The Buddhism Of Tibet

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This is a concept familiar in Western legal reasoning, encapsulated in terms such as “social welfare” and “the greater good.” However, I wonder if this is the actual meaning of the Dalai Lama’s words in the context of Buddhist presuppositions. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. Between 1959 and 1977 almost all traces of Buddhism were destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people were driven into exile. There was the shepherd whose master owed him a reimbursement in yuan and wheat but refused to pay.

The 14th Dalai Lama: Buddha of Compassion

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This decision cites a precedent set by the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who instituted a system of selecting the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama by means of a lottery which utilised a golden urn with names wrapped in barley balls. On a recent visit to his monastery in Sidbhari, a village near the Dalai Lama's exile home in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala, the Karmapa Lama tossed around ideas for which team might win the World Cup — not exactly the subject that first comes to mind when you think monastery and Dalai Lama. "Some people were saying Argentina would win but now they have lost and are gone so now people are saying Germany," said the Karmapa.

Ancient Wisdom: Modern World

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II experiences on his character, it actually seems as if it was Harrer's association with his friend, played by David Thewlis, that had the more profound effect. The journey took him and his people through Assam and eventually they ended up in Dharamsala. Realize that higher teachings are worthless if you can't even practice the most basic teachings, such as ethics (avoiding the ten non-virtuous actions). In our practice of the Dharma, we seek to transcend the situation in which we all find ourselves: victims of our own mental afflictions- such as attachment, hatred, pride, greed, and so forth-are mental states that cause us to behave in ways that bring about all of our unhappiness and suffering.

His Holiness The Dalai Lama: In My Own Words

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Yet I find encouragement from his own openness to interacting with the Christian tradition and from his willing to learn from Christians and the Christian faith. 2 Further... Some other notable awards he has received: Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Rutgers University on September 25, 2005. Excerpted from A Handbook of Tibetan Culture Asahara has been a close associate of the Dalai Lama since meeting him at a ceremony of the Ashun-Su sect in Tokyo.

Mahamudra: The Moonlight -- Quintessence of Mind and

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In 1962, we circulated the essence of the draft constitution; there I mentioned this clause on the power of the Dalai Lama. Anyway I regard Dorje Shugden as the protector of the lineage as passed on by Je Tsongkhapa and received recently by the precious teachers Je Phabonkhapa and Trijang Dorjechang. When he passed away, he didn’t give final authority to a single person, but to a group of monks. So I jumped at the chance to attend a conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that His Holiness would be presiding over.

The Dalai Lamas: The Institution and Its History (Emerging

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Rather, they felt that since the Dalai Lama is a national institution it was up to the people of Tibet to decide whether the Dalai Lama should reincarnate. [220] The government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has claimed the power to approve the naming of "high" reincarnations in Tibet, based on a precedent set by the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty. [221] The Qianlong Emperor instituted a system of selecting the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama by a lottery that used a Golden Urn with names wrapped in clumps of barley.

Tenzin Gyatso: The Early Life of the Dalai Lama

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What’s your response to its misuse of Buddhism? Now it is possible for both men and women to get doctorates in Buddhist studies. Ganden Phodrang, situated as it was within the monastic complex of Drepung, no longer befitted the purposes of the new state, since Drepung could not be considered the political capital of Tibet. Contact Website: http://lv.dalailama.ru/ Teaching in Milan, Italy on October 21 & 22: On October 21, His Holiness will give a one-day teaching on The Three Principal Aspects of The Path (lamtso namsum) and Tsongkhapa's In Praise to Dependent Origination (tendrel toepa) organized by The Ghe Pel Ling Institute for Tibetan Buddhist Studies.

Tenzin Gyatso: The Dalai Lama (World Leaders Past & Present)

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If we ask how attachment and anger arise, 3 the answer is that they are undoubtedly assisted by our grasping at things to be true and inherently real. These types of mind cannot be understood in isolation from their physiological bases. Tenzin began his religious education at age 6. After the Chinese invasion, the Dalai Lama, through his Central Tibetan Administration, made appeals in the United Nations for the rights of Tibetans.

Insight from the Dalai Lama: 2007 Day-To-Day Calendar

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H. the Dalai Lama, the most prominent contemporary figure in Tibetan Buddhism, teaches regularly on a variety of topics ranging from entry level lectures to profound oral commentaries on seminal texts covering subjects such as Wisdom, Compassion, Ethics, Nature of the Mind, Buddhism and Science, and Meditation and Psychotherapy. His topics include the welfare of Tibetans, non-violence, environment, Buddhism and science, Women's rights, astronomy, physics, reproductive health, cognitive neuroscience, and so on.

Understanding the Dalai Lama: A Simple, Smiling Monk

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Although many were hoping to replace him as the leader of the movement when he died, instead he announced that all followers must put their trust not in another leader but in three things: the Buddha, the community of monks (sangha), and the teachings of the Buddha (dharma). The people of Tibet still consider him to be their spiritual and political leader. By feeling compassion for others -- seeing even our enemies in a new light -- we can ease our own stress and anxiety, the Dalai Lama told a crowd of thousands, gathered for his visit to Atlanta in October 2007.