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Dali Lam The Reincarnation Of The Dali Lama

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Kundun is the name given to the fourth teen Dali Lama who is the reincarnation of the previous Dali Lamas who is said to be the embodiment of the Buddha of compassion. In Buddhism is said that the Dali Lama is the reincarnation of the same spirit. The Dali Lama plays an important role in leading the people of Tibet and dealing with its affairs. Having the state and religion together ruling a country is beneficial but can also affect the country affairs in the case of Kundun. How can I see religious and spiritual aspects in the movie the Kundun we looking at events as they occur through the movie?
In Buddhism it is said that the Dali Lama is reincarnation of the same person that have been the Dali Lama and known as the Buddha of compassion. …show more content…

I see a problem with this because although this could be the way to find the next Dali Lama it can be a bit inaccurate because what if a person picks the same object use by the previous Dali Lama but is not the reincarnation of the Buddha of compassion this person will be task to rule. In my opinion I think is a bit drastic were the monks that found the boy to be the reincarnation of the thirteen Dali Lama took the boy from a young age away from his family not giving the boy a …show more content…

The type of government Tibet has in the movie is monarchy based government were the Dali Lama is the equivalent of a king. But unlike many monarchy that have existed since the beginning of the human race the Dali Lama rule maintain peace and harmony in a peaceful way whereas other monarchy will use its military to inflict fear to maintain the peace and maintain power. Although the rule was peaceful it had its problem when face with foreign affairs; this was shown in the movie were we see after the revolution in china the people republic of china took power in china and invaded the land of Tibet. The problem was in not believing in violence is the answer the land of Tibet did not keep up with the advances of military power which cause them to be invaded by the Chinese easily, this cause problems for the Dali Lama because the conquerors wanted to change the views of their religion; which this has been a normal procedure in history were the conquerors implement their way on the people they have conquered. After the fall of the Tibet to the people’s republic of china we saw that the Dali Lama rejected china proposals to implement their ways into the religion and went into hiding to try reestablish the Tibet’s government and drive off the Chinese out of there land; this had an impact on me were it shows even though

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