The 14th dalai lama biography en telugu
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WHY DALAI LAMA IN INDIA AND NOT TIBET
Buddhist spiritual leader His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama celebrates 87th birthday on 06th July 2022, three weeks from today. We Sri Lankans wish His Holiness the Dalai Lama good health and longevity..
The Dalai Lama’s escape to India marked a crucial moment, not just in Tibetan history, but also in the evolution of Indo-Chinese relationship. Chinese protests against Indian refuge to him can be heard even, 63 years after the spiritual leader came to India. Simultaneously, his entry into India also ushered in large scale Tibetan flykting influx to India. These Tibetans continue to dwell in several parts of India.
On March 10, 1959, Chinese general Zhang Chenwu invited the Dalai Lama to a performance by a kinesisk dance troupe. Soon after though, he received a message from the General asking him to appear without any soldiers or armed bodyguards. The peculiar request by the Chinese was expectedly met with a large amo
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Review: His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama; An Illustrated Biography byTenzin Geyche Tethong
The story of the 14th Dalai Lama is an Asian fairy tale. He was plucked from a remote corner of Tibet at the very edge of the Tibetan Plateau and recognized as the reincarnation of the thirteenth Dalai Lama. In 1940, Tenzin Gyatso sat on the Lion Throne in Lhasa during a ceremony attended by representatives of the British Raj, the nationalist government of China, the kings of Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, the government of Tibet, and the Buddhist clergy. A few months before China invaded Tibet in 1950, the Dalai Lama was offered both spiritual and political authority of all Tibet at the mere age of 16. Some critics then loudly observed that the young Dalai Lama was offered a badly damaged and “tattered” legacy.
China imposed the 17-Point Agreement on an isolated Tibet in which Beijing promised to leave Tibet’s traditional social and political system intact and not interfere in the au
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Brief Biography
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk. He is the spiritual leader of Tibet. He was born on 6 July 1935, to a farming family, in a small hamlet located in Taktser, Amdo, northeastern Tibet. At the age of two, the child, then named Lhamo Dhondup, was recognized as the reincarnation of the previous 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso.
The Dalai Lamas are believed to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and the patron saint of Tibet. Bodhisattvas are realized beings inspired by a wish to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings, who have vowed to be reborn in the world to help humanity.
Education in Tibet
His Holiness began his monastic education at the age of six. The curriculum, derived from the Nalanda tradition, consisted of five major and five minor subjects. The major subjects included logic, fine arts, Sanskrit grammar, and medicine, but the great