1. The Dalai Lama firstly has been a leader for Tibet for many years now, helping them and leading them. The contribution for Tibet is huge because he is like their god he keeps them safe and does all he can to keep the Chinese from making things worse. Another contribution is the contribution he has made to Buddhism. He has brought Buddhism to another level, a scientific level. Buddhism is now being recognized more as a science although all the work is definitely not credited all to him he has made people aware of the science behind Buddhism. Lastly he has made a massive contribution to the world by putting "peace" in their minds. He has written books about peace that people read he has made a contribution to educating peoples minds on the concept of peace.
2. My figure was escorted,when he was a little child when he had just been recognized as Dalai Lama, to the temple where he would meet the High Lama's. It was lights, people cheering like the king of the world was coming.
3. He was awarded with the Gesha Lharampa award which is an award that was acknowledging his high honorary test scores. Later in his life he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
4. Hasn't occurred yet.
Title: My Land and My People
Author: 14th Dalai Lama
Genre: Autobiography
In this weeks reading the Dalai Lama described how he tried to make a mid-way point with the chinese. When he visited Mao Zedong in China after the treacherous he met a young man, a reincarnation of a special monk. After he met the young man he was escorted to the headquarters of the government office in Beijing. He then met Mao Zedong, which he had met before. Mao Zedong was very lax and didn't even discuss the problem he was creating in Tibet. Until later in the evening when the Dalai lama brought up the topic, even then Mao tended to not answer the questions fully. While reading the passage I was getting annoyed that he wouldn't listen so to live that moment I can tell the Dalai Lama is a very tolerant person. Imagine trying to find a solution and the person you talking to won't even hear you out. Very frustrating. Also when Mao did listen he would interrupt and simply say " we are just helping, we are uniting China and Tibet 'once again!'"
On his trip he didn't find any sort of solution but what he did get out of the trip was an idea of how the chinese felt about this. He did get one thing done though he had arranged a meeting with the Chinese general for when he returned from China to Tibet.
Also I didn't read this in the book but I did read an article about how the Dalai Lama was advancing Buddhism. The article was indeed very interesting. Apparently he has really been working on showing people how Buddhism is a science of the mind. At the science ceremony in 2005 he described how his religion was simple and how the philosophy is kindness, "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” He also described how finding out more about how Buddhism and its relation to science would actually be helpful, "neuroscience and society could have profound benefits that may help deepen our basic understanding of what it means to be human and our responsibilities for the natural world we share with other sentient beings.”
2. My figure was escorted,when he was a little child when he had just been recognized as Dalai Lama, to the temple where he would meet the High Lama's. It was lights, people cheering like the king of the world was coming.
3. He was awarded with the Gesha Lharampa award which is an award that was acknowledging his high honorary test scores. Later in his life he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
4. Hasn't occurred yet.
Title: My Land and My People
Author: 14th Dalai Lama
Genre: Autobiography
In this weeks reading the Dalai Lama described how he tried to make a mid-way point with the chinese. When he visited Mao Zedong in China after the treacherous he met a young man, a reincarnation of a special monk. After he met the young man he was escorted to the headquarters of the government office in Beijing. He then met Mao Zedong, which he had met before. Mao Zedong was very lax and didn't even discuss the problem he was creating in Tibet. Until later in the evening when the Dalai lama brought up the topic, even then Mao tended to not answer the questions fully. While reading the passage I was getting annoyed that he wouldn't listen so to live that moment I can tell the Dalai Lama is a very tolerant person. Imagine trying to find a solution and the person you talking to won't even hear you out. Very frustrating. Also when Mao did listen he would interrupt and simply say " we are just helping, we are uniting China and Tibet 'once again!'"
On his trip he didn't find any sort of solution but what he did get out of the trip was an idea of how the chinese felt about this. He did get one thing done though he had arranged a meeting with the Chinese general for when he returned from China to Tibet.
Also I didn't read this in the book but I did read an article about how the Dalai Lama was advancing Buddhism. The article was indeed very interesting. Apparently he has really been working on showing people how Buddhism is a science of the mind. At the science ceremony in 2005 he described how his religion was simple and how the philosophy is kindness, "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” He also described how finding out more about how Buddhism and its relation to science would actually be helpful, "neuroscience and society could have profound benefits that may help deepen our basic understanding of what it means to be human and our responsibilities for the natural world we share with other sentient beings.”
He is a very good person, I also like that you added a summary of what you read, many people didn't do that, you added a lot of detail and thought into your blog post!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading you blog post and it had very interesting information. Maybe add a picture of him or the book so we have an idea of what he looks like or how's the book. The thing that I liked the most about your blogpost is how at the end you added another information about him that is not from the book. Also the quote "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”. Great job :D
ReplyDeleteAwesome post! The Dalai Lama sounds like a great person especially because he is doing so much for his people. I like that he makes people look at Buddhism in another way too; not only a religion. Maybe you could have added a picture, but I like that you have a quote and your summary was very long and thorough. I like how you said that the Dalai Lama must have been a patient and tolerant person because he didn't get annoyed or mad when Mao Zedong wouldn't answer his questions.
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