The Dalai Lama has had a big impact on so many lives for the better. He wants to bring more positivity to the world and make the world a better place. Everyone around the world recognizes his name because of how much he has done and how important everything he does is. The Dalai Lama has a world of people looking up to him for guidance and answers about life. His holiness was discovered at young age which brought him to accomplish so much more over time and be able to teach more for a longer time.
The Dalai Lama was born in Taktser, a little village in northeast Tibet. When he was just two years old, he was discovered as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama. When he was six years old he started going to school and by the time he was 25 he had his Doctorate of Buddhist Philosophy. All while
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He wanted to make people happy and know how their emotions result in different physical feelings. “He advocates the cultivation of warm-heartedness and human values such as compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, contentment and self-discipline.” Everyone wants to be happy and everyone wants to avoid suffering and pain. The Dalai Lama teaches that we are all the same and we can all experience happiness, but since we are human, we will also experience suffering from time to time. The Dalai Lama refers to his teachings as universal values because everyone can benefit from them being religious or not. Another main teaching of his is religious harmony. He recognizes that all religions, although they may be different and practice differently, have the same goals, to produce good people. A third main teaching he practices is showing the Tibetan people hope and trust. To do this is makes sure their culture is still practiced, the language is still used, and all traditions stay the same. In the end, the big picture of the Dalai Lama’s teachings is to be positive and bring peace into everything that is