Why is the dalai lama important
15 Things You Didn’t Know About The Dalai Lama
fifteen things you didn't know about the
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Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of
the Tibetan Buddhist people according to
the Gulag school of tibetan buddhism the
dalai lama is considered to be the
successor in a line of two looks who are
believed to be incarnations of a
Valiquette Apsara an entity who embodies
the compassion of all buddhas the name
is a combination between the mongolic
word dalai which means ocean or big and
the tibetan word bla ma which means
master or guru the institution of the
Dalai Lama is a relatively recent one
there have only been 14 dalai lamas in
the history of Buddhism and the 1st and
2nd Dalai Lama's were given the title
posthumously
but hold on here there are several
things we need to reveal and explain in
order for you to get the proper insight
on a matter so let's skip the intro and
talk about the 15 things you didn't know
about the Dalai Lama number one the
Dalai Lama exists because a
compassionate being has a special
relationship with the people of Tibet in
Central Asian Buddhist countries it is
believed that the entity of all Akitas
para a deity of compassion has a special
relationship with the people of Tibet it
decided to be reborn again to continue
its important work
thus reincarnating in benevolent rulers
and teachers according to some legends
its first incarnation in Tibet's
early kings and emperors such as song
stan campo but later on Tibetans
extrapolated it including the dalai
lama's in the reincarnation succession
line
it is the book of Kadam which is the
main text of the Kadampa school that
states nowadays that the dalai lama's
our reincarnation z' of eval Akitas fara
number two the Dalai Lama is an
important religious and political figure
the Dalai Lama is important for many
reasons he's a symbol of the unification
of Tibet and represents the Buddhist
values and traditions he is the
ecumenical figure that possesses
religious authority beyond religious
disparity and sectarian boundaries
furthermore from 1642 until 1705 the
dalai lama's or their regions headed the
Tibetan government in Lhasa the
government that led most of the Tibetan
Plateau in an attempt to complete
Tibet's sovereignty they did not manage
to obtain this sovereignty because it
was rejected by the Republic of China
we'll explain later on the extent of
this opposition number three the 14th
Dalai Lama comes from a modest family
the recent Dalai Lama is named Tenzin
Gyatso but his birth name was Lama
Sandip he was born on July 6 1935 and
was the fifth of 16 children seven of
whom died at a young age his parents
were farmers who raised sheep and grew
barley buckwheat and potatoes coming
from a very small village in Northeast
Tibet called talkto sir he was
identified as being the reincarnation of
the 13th Dalai Lama when he was only 2
years old and he began his intensive
religious training when he was 6 at the
age of 15 he assumed political power of
Tibet number 4 the Dalai Lama has been
living in exile since 1959 he assumed
power in 1950 but unfortunately in
October of the same year the People's
Republic of China invaded Tibet four
years later the Dalai Lama went to
Beijing in order to try to negotiate
peace with Mao Zedong China continued
Tibet suppression using the army and the
situation became more and more tensioned
leading to the 1959 Tibetan uprising the
Dalai Lama and his closest advisers
believed the Chinese government was
to assassinate him consequently he and
several thousand followers fled to
Dharamsala in northern India and
established the government of Tibet in
exile his current status in India is one
of a refugee number five the Dalai Lama
and the government of Tibet in exile
received funds from the CIA from 1959
until the 1970s the government set up an
exile in India received 1.7 million
dollars a year from the CIA the money
was meant to pay guerilla operations
against the Chinese the matter was
rather controversial considering Dalai
Lama's public stance in support of
non-violence on the other hand the Dalai
Lama himself was on the CIA's payroll
from the late 1950s until 1974
reportedly receiving fifteen thousand
dollars a month he received the money
personally but used most of it to fund
the government in exile activities
especially international lobbying huh so
we were naive to think that the Dalai
Lama was only concerned with spiritual
matters number six he's got a PhD in
Buddhist philosophy beginning his
education at the age of six he had to
learn logic Tibetan art and culture
Sanskrit medicine and Buddhist
philosophy the last being divided into
five other categories dealing with the
perfection of wisdom monastic discipline
metaphysics logic and epistemology or
the study of knowledge he completed the
geshe-la ramp I degree or doctorate of
Buddhist philosophy when he was 25 what
is interesting is the structure of his
final exams in the morning he was
examined by 30 scholars on Logic in the
afternoon he debated with 15 scholars on
the subject of middle path and in the
evening 35 scholars tested his knowledge
on the Canon of monastic discipline and
the study of metaphysics
His Holiness passed the examinations
with honours
number seven the 14th Dalai Lama was the
first one to travel west and not only
did he first travel west but he also
used his peacefulness and charisma to
draw considerable support for Buddhism
and the Tibetan resistance movement he
met and talked with many Westerners and
has visited the United States Canada
Western Europe United Kingdom the Soviet
Union Mongolia Greece Japan Thailand
Malaysia Singapore Indonesia Nepal Costa
Rica Mexico Australia and so on he has a
habit of not only meeting state leaders
but also the religious leaders of the
countries he's visiting at this point we
could easily say he's a role model when
it comes to diplomacy number eight he's
worked with the United Nations on the
question of Tibet soon after his exile
began the 14th Dalai Lama considered it
would be necessary that his efforts be
joined with those of the most important
international organization the UN their
collaboration led to the adoption of
three resolutions by the General
Assembly in 1959 1961 and in 1965 during
all this in 1963 his holiness
promulgated a draft constitution for
Tibet which assures a democratic form of
government in the last two decades his
holiness has set up educational cultural
and religious institutions which have
made major contributions toward the
preservation of the Tibetan identity and
especially its rich heritage he has
given many teachings and initiations
including the rare Kalachakra initiation
which he has conducted more than any of
his predecessors number nine the Dalai
Lama stands for religious harmony and by
that he doesn't mean that everyone
should convert to Buddhism on the
contrary he believes it's best to keep
the religion one was born into at the
same time he explains that since in
these modern times we experience
migration waves and access to each
other's culture and religion maybe it
would be better to take time to learn
the good aspects of other religions
not tolerating someone else's religion
should suffice
he believes that several factors
including the possibility to travel and
get established anywhere in the world
has made the world turn into a community
a multicultural multi-religious singular
entity number 10 the 14th Dalai Lama was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 he
was awarded the prize for his nonviolent
efforts for the liberation of Tibet and
his concern for global environmental
problems he had shown willingness to
compromise and seek reconciliation
despite brutal violations the Norwegian
Nobel Committee emphasized the
appreciation for his insistence in
advocating for peaceful solutions based
upon tolerance and mutual respect in
order to preserve the historical and
cultural heritage of his people
according to the press release in the
opinion of the committee the Dalai Lama
has come forward with constructive and
forward-thinking proposals for the
solution of international conflicts
human rights issues and global
environmental problems do you know which
other political figure dedicated their
life to charity and to receive the Nobel
Peace Prize mother Teresa who got it in
1979 exactly 10 years before the 14th
Dalai Lama why don't you check out our
15 things you didn't know about Mother
Teresa video for a detailed insight on
the matter number 11 the Dalai Lama's
got an unexpected position on abortion
first thing first we need to explain
that Buddhists believe that life should
not be destroyed but they regard causing
death as morally wrong only if the death
is caused deliberately or by negligence
therefore traditional Buddhism rejects
abortion because it involves the
deliberate destroying of a life however
when asked about the matter the Dalai
Lama has shown a nuanced position on
abortion explaining that in spite of the
traditional view there are cases in
which abortion should be considered
ethically acceptable it could be the
case that the unborn child is going to
be disabled or that the birth could risk
the life of the mother he insists on the
fact that these exceptions can
only be determined on a case-by-case
basis number 12 the Dalai Lama advises
people to become vegetarian the Dalai
Lama has said people think of animals as
if they were vegetables and that's not
right so he advocates that people at
least try to limit their meat
consumption if turning vegetarian is
impossible to him this is a matter of
compassion and he seems to be trying to
make this world a more gentle and
compassionate one one living thing at a
time
however he himself is not a vegetarian
any more at some point in his life he
had to give up the vegetarian lifestyle
because he contracted Hepatitis and
became very weak after he got better he
tried switching back to a vegetarian
diet but this attempt was unsuccessful
so nowadays he's just focused on
limiting the consumption of meat number
13 the Dalai Lama has referred to
himself as a Marxist strongly
criticizing capitalism for only being
concerned with gain and profitability
the Dalai Lama explained that he
considers the economic system of Marxism
to be founded on moral principles he
believes have a distribution of wealth
the focus on equality and the concern
for the working class which is the large
majority our signs that such a system is
fair he also emphasized that such a
system takes care of those who are
underprivileged and in need to some
extent however talking about the flaws
of the historical Marxist regimes he
pointed out that their main problem was
that they placed too much emphasis on
destroying the ruling class and not
enough on compassion number 14 the 14th
Dalai Lama is yet to decide if he will
reincarnate in September 2011 the Dalai
Lama retired from the central Tibetan
administration in a statement he issued
the same day he explained that when he
turns 90 he will consult the high Lamas
on the Tibetan Buddhist traditions and
the Tibetan public before he decides
whether the institution of the Dalai
Lama will continue or not the idea is
that the Dalai Lama has one specific
and that at this point is somehow
believed to be accomplished thus some
consider it to be time for the Tibetan
people to choose their leader through
democratic elections in the meantime
China who has a deep understanding of
what democracy is enacted a law
foreboding the Dalai Lama to be reborn
outside of China number 15 if he decides
to reincarnate the lamas will have to
follow some signs to find him first
thing first the Dalai Lama searches and
selects a pension Lama the person
responsible for finding the reincarnated
Dalai Lama when the time comes
he and his pairs will search for a boy
who has been born around the same time
as the death of the last Dalai Lama they
will follow a series of signs including
dreams the direction of the smoke if the
previous cell Obama was cremated and so
on once located the boy will be
presented a number of artifacts among
which are a number of items that belong
to the deceased Dalai Lama if the boy
chooses the items that belong to the
previous Dalai Lama this is seen as a
sign in conjunction with all the other
indications that the boy is a
reincarnation and that's all for today
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16 if he hadn't become a monk the 14th
Dalai Lama would have been an engineer
yes he said it himself the Dalai Lama
loves working with mechanical things
back in 1950 there were only four cars
in all of Tibet three of which belonged
to the 13th Dalai Lama the 14th Dalai
Lama Tenzin Gyatso loved working with
their engines and trying to drive them
furthermore he spent a great deal of
time with his telescope and he also
enjoys taking watches and small machines
apart and putting them back together
again it's probably a lot easier to be
that focused and patient when you've
reached the highest human levels of
happiness maybe we should try it out as
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