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Buddhism is all about renunciation: To achieve nirvana, the Buddha teaches, one must crush desire. But one exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader -- the Karmapa Lama -- allegedly had an undeclared $1.35 million cash stash at his monastery in northern India.

If you can afford to spend $87,403 to buy the gifts of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" -- that's the Associated Press's calculation for the full tab, from the 12 drummers drumming down to the partridge in a pear tree -- then more power to you. But it might be a lot cheaper to make yourself happy. A...