Dalai Lama
1935-
aka: Tenzin Gyatso (original name--Gyatso is
the Tibetan word equivalent to the Mongolian
"Dalai"), the 14th Dalai Lama, His Holiness the
Dalai Lama
1935-
aka: Tenzin Gyatso (original name--Gyatso is
the Tibetan word equivalent to the Mongolian
"Dalai"), the 14th Dalai Lama, His Holiness the
Dalai Lama
Tibetan picked as the reincarnation of the Dalai
Lama lineage
born in Tibet to common family
chosen as young child by the Tibetan Buddhist
priesthood in Lhasa to be the 14th Dalai Lama.
left Tibet 1959 as the Chinese Communist Party
military moved into the area--exiled in
Dharamsala, India.
has since become a media-icon for groups with
an anti-Chinese, anti-communist agenda.
Dalai and Lama are both Mongolian words, not
native Tibetan.
Dalai means "ocean", and Lama means
"Buddhist teacher"--usually the common English
translation is "Ocean of Wisdom".
Lama lineage
born in Tibet to common family
chosen as young child by the Tibetan Buddhist
priesthood in Lhasa to be the 14th Dalai Lama.
left Tibet 1959 as the Chinese Communist Party
military moved into the area--exiled in
Dharamsala, India.
has since become a media-icon for groups with
an anti-Chinese, anti-communist agenda.
Dalai and Lama are both Mongolian words, not
native Tibetan.
Dalai means "ocean", and Lama means
"Buddhist teacher"--usually the common English
translation is "Ocean of Wisdom".
| YouTube video of Dalai Lama, short clip, 00:35 |
| An organized religion is a dead corpse. Once perhaps there was a living school of meditation, of the science of going inwards, but that has disappeared long. Now only popes, Ayatollah Khomeini, Hindu Shankaracharya, Tibetan Dalai Lama – these people who don't know even ABC of meditation. And I give them open challenge. They can come here for an open discussion. All that they know is a parrotlike repetition of scriptures... – Osho The Last Testament, Vol. 3, ch. 15 |
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