Short Essay On Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama

A Buddhist monk, a living Buddha, a winner of a Nobel Prize, a spiritual and political leader, an ecological activist, and an enemy of the people of China are all answers to the question who is the Dalai Lama.

He is well known and always been seen dressed in maroon red and yellow robes. The Dalai Lama's role as a spiritual and political leader was forced to change before the 1950s and he was the Buddha of India and he was the first to start Buddhism religion, and he was loved by most of his own people and had a lot of respect across a good majority of the western world. However, The Dalai Lama, was presented in a positive way in the West, the people there thought that he is wise follower, but on the other hand, at the Republic of China, he was seen as the enemy and was accused of pretending to have beliefs and principles that he does not actually possess.

There were many factors that helped in the Dalai Lama's fame and reputation in Tibet. Like his human rights pronouncements and holding degrees from different western universities, having talks with most of the world leaders about religion and politics, writing hundreds of books in many different languages and appearing on TV shows made him one of the most famous religious figures on earth. Moreover, his famous speech that

However, we definitely agree that myth and truth coexist in the process of the reputation construction of the Dalai Lama's case and we find that a prove in his way of thinking, believing and the way he lived his life. Back then, the Buddhism became the main religion for the Tibetans and there has been a series of Dalai Lamas since the 16th