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Dalai Lama Beliefs

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Tibet is located to the south-west of China, bordering India, Nepal, Burma and Bhutan. Originally, Tibet was made up of 3 provinces: U-Tsang, Kham and Amdo. The dominant religion in Tibet is Tibetan Buddhism which is different than the style of Buddhism practiced by most of the rest of the world. Tibet was ruled by the Dalai Lama, a political and spiritual leader for Tibetans. The practices of Tibetan Buddhism are part of the Tibetan people’s culture and are incorporated into their everyday life. This way of life is one that values all beings on Earth and is followed almost exclusively by Tibetans. Today, Tibet is not governed by the Dalai Lama, and the practice of Tibetan Buddhism is diminishing. On October 9, 1950, China invaded the country …show more content…

This basically means he is a source of great power (Free). The belief is that he is a Bodhisattva who has been reincarnated for several centuries. A Bodhisattva is a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays their enlightenment out of compassion in order to save suffering beings. The Lama is about being an activity of presence, meaning that he is not seen as a God or supernatural being. He is independent from outside influences in everything he says and does, focusing on only what the Tibetan people believe and sets out to cause compassion in others. Currently, Lhamo Dondrub is the 14th Dalai Lama. Each Dalai Lama is identified by the High Lamas (the Panchen and Karmapa Lamas) through 3 methods. The first method is through dreaming. One of the Lamas may dream of a mark or location to help find the boy who will become the next Dalai Lama. If the previous Dalai Lama was cremated, they may also follow the direction of the smoke and search in that direction. The High Lamas found Lhamo Dondrub and his village by looking into the Oracle Lake, known to Tibetans as Lhamo Lhatso. What is seen in the Oracle Lake could be a vision or an indication pointing to where the boy is located. Once the High Lamas think they have found the next Dalai Lama, the child is tested to see if they are …show more content…

Since China’s takeover, Tibet has been on the path of modernization to fit in with the rest of the world. Parts of Tibet have been connected by paved roads or by rail, making transportation of people and goods faster and efficient. While these economic benefits seem like they are in good nature, with unreliable statistics, it is not certain that these economic benefits have actually occurred on a large scale in Tibet. In many cases, native Tibetans have been forced from their lands to make way for industrial work or other projects that benefit Chinese immigrants more than the native

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DBQ Different people in China had different views on the spread of Buddhism. Buddhism was a religion, created in India (6th century B.C.E) and spread to China (1st Century). After Buddhism, China started to experience political problems. Many people believed this was caused by Buddhism. Some people sided with the belief and praised Buddha saying he has much to offer, while others repelled it for the effect of the ideas on China.

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During the period of time before 350 CE, some Chinese people had begun to like Buddhism. They favored it believing it established order. It was brought to China after the collapse of the Han Dynasty in 220 CE. The collapse made China unstable. Some people thought Buddhism was toxic, while others thought it was good for China.

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Jaleen Carroll A1 11/17/17 Free Response Essay There are many major religions in the world, one of them being Buddhism. Buddhism is a religion founded in India around the fifth century C.E. Throughout time, it made its way to China. While in China, Buddhism was viewed by the people in many ways, both positive and negative.

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Buddhism is a religion founded in the 5th century, by Buddha the person who then helped spread it into places like India and much of China and continuing to spread into some parts of Asia. The vast amount of trading routes such as the silk road in Asia helped Buddha and his views spread. This new religion clashed with other great religions such as Christianity causing some’s responses to Buddhism to be alarming. However, these were only a small amount of responses, the greater response to Buddhism in China was very positive with many supporting the idea that Buddha brought which was peace and enlighten.

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He’s what we’d call a “supernatural” being (although Buddhism sees him as entirely natural, but not from our realm of existence). He represents doubt, and so most western Buddhists take his appearances as being a poetic representation of our inner doubts. He frequently appears to the Buddha and to his disciples, often in a very taunting way. One time he visited the Buddha when he was in pain from an injury, and mocked him for just lying around.

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Although Buddhism originated in the sixth century B.C.E, it quickly spread to China by the first century C.E. Buddhism was both accepted and adopted by many, but also opposed by just as many at the same time. Still some Chinese citizens chose to neither fully adopt or fully oppose the religion, but rather incorporated unique Chinese traditions into Buddhism and also created new traditions from it. Buddhism’s spread in China was met with many different responses. However, the mix of responses could be due to the fact that Buddhism’s arrival fell in the middle of a period of instability for China. Documents 2 and 3 are both in favor of Buddhism.

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Before describing the ways that Dalai Lama’s compassion was portrayed throughout Kundun, there is a main example that is essentially the main backbone surrounding the entire film. The Dalai Lama present to the people and vowed to take a path of

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Buddhism is an ancient religion that originated from India and gradually traveled to China through cultural diffusion . Many of the Chinese people liked Buddhism, which was also referred to as a “barbaric religion” according to the traditionalist. The Chinese saw their society as sophisticated and superior to any of the new ideas coming from the advance trade routes throughout their country known as the Silk roads. Due to the fall of the Han Dynasty and it’s chaos that it created, Buddhism was a peaceful distraction that gave people optimism when their government failed because of corruption and political disunity. Before Buddhism religions such as Daoism and Confucianism were popular in China, because of Buddhism, followers of the traditional

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Therefore, there is a responsibility among all societies to work towards peace and prosperity. The Dalia Lama promotes nonviolence because of the belief that personal peace connects to world peace and that there can be no harmony when there is any angry or violence in the world. People must be able to recognize their contributions to destruction and oppression and become empowered to change public discourse. The Dalia Lama states that, “because the world is interdependent, one’s behavior as a participant in society is inseparable from their individual behavior.” Engaged Buddhists often follow

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Prior to China’s invasion in 1950, Tibet maintained a unique culture, religion and language for centuries. The country was first inhabited by modern humans 15,000 years ago, making it one of the oldest settlements in the world and although much has changed in Tibet since then, their culture and national identity has remained inseparably linked to Tibetan Buddhism since the 8th Century. But all that took a turn for the worst in 1950 when China invaded Tibet, defeated the smaller Tibetan armies and forced the nation to give up its independence. Then, after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama (Tibet’s most respected man and the nation’s political and spiritual leader) fled into exile in India, followed by thousands of Tibetans.

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As stated in the text, “This principle means that all conditioned things and events in the universe come into being only as a result of the interaction of various causes and conditions”(Lama p.12). This is important because it precludes two possibilities. The first being, things can arise from nowhere, without reasoning and or conditions and the second is that things can arise on account of a transcendent designer or creator. The second dimension mentioned by the Dalai Lama, is understanding the principle of dependent origination in terms of parts and wholes. “All material objects can be understood in terms of how the parts compose the whole and how the very idea of ‘whole’ and ‘wholeness’ depends on the existence of parts” (Lama p. 13).

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In the essay, “ The Role of Religion in Modern Society”, Dalai Lama, The preeminent religious authority in Buddhism reveals the reason behind why religion has been a major source of conflict throughout the history, and how inter-religious harmony is the key to overcoming conflict of the first sort. He goes deeper into the similarities between different religion and identifies the obstacles that obstruct inter-religious harmony by developing ways to overcome them. He believes religion plays a vital role in the modern society by shaping the person's spiritual qualities rather than making him a better religious person than the other. Dalai Lama expounds that religious practice can help a person cope with adversity than those who don't.

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Introduction In 1950 the newly formed People Republic of China invaded and took control of the Buddhist country Tibet. Then after 9 years of Chinese rule, in the year 1959, Tenzin Gyatso (the Dalai Lama) escaped Tibet so that he could establish the Central Tibetan Administration or the Tibetan Government in exile. This Government in exile was set up in the northern Indian city of Dharamshala in the province of McLeod Ganj with the full support of the Indian government. This event cause outrage in the wider Buddhist community and the Dalai Lamas exile has had a major impact on the Tibetan Buddhists.

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For example : Dalai Lama has different reputations as a leader and a human rights activist as well, but his reputation is not seen as this picture everywhere because his reputation is different in the west , in his home Tibet and in his enemy 's base China and myths and truths. According to enotes, the Dalai Lama’s reputation in his native Tibet is a product of the stature that accompanies that designation. Born Lhamo Dondrub on July 6, 1935, he was officially recognized on November 17, 1950 as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, making him His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of a deeply religious Buddhist country and, as such, he commands a great deal of respect

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