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14 Mar 2022, 1:29 pm by David Kopel
Post 1 covered Tibet before the 1949 Chinese invasion, including the Tibetan government's refusal to heed the 1932 warning of the Dalai Lama to strengthen national defense against the "'Red' ideology". [read post]
13 Mar 2022, 5:42 pm by David Kopel
At the urging of the people and an oracle, the fourteenth Dalai Lama ended his regency in November 1950 and reluctantly took the reins of state. [read post]
12 Mar 2022, 1:09 pm by David Kopel
In 1910, a bloodthirsty Chinese army led by Zhao Erfeng took over Lhasa and drove the thirteenth Dalai Lama into exile. [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 8:01 am by Raquel Leslie, Brian Liu
On Feb. 4, the House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at increasing U.S. economic competitiveness with China. [read post]
12 Nov 2021, 4:29 am by SHG
Writing his Friday Funny had finally taken its toll on Chris Seaton, who decided on sheer impulse to shave his head, buy a saffron robe at the Dollar Tree and become an acolyte of the Dalai Lama. [read post]
3 Nov 2021, 7:42 am by Tom Smith
”Tibet’s 14th Dalai Lama has been polarising opinion for well over half-a-century now. [read post]
8 Sep 2021, 6:00 am by Jane Turner
” During her time working for DSS Iriart protected notable persons including the Dalai Lama, Hillary Clinton, and Condoleezza Rice. [read post]
26 Aug 2021, 7:04 am
The documentary treats him as a spiritual healer, somewhere in the family of the Dalai Lama, but it’s more accurate to place him alongside Julia Child, Richard Simmons, and other lovable oddballs who found a niche in mass media and burrowed their way into popular culture.From "What’s Revealed in 'Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed'/A new Netflix documentary explores the fraught legacy of Bob Ross and his happy little trees" (The New… [read post]
7 Jul 2021, 9:03 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
—The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso; born Lhamo Dhondup; known as Gyalwa Rinpoche to the Tibetan people) This excerpt, from a “teaching” by the Dalai Lama in France in 2000 and now published in book form, is very interesting, to put it mildly. [read post]
11 Jun 2021, 12:32 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
Preeliminary thoughts on religious lifeworlds: As I’ve said before, “lifeworlds” are idiosyncratic and somewhat complex, often (thus not necessarily) depending upon at least one worldview to give them some sort of shape, say, in the form of Christianity, Islam, or Marxism (or even combinations thereof, hence ‘liberation theology’ or Catholic Worker radicalism or ‘spiritual Marxism’ like that of the Dalai Lama). [read post]
28 May 2021, 3:56 am by SHG
We are asking them to be a combination of Henry Kissinger, the Dalai Lama and John Wayne. [read post]
21 May 2021, 10:00 pm by Guest Contributor Dr. Karen Finn
The Dalai Lama makes it all sound so simple, so matter of fact: The purpose of our lives is to be happy. [read post]
The resolution also highlights human rights violations committed by China on other accounts such as harvesting organs, restriction on freedom of expression, and political rights under the national security law; the parliament called for China to put a stop to such grave violations of human rights and asked it to allow access to independent human rights experts to Tibetan areas as well as to restart dialogue with Dalai Lama. [read post]
4 May 2021, 3:58 am by Dan Harris
Although the film was not scheduled for release in China, the CCP took umbrage at Sony’s politically incorrect (in China) retelling of Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer’s experiences as a tutor to the 14th Dalai Lama, and blocked the company from releasing any film in China. [read post]
1 Apr 2021, 11:30 am by Jamie P. Horsley
At least three U.S. universities with CIs have hosted the Dalai Lama, although a CI director warned another university’s provost that re-scheduling a cancelled visit by the Dalai Lama could disrupt relationships with China, leading the provost to observe that a CI does present opportunities for “subtle pressure and conflict. [read post]
27 Feb 2021, 10:45 am
”The Dalai Lama, for example, believes that we are inseparable from one another, and that individual identity is nothing but an “illusion. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 6:31 am by Derek Fincham
One man crammed a framed photo of the Dalai Lama into his backpack, while another smoked marijuana in a room with maps of Oregon on the wall. [read post]