The Dalai Lama is the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people according to Tibetan Buddhism. Often referred to simply as "His Holiness" (HH), or "His Holiness The Dalai Lama", Tibetans usually call the Dalai Lama by the epithets Gyalwa Rinpoche, meaning "Precious Victor", or Yishin Norbu, meaning "Wish-fulfilling Jewel." "Lama" (meaning "teacher") is a title given to many different ranks of Tibetan Buddhist clergy.The Dalai Lama is believed to be the current incarnation of a long line of Tulkus, or Buddhist Masters, who have become exempt from the wheel of death and rebirth. These ascended masters have chosen of their own free will to be reborn to this place in order to teach humanity.Between the 17th century and 1959, the Dalai Lama was the head of the Tibetan Government, ...
The Dalai Lama thanked India on Monday for sheltering him and thousands of other exiled Tibetans who have been forced to flee their homeland in China over the last 50 years.The Tibetan exile community has been based in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamshala since 1959, when the Dalai Lama, their spiritual leader, escaped over the Himalayas following a failed uprising against Chinese rule."We are extremely grateful to this country for the past 50 years, for what the Indian government and the Indian public have done for us," the 73-year-old Buddhist monk told reporters in New ...
spetr - in poll Dalai Lama A top Chinese official warned on Friday that the central government in Beijing must approve the Dalai Lama's reincarnation, and would not recognise any candidate that it had not endorsed, the official Xinhua agency said.The Dalai Lama's succession has become a prickly issue, as the Nobel Prize winner ages and his health declines.He has suggested that his incarnation might be found outside China, or even that Tibetans themselves could order a vote on whether to continue an institution that once gave one monk both spiritual and temporal sway over Tibet.
Many Tibetans fear that the death of the ...
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday accused China of having killed hundreds of thousands of his people and transforming his Himalayan homeland into a "hell on earth.""These 50 years have brought untold suffering and destruction to the land and people of Tibet," the Dalai Lama said in a message marking the 50th anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against China."Having occupied Tibet, the Chinese communist government carried out a series of repressive and violent campaigns."These thrust Tibetans into such depths of suffering and hardship that they literally experienced hell ...
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Dalai Lama Pleads for Myanmar Monks to End Violence Amid Damning Rights Report
Dharamsala, HP, India, 22 April 2013 (By Muhammad Lila, ABC News) - Amid a damning new report showing official Myanmar complicity in ethnically cleansing entire Muslim towns and villages, the world's foremost Buddhist leader has a message to the Buddhist monks accused of spearheading the violence. Please stop. The recent remarks represent his most public condemnation of the Buddhist-led violence that has left hundreds dead and an estimated hundreds of thousands homeless. |
Golden Jubilee Celebrations at CST, Dalhousie and a Talk on ‘Educating the Heart’
Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh, India, 28 April 2013 - His Holiness the Dalai Lama was escorted from his car to the stage at the Central School for Tibetans, Dalhousie, this morning, sheltered from the sun by a ceremonial umbrella. With folded hands he greeted all who had come to attend the school’s 50th anniversary celebrations and took his seat. |
Speaking about ‘Non-Violence’ and the ‘Path to Peace and Happiness’ in Cambridge
Cambridge, England, 20 April 2013, His Holiness the Dalai Lama remarked what a nice sunny day it was to well-wishers on the way as he walked from St John’s to the Cambridge Union this morning to speak to the Global Scholars Symposium about Non-violence and Conflict Resolution. The twelve student organizers met him briefly first before Cameron Taylor introduced him to the audience and he began his talk |
Teaching the Thirty-seven Practices of a Bodhisattva in Dalhousie
Dalhousie, HP, India, 27 April 2013 - After an early start from Dharamsala, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s party made exceptionally good time on the drive to Dalhousie. The overcast sky en route was more than made up for by the brilliant purple blossoms of the burgeoning Jacaranda trees along the way. On arrival at the Circuit House in Dalhousie, the former British Hill Station first established in 1854, His Holiness was welcomed by representatives of the local Tibetan and Indian communities. |
