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Biography

Name: Dalai Lama
Variant Name: Lhamo Thondup
Birth Date: July 6, 1935
Place of Birth: Taktser, Tibet
Nationality: Tibet
Gender: Male
Occupations: religious leader

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Biography of Dalai Lama
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The Dalai Lama (Lhamo Thondup; born 1935), the 14th in a line of Buddhist spiritual and temporal leaders of Tibet, fled to India during the revolt against Chinese control in 1959 and from exile promoted Tibetan religious and cultural traditions. The...


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Dalai Lama Quotes
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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day. This is my simple religion. There is no need for...


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Dalai Lama Summary
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The Dalai Lama is the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan Buddhist peoples, by whom he is regarded as the earthly manifestation of Chenrezi, the bodhisattva ("incarnating deity") of compassion. Each Dalai Lama is regarded as...
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Dalai Lama TIBETAN RELIGIOUS LEADER1935 . Hicks, Roger, and Ngakpa Chogyam. Great Ocean: An Authorized Biography of the Buddhist Monk Tenzin Gyatso His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. New York: Penguin, 1990. Norbu, Dawa. Tibet: The Road Ahead....
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Dalai Lama : Buddhist Terms
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The spiritual and temporal Head of Tibet. Regarded as the earthly manifestation of Chenresi, the ‘Precious Protector’, the Tibetan term for Avalokiteshvara. The word Dalai, ‘great Ocean’ (pronounced Dāté, to rhyme with...
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Dalai Lama Summary
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DALAI LAMA, title of the spiritual and formerly political leader of the Tibetan people, is a combination of the Mongolian dalai ("ocean"), signifying profound knowledge, and the Tibetan blama ("religious teacher"). The title...
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Dalai Lama Information
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This article is about the Dalai Lama lineage. For information on the 14th and current Dalai Lama, see Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama. For the Rammstein song, see Dalai Lama (song). Gendun Drup, 1st Dalai Lama Tibetan Buddhists believe that the...


News and Journals
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Dalai Lama calls for Tibetan referendum
11/27/2007: 907 words, approx. 3 pages
The Dalai Lama said Tuesday the Tibetan people will vote on a new system of leadership before he dies, as Tibetan Buddhists grapple with ways to prevent their spiritual leaders from falling under Chinese control.China has ruled the Himalayan nation of Tibet with a heavy...
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Dalai Lama becomes Emory professor
10/22/2007: 385 words, approx. 1 pages
The Dalai Lama was formally installed as a professor at Emory University on Monday as Tibetan monks wearing moon-shaped yellow hats chanted and played cymbals, gongs and horns.The exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, whose face is recognized around the world, now is the bearer of...
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Dalai Lama: China hardening on Tibet
12/14/2007: 276 words, approx. 1 pages
The Dalai Lama said Thursday that China is taking an increasingly harsh stance on Tibet and he appealed for international help during a visit to Rome.Addressing Italian lawmakers in the lower chamber of parliament, the exiled spiritual leader said Tibet was not seeking independence from...
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Dalai Lama talks with the animals
6/13/2007: 539 words, approx. 2 pages
With creatures great and small around him, the Dalai Lama called Wednesday for a halt to lab experiments on animals and made the case for eating only fruits and vegetables _ all at the zoo of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin.The spiritual head of...
 


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Comparison of Philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and the Dalai Lama
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The philosophical view of the Dalai Lama and Friedrich Nietzche compared. The Dalai Lama viewed compassion for others as a guide for ethical behavior. Nietzche wrote that the religious nature and the pronouncements of religions stifle humankind's natural behaviors.


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