14th Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama is well traveled and has been forced to seek exile in India running away from the dictatorship of the Chinese government in Tibet. The Dalai Lama has met world’s religious leaders like the pope who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church as well as world’s political leaders in Asia, Europe, and North America including three sitting American presidents. His wide travel and religious knowledge has resulted in his making a stand which calls for religious harmony and unity as he believes this is a great stride in world peace and offers a chance for diversity. He believes that this will make all people happy which is the ultimate teaching of Buddhism as well as other religions about life. “A society that prides in many religions should have a rich culture tapped from this diverse resources as well as be a sources of refuge. Respect for each other’s religion is key to ensure harmony and avoid anarchy in such a society. This does not mean that one’s faith in his education should diminish rather we should aspire to accommodate those of a different religious view. ” (Dalai Lama) Conclusion The ultimate reason of religion is to understand the universe and the ineffable. To do so one must be affiliated to a religion and have faith in the said religion. However this association…

administrations adherence to previous repressions and persecutions. Although China has attempted to make gains in Tibet, the results, however, have caused a strain in relations between the Tibetans (ethnic majority) and the Han Chinse (ethnic minority). Discrimination in Tibet is rampant due to China requiring that education for the Tibetan youth be in Chinese, a foreign tongue. This combined with a lack of Tibetan secondary education opportunities prompted little incentive to higher Tibetan…

succession of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama remains unanswered and left with many questions. In the institution of the Dalai Lama, the succession of the Dalai Lama can be done through upholding the Buddhist tradition in Tibet, which evolved into the unique Tibetan tradition of recognizing the reincarnation of the scholar adepts who could serve both the Dharma and sentient beings in a major way. The main purpose of the reincarnation is to continue the predecessor’s unfinished work to serve the…

classes [2]. In very rare cases is this true, but from what we’ve seen in history, the most memorable disputes are from unsatisfied middle and upper classes. According to Eric Greitens in his award-winning The Heart and the Fist, the greatest threat to a civilization’s political authority are the socioeconomic classes that are fortunate enough to contemplate the issues confined in the government [5]. Most lower-end economic classes are usually too concerned about their survival rather than the…

INTRODUCTION ADD INTERESTING FACT AND TRANSITION The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso was born on 6 July 1935, to a farming family, in northeastern Tibet. At the age of two, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the previous 13th Dalai Lama, and was sent away from his parents to began his monastic education at the tender age of six. After completing his education in 1950, Tenzin Gyatso assumed full political power over Tibet, but in 1959, he was forced into exile in India after the Chinese…

Nonviolence is a biggest weapon in the world, one can use it to make a big change. Dalai lama is one of the most famous leader who use nonviolence against China for making Tibet free. Dalai Lama, is a title given to spiritual leaders of the Tibetan people. They are monks of the Gelug or Yellow Ha school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism founded by Je Tsongkhapa. The Dalai Lama title was created by Altan Khan, the Prince of Shunyi granted by Ming Dynasty, in…

With the learnings in diffenert stage of his study, including the Diploma in Tibetan Traditional Thangka Painting(Rossi&Rossi, 2015),this painting is a combination of Thangka and Tibetan carpet, which is the combination of Tibetan traditional and contemporary art(METmuseum, 2013). Thangka is a traditional painting about Buddhist on cotton or silk, for meditation or for prayers to make request, or even act as a decoration(buddhanet,1996). The eleven headed Tibetan Buddhist is refering to…

warns “Various Western ‘readings’ of Buddhism… [often] tell us more about changing fashions in the West than they do about Buddhism” (119). Can the fundamental tenets of Buddhism coexist with a secular worldview? Attempts to answer this question have filled many books (and so are well beyond the scope of this paper) but here I argue that based on the sutras attributed to him, Siddhartha Gautama—the historical buddha—was an early advocate for secular values of skepticism and freethought, even in…

You should also do your best in situations. Brian Tracy once said “ The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural overgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life”. And Abraham Lincoln once said “ you can't escape responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today”. Responsibility is a Fantastic way to show character and respect. Compassion is a deluxe way to show character. A Great way show compassion,…

was Tibet a part of China. The current Tibetan culture has been formed since the time the Lama culture was established in Tibet. The Tibetan form of Buddhism came from India when the Bodhisattva left from South India to preach Buddhism to the Tibetans. Buddhism became a state religion and was spread in Tibet by the edict of the Dalai Lama. The Dalai became the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism was called upon to assume full political power as well. The Dalai Lama to protect Tibetan culture…