Dalai Lama the 14th
Dalai Lama (b.1935) the 14th, also Tenzin Gvatso, is a Tibetan spiritual and political leader. He is also leader of Tibetan Buddhism and temporal head of Tibet. As a young leader, he sought to compromise with China's Mao Zedong, then resisted increasing Chinese encroachment. He led his government into exile in India during Chinese invasion. Dalai Lama seeks nonviolent solution to Chinese control of Tibet. He is a strong proponent for self-government of Tibet and for nonviolence in world disputes. He was the winner of Nobel Prize for peace in 1989.Wisdom & Quotes
- We live very close together. So, our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them at least don't hurt them.
- I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable - you do not know when and how it will take place.
- Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greates adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
- Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, people's love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.
- If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it (violence) is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.
Hussein
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Dalai-Lama, Dalal Street, Dalayrac, Dalbhi the epithet, Dalbhi the weapon