According to the Spence‚ Dalai Lama intended to implement the full democracy in the future. He believed that the most urgent concern at the time is the massive influx of Chinese settlers into Tibet. In addition‚ Tibetans are rapidly being reduced to an insignificant minority in their
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Self-power (jiriki) -In Chan Buddhism emphasized as necessary and sufficient for enlightenment. In Pure Land‚ insufficient without Amida. -In Zen‚ spiritual achievement attained solely by one’s own efforts. Self-power forms basis of both Rinzai and Soto schools of Buddhism. -Experiencing truth for oneself and not accepting testimony of another. -In Pure Land‚ one cannot become enlightened themselves through their own efforts because people have become so defiled so it is impossible. They must
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10th century A.D. He is considered the founder of the lineage and‚ in addition‚ he received four special transmissions (Tib: bka-babs-bzhi) for which he became the lineage holder. [pic] The leader of Tibetan Buddhism: the Dalai Lam[pic] The fourteenth Dalai Lama is the reincarnation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion and is presently leader of one branch of Tibetan Buddhism "The Way of Virtue" (Gelugpa). Is a Tantaric school of Buddhism the Kadampa tradition is
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TRE6A91D620101110 [accessed 23rd July 2012] Steinberg‚ D. I. (2010) Burma/Burma What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press. New York. The Economist (2012). Aung San Suu Kyi and the Dalai Lama. [online]. Available from http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2012/06/aung-san-suu-kyi-and-dalai-lama [accessed 20 July 2012] U.S. Department of State Diplomacy in Action. Burma 12/07 [Online]. Available from http://www.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/burma/88022.htm [accessed 22 Jul 2012]
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Utopia through Materials? Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about a materialistic society that has forgotten social interaction with each other. This materialistic society is where Bradbury believed society today is headed. The materialistic society in Fahrenheit 451 created through Bradbury’s cynic views of society. His views of society are over-exaggerated in contrast with today’s events‚ especially in the areas of censorship and media mediocrity. The purpose of
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Contentment In Howard C. Cutler’s “Inner Contentment‚” which was published in the “Art of Happiness” in 1998‚ -an American writer and psychiatrist- write about his argument with the 14th Dalai Lama‚ Tenzin Gyatso‚ on human’s desire for material acquisition. In the conversation‚ Cutler asks Dalai Lama to speak on desire and the Dalai starts by segregating desire into two terms‚ the positive and negative desire. The former is the reasonable desire that does not comes with trouble and is right for the surrounding
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References: Crossing the Line: China’s Railway to Lhasa. (2008). International Campagian for Tibet (ITC). Washington‚ DC China calls Dalai Lama ’s railway criticism political error. (2007). Tibetan Review: The Monthly Magazine on all Aspects of Tibet‚ 42(4)‚ 13. China plans 9 key mine development zones in ’Tibet ’. (2011). Tibetan Review: The Monthly Magazine on all Aspects of Tibet
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unresolved: the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile in India; China’s non-recognition of Sikkim’s merger with India; the nuclear tests in 1998 by India; and India’s allegation that China is arming Pakistan‚ including the latter’s nuclear programme. A disputed Himalayan border was the main pretext for war‚ but other issues played a role. There had been a series of violent border incidents after the 1959 Tibetan uprising‚ when India had granted asylum to the Dalai Lama. India initiated
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Wong. This movie is based on a novel which is based on the field notes of Heinrich Harrer (Brad Pitt). This film sparked a lot of controversy in the far east. The Chines government stated that the officers were said to be rude and impolite to the Dalai Lama. The movie starts out with the Germans heading off to climb the world’s tallest mountain in India‚ Nanga. When they get to the halfway point‚ they have to turn back because of avalanches. When they get back down to base camp‚ they are detained
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Major World Religions? “Every major religion of the world has similar ideals of love‚ the same goal of benefiting humanity through spiritual practice‚ and the same effect of making their followers into better human beings.” This quote by the Dalai Lama was in response to a book written by Jeffrey Moses‚ titled Oneness: Great Principles Shared by all Religions. The book talks about sixty five different principles that most major religions share. All religions sets guide lines in which on should
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