Julie - Dalai Lama
http://www.tibet.com/DL/biography.html: Go to the Web site. Then answer these questions:
1. How old was the Dalai Lama when he began studying Buddhist philosophy? How old was he when he finished his study?
2. What happened that forced the Dalai Lama to leave Tibet and live in India?
3. Many Tibetan people moved to India with him. They created a Tibetan government in exile. What has the Dalai Lama done to assure a good life for these people?
http://www.dalailama.com/html/young_dl.html: Go to the web site. Then answer these questions:
1. What does he remember about his family?
2. What things did he do in his early life that made people believe he was meant for higher things?
3. What is a reincarnation? How are future Dalai Lama’s chosen?
http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/1997/11/thurman.html: Go to the Web site. Then answer these questions:
1. What does the Dalai Lama believe about religions and what they do for people?
2. Does he believe in democracy? In what way would he see his job if Tibet became a democracy?
3. Does he believe in using violence?
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1989/lama-bio.html: Go to the Web site. Then answer these questions:
1. Why was the Dalai Lama given the Nobel Peace Prize?
2. How did this man become the Dalai Lama?
3. When he became 16 years old, the Dalai Lama became the leader of his people. The Chinese had taken over his country, and he wanted to bring peace. What did he do to try to bring peace?
http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/1989a.html: Go to the Web site. Then go to the bottom of the page and click on “Teachings by the Dalai Lama.” Then click on Speeches and Letters, and then on “Human Rights and Universal Responsibilities. Then answer these questions:
1. What does he believe causes people to hurt other people?
2. What is a solution for this?
3. What responsibilities does every human have?
1. How old was the Dalai Lama when he began studying Buddhist philosophy? How old was he when he finished his study?
2. What happened that forced the Dalai Lama to leave Tibet and live in India?
3. Many Tibetan people moved to India with him. They created a Tibetan government in exile. What has the Dalai Lama done to assure a good life for these people?
http://www.dalailama.com/html/young_dl.html: Go to the web site. Then answer these questions:
1. What does he remember about his family?
2. What things did he do in his early life that made people believe he was meant for higher things?
3. What is a reincarnation? How are future Dalai Lama’s chosen?
http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/1997/11/thurman.html: Go to the Web site. Then answer these questions:
1. What does the Dalai Lama believe about religions and what they do for people?
2. Does he believe in democracy? In what way would he see his job if Tibet became a democracy?
3. Does he believe in using violence?
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1989/lama-bio.html: Go to the Web site. Then answer these questions:
1. Why was the Dalai Lama given the Nobel Peace Prize?
2. How did this man become the Dalai Lama?
3. When he became 16 years old, the Dalai Lama became the leader of his people. The Chinese had taken over his country, and he wanted to bring peace. What did he do to try to bring peace?
http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/1989a.html: Go to the Web site. Then go to the bottom of the page and click on “Teachings by the Dalai Lama.” Then click on Speeches and Letters, and then on “Human Rights and Universal Responsibilities. Then answer these questions:
1. What does he believe causes people to hurt other people?
2. What is a solution for this?
3. What responsibilities does every human have?
posted by Marvine Stamatakis at 9:47 AM
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1. How old was the Dalai Lama when he began studying Buddhist philosophy? How old was he when he finished his study?
He began his education at the age of six and completed the Geshe Lharampa Degree(Doctorate of buddhist philosophy) when he was 25 in 1959.
2. What happened that forced the Dalai Lama to leave Tibet and live in India?
At that time, China was making Tibet to thier exile, so he was dangerous because China tried to kill him, so he went to India where is safe.
3. Many Tibetan people moved to India with him. They created a Tibetan government in exile. What has the Dalai Lama done to assure a good life for these people?
After he dstablish the refgee government, His Holiness appealed to the United Nations on the question of Tibet, asking China to respect the human rights of Tibetans and their desire for self-determination.The following 5 policy of universal peace was
1. Move all tibetans into peaceful area
2.Give up the emigration policy which threatens tibetans.
3.Respect tibetans' human rights and democratic liberty.
4.Restore and protect tibet's nature and don't use Tibet to product and get rid of nuclear weapons.
5.Start to negotiate with China about Tibetans' future and relationship between China and Tibetan.
1. What does he remember about his family?
He had a good childhood and their family wasn't very rich. His parents were kind ewpecially his mother. He had an elder sister and three elder brothers. At the time of his birth, the eldest sister helped his mother to run the house. She noticed that one of his eyes wasn't completley open, so she put her thumb on the reluctant lid and foreced it wide without any ill effect.
2. What things did he do in his early life that made people believe he was meant for higher things?
They searched the fourteenth Dalai Lama to Amdo, umbum which means that three-storeyed and turquoise -roofed. The leader of the partey, Kewtsang Rinpoche pretended to be a servant and spent much of the evening observing and playing with the youngest child in the house. A child recognised him and called out Sera Lama, Sera Lama, Sera was Kewtsang Rinpoche's monastery. They brought with them a number of things that had belonged to the thirteenth Dalai Lama together with several similar items that didn't. In every case, he correctly identified those belonging to the thirteenth Dalai Lama.
3. What is a reincarnation? How are future Dalai Lama’s chosen?
Before the thirteenth Dalai Lama, who had died aged fifty-seven in 1933 tried to show people that he predicted where the fourteenth Dalai Lama will be. The way he predict where he will born is asked people to bury him from facing south to north-east. There is a sacred lake named Lhamoi Lhatso in southern Tibet. It shows where is the next Dalai Lama. Someone who has a Regent next to Dalai Lama looted at the lake, and he saw the word Ah, Ka and Ma float into view, with a turquoise and gold roof and a path runnung from it to a hill. He was sure that the letter Ah shows to Amdo, the north-eastern province, so people knew that fourteenth Dalai Lama will be there.
1. What does the Dalai Lama believe about religions and what they do for people?
Dalai Lama believes that religions develop and strengthen the good heart.
2. Does he believe in democracy? In what way would he see his job if Tibet became a democracy?
He doesn't want any public position, but he will be a real spiritual teacher.
3. Does he believe in using violence?
No. That's part of the reason why he got a Nobel Peace Prize
1. Why was the Dalai Lama given the Nobel Peace Prize?
When China made Tibet to their exile, they started to kill Tibetans, so he went to west to say what is going on over Tibet, and he said that China should not promote violence for their exile Tibet. And a number of western universities and institutions have conferred peace Awards and Doctorate Degrees upon his Holiness in his writings in Buddhist philosophy and of his distinguished leadership in the service of freedom and peace.
2. How did this man become the Dalai Lama?
People recognize him that he had reincarnation of the thirteenth Dalai Lama, and he completed the Geshe Lharampa Degree (Doctorate of Buddhist Philosophy) when he was 25. At 24, he took the preliminary examination at each of the three monastic universities; Drepung, Sera, and Garden. He has judged by 80 scholars; 30 scholars on logic, 15 scholars on his knowledge of the canon of monastic discipline and the study of metaphysics. He passed all the exams.
3. When he became 16 years old, the Dalai Lama became the leader of his people. The Chinese had taken over his country, and he wanted to bring peace. What did he do to try to bring peace?
He didn't wanted to China to promote violence, so he asked 5 policy of universal peace with China to United Nation.
1. What does he believe causes people to hurt other people?
He believes that the cause of happiness is the principal reason why people inflict suffering on others, so some people think that causing pain to others may lead to their own happiness.
2. What is a solution for this?
The solution for this problem is the development of love and compassion for others.
3. What responsibilities do every human have?
Every human must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but also for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the best foundation for world peace.
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