Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama: Why I’m hopeful about the world’s future - The Washington Post

June 17, 2016

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of Tibet. Since 1959, he has lived in exile in Dharamsala in northern India. Almost six decades have passed since I left my homeland, Tibet, and became a refugee. Thanks to the kindness of the government and people of India, we Tibetans found a second home where we could live in dignity and freedom, able to keep our language, culture and Buddhist traditions alive.

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Communist Party in Tibet Aims to Punish Dalai Lama Followers - The New York Times

November 11, 2015

A party official said it was also important to go after members who “pretend not to be religious but indeed are.”

Source: Communist Party in Tibet Aims to Punish Dalai Lama Followers - The New York Times

October 9, 2015 ~ The Dalai Lama's Doctor | October 9, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

October 10, 2015

Buddhism became a sanctuary for Dr. Barry Kerzin and led to his ordination as a monk. Now he serves as the Dalai Lama’s personal physician and combines his medical wisdom with love and compassion that translate into empathy. More →

Source: October 9, 2015 ~ The Dalai Lama's Doctor | October 9, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

The Dalai Lama at 80 | August 21, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

August 23, 2015

FRED DE SAM LAZARO, correspondent: In just the past few weeks, he’s appeared at a music festival in England, a presidential library in Houston, and a stadium near Los Angeles. There is perhaps no world figure today with a more diverse base of fans and well-wishers.(speaking to His Holiness the Dalai Lama): Why are you so popular globally? Why are you a rock star?HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA: I don’t know. I never pay attention about that, why people praise me.DE SAM LAZARO: And even as he celebrated his 80th birthday, he said he’s not concerned about another matter that’s on many...

Dalai Lama Addresses Challenges of Practicing Buddhism in America

September 25, 2003

Source: Beliefnet.com

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/133/story_13319_1.html

On September 25, 2003 Beliefnet.com ran a story from the Religion News Service on the Dalai Lama's conference with American Buddhist leaders: "For hundreds of thousands of Buddhist lay practitioners in America who look to the Dalai Lama as a religious authority, the most significant event on his 16-day tour may have been a closed-door meeting in Garrison, N.Y, where the India-based lama met with 275...

Dalai Lama Visits New York City

September 22, 2003

Source: The Journal News

http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/092203/a01c22dalailama.html

On September 22, 2003 The Journal News reported that tens of thousands of individuals gathered to listen to the Dalai Lama speak in Central Park. The 68-year-old leader of Tibbetan Buddhism spoke on compassion, war, the environment, and the unhappiness of human beings. He opened with a message to the people that "neither color nor faith separated them. 'We are all...

Dalai Lama Visits Boston

September 18, 2003

Source: Harvard University Gazette

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/09.18/01-dalailama.html

On September 18, 2003, the Harvard University Gazette ran an article on the Dalai Lama's visit to Harvard. His Holiness spoke in Memorial Church in Harvard Yard on Sept. 15. For Harvard's multimedia coverage of the event, see www.harvard.edu/multimedia.

Dalai Lama Visits Boston

September 14, 2003

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/09/14/the_buddha_of_suburbia/

On September 14, 2003 The Boston Globe reported that "this weekend, and unusual encounter is taking place at MIT: The Dalai Lama meets the human brain. Along with the Dalai Lama, prominent Tibetan and western Buddhists are joining neuroscientists, psychologists, and other academics in a conference called 'Investigating the Mind,'...

Dalai Lama Visits Boston

September 12, 2003

Source: ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030912_120.html

On September 12, 2003 ABC News reported that "the 14th Dalai Lama is simultaneously the exiled monarch of Tibet, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning statesman and Buddhism's most renowned world leader aspects that are all evident during his current U.S. tour. ...apparently the biggest gathering of Buddhist teachers ever held in the United States. Only followers of the Dalai Lama's own Tibetan form of the faith are...

Dalai Lama Visits New York City

September 1, 2003

Source: The Journal-News (NY)

http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/090103/b0101dalailama.html

On September 1, 2003, The Journal-News ran an article on the Dalai Lama's upcoming visit to New York City, stating that "the Dalai Lama has become one of America's most recognized and revered religious leaders, a figure in saffron robes and flip-flops held in the same kind of esteem as Pope John Paul II and Billy Graham, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. On...

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Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama: Why I’m hopeful about the world’s future - The Washington Post

Communist Party in Tibet Aims to Punish Dalai Lama Followers - The New York Times

October 9, 2015 ~ The Dalai Lama's Doctor | October 9, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

The Dalai Lama at 80 | August 21, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

Dalai Lama Addresses Challenges of Practicing Buddhism in America

Dalai Lama Visits New York City

Dalai Lama Visits Boston

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