When the thirteenth Dalai Lama died in December 1933, a Manchester Guardian editorial explained that he was ‘not dead, but he has left his white and crimson palace at Lhasa and a fourteenth incarnation reigns in his stead.’.
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“With domestic and global challenges calling for newfound cooperation, we look for inspiration from His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a tireless advocate for compassionate action for our shared humanity”, Michael Trainer, Founder of the Peak Mind Foundation said of hosting the event. Until the 1950s, when communist China took control, he was also head of the Tibetan government.
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“As His Holiness the Dalai Lama says, ‘Peace in the world depends on peace in the individual”. The collection of speeches is historically textualised by Sofia Stril-Rever, a scholar of Tibetan history who has long served as the Dalai Lama’s French translator.
Johnson said she was honored to create the presentation, especially because the religious leader will be speaking on “the transformative power for creativity and art”. On June 21 – his birthday according to the Tibetan lunar calendar – was celebrated in the northern Indian city of Dharamsala at the headquarters of the Tibetan government in exile.
In 2007, Bush awarded the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal and was the first president to publicly meet with him, which Chinese leaders saw as an affront.
But with China’s clout growing and the Dalai Lama’s age advancing, Beijing has increasingly tried to isolate the Buddhist leader, who fled into exile in India in 1959.
Mao Zedong with the Dalai Lama (right) and Panchen Lama, 1956. In March, during the last session of the country’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, several politicians attacked the Dalai Lama.
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The Observer, 1 July 1984.
