recall his past lives while he was alive.

During his 54th life, he had been the 88th Abbott of the Listening Monks. Presumably several of those other 88 abbots were also him in a different life. It is unknown if he has been killed again since the time of ''Mort''.

== Annotation ==
The reference is to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobsang_Rampa T.Lobsang Rampa], who in the late 1950's and 1960's published eighteen books of autobiography and wisdom about his life as a Tibetan monk. He even carried on publishing even ''after'' he was identified as Cyril Henry Hoskins, a plumber from Devon who had never been to Tibet in his life, and who spoke only English.

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[[Category:Human characters|Lobsang,Abbot]]
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