The Teacher - The Dalai Lama of Tibet
Title: The Teacher - The Dalai Lama of Tibet
Category: /Social Sciences/Political Science
Details: Words: 698 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Teacher - The Dalai Lama of Tibet
Category: /Social Sciences/Political Science
Details: Words: 698 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
There is a burgeoning group in the West who are sceptical about Tibetan
Buddhism and its most prominent member, the Dalai Lama. They say they are
suspicious of the increasing number of wealthy and glamorous people who
flock to teachings by an ever more visible number of Tibetan lamas around
the globe.
Surely, they reason, there must be something rotten in the state of Denmark.
Perhaps pre-invasion Tibet was an oppressed feudal society headed by
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featured is footage of Trappist monk and poet Thomas Merton who, the
Dalai Lama said, opened up his mind to the greatness of Jesus Christ, whom
Buddhists consider to be a manifestation of Buddha or a Bodhisattva - a
fully developed altruistic being.
As for Richard Gere, I have it on good authority that he is a Buddhist who
earns his money through acting rather than an actor who chooses to cloak
himself in Buddhism.