India s Dalai Dilemma

Think about the Dalai Lama.

like the Dalai Lama or Yoda?

The Dalai Lama lives in Dharamsala, India.

The Dalai Lama is not a devious terrorist.

A letter came through from the Dalai Lama saying,

Historically, the Dalai Lamas and Karmapa Lamas vied with each other for influence until the Dalai Lama s Gelug school gained ascendancy over the Kagyu order.

It seems to be the Dalai Lama s opinion as well.

One of the first letters was from the Dalai Lama.

The Dalai Lama often states that compassion is his best friend.

The Dalai Lama s curious position has complicated India s diplomatic dance with China.

The Dalai Lama has repeatedly said that he does not seek independence.

And the Dalai Lama and his entourage were forced to flee to India.

The Dalai Lama in this case gave his approval for purely political reasons.

At the age of four, he was installed as the 14th Dalai Lama.

The Dalai Lama has hosted him at the Gyuto monastery in Dharamsala, India, ever since.

Currently, she runs classes in Tibetan yoga and is a follower of the Dalai Lama.

A line that the Dalai Lama once said, he said, Love and compassion are necessities.

According to Tibetan tradition, however, the Dalai Lama has no role in selecting or endorsing a Karmapa.

I think the Dalai Lama should have heard that. I wish he'd been there to hear that.

The Dalai Lama was once in Portugal, and there was a lot of construction going on everywhere.

Think about the enormous moral authority of the Dalai Lama and it comes from his moral humility.

When a Chinese government security official recently accused followers of the Dalai Lama of organizing suicide attacks merely the most extreme of a barrage of allegations against the Dalai clique it was as though the Cultural Revolution were still raging.

A letter came through from the Dalai Lama saying, This is an amazing thing. Come and see me.

Because if compassion was a chore, nobody's going to do it, except maybe the Dalai Lama or something.

And it just so happened, on the fifth week, there was a public teaching by the Dalai Lama.

Chinese leaders blame Taiwanese leaders for cross straits tensions, and blame the Dalai Lama for all that ails Tibet.

They think Buddha was so boring, and they're so surprised when they meet Dalai Lama and he's fairly jolly.

It seems to be the Dalai Lama s opinion as well. But can that position be sustained only through state violence?

Visceral sparring matches are continuing, with the Dalai Lama recently describing Tibetans lives under China as a hell on earth.

His whole monastery was thrown into prison at the time of the uprising, when the Dalai Lama had to leave

His whole monastery was thrown into prison at the time of the uprising, when the Dalai Lama had to leave Tibet.

The Dalai Lama and his followers are given a respected place but told not to conduct political activities on Indian soil.

In the early 1950 s, the young Dalai Lama himself was impressed by Chinese reforms and wrote poems praising Chairman Mao.

That Chinese invasion was intended to teach India a lesson for its support of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan resistance.

So I snuck in a bunch of little wallet sized pictures of the Dalai Lama, and I would hand them out.

On the Hong Kong based search engine, Chinese internauts could read about Taiwan, the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, or the Dalai Lama.

And this is well, at the time I did this 10 years ago that was 36 years after the Dalai Lama had left.

Everybody has the wrong idea. They think Buddha was so boring, and they're so surprised when they meet Dalai Lama and he's fairly jolly.

China objected to President Barack Obama s receiving the Dalai Lama in the White House, as well as to the administration s arms sales to Taiwan.

Moreover, he is a committed believer in non violence, an admirer of the Dalai Lama, a disciple of the Mahatma Gandhi, and a sincere Buddhist.

The Dalai Lama s message of peace, love, and reconciliation has found adherents among Hollywood movie stars, pony tailed hippies, Irish rock musicians, and Indian politicians.

This has set the stage for the emergence of two rival Dalai Lamas, one chosen by China and the other by the Tibetan exile movement.

Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, has led experiments in cooperation with the Dalai Lama on effects of meditation on the brain.

and the Buddha the world's most enduring icon. Two and a half thousand years after his death the Buddha's message lives on. The Dalai Lama