Dharamsala Essays

Introduction: Dalai lamas are the important monks (person who spends life in practicing religious activities and lives under certain rules like chastity, self-denial, poverty and obedience) of the Gelug (the newest school of Tibetan Buddhism created by Je Tsongkhapa (a famous teacher of Tibetan Buddhism ). But the serious of Dalai Lamas didn’t stop to the first or second or third, in fact there are 14 Dalai Lamas and serious is supposed to be continued. 14th Dalai Lama: The 14th Dalai Lama also known

recognized as the reincarnation of the previous 13th Dalai Lama. At age 15, he assumed political power of Tibet as the Dalai Lama. The People 's Republic of China invaded that same year. Fearing assassination, he and thousands of followers fled to Dharamsala in northern India, where they established an alternative government. Since then, the Dalai Lama has taken numerous actions in hopes of establishing an autonomous Tibetan state within the People 's Republic of China. However, the Chinese government

Who is the Dalai Lama? • The Dalai Lama is considered the head monk of Tibetan Buddhist monk. The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, prefers to describe himself as a simple Buddhist monk. Because, we always see him dressed in maroon and yellow robes. He is the spiritual leader of Tibet; he has been a monk all his life. Lhamo Thondup went to the Potala Palace during the winter of 1940, where he was announced officially as the spiritual leader of Tibet. Soon after, he was taken to the Jokhang temple where

In the non-fiction book The Book of Joy, by Douglas Abrams, Abrams is interviewing two of the world’s most well-known religious leaders, His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in the breezy mountains of Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh in India, about the road to joy, its true meaning, and how to experience it and keep it in your emotions frequently. Abrams, the narrator of the book, writes about the questions he asked the two joyful, sagacious men, the replies he received

Buddha was born in Sakyan, a region in what is now Nepal. His name is Siddhartha. For much of his adult life Siddhartha devoted himself to preaching a vision of ethical and spiritual contemplation, message that was attracting a growing number of converts. From a young age Siddhartha is concerned with three aspects of human life: Aging, disease and death. At the age of 29, he left his place of residence and becomes a wandering ascetic devoted to meditation. His major concern was finding and light

The Sinicization of Tibet: A Net Loss By Spencer Glesby On the 6th or 7th of October 1950 (in what would be known as The Battle of Chamdo), the newly established People’s Republic of China (PRC), after months of failed negotiations between China and Tibet to form a peace agreement and a successful invasion of the neutral Kham region, sent troops across the Jinsha River and into Kham (which had recently severed it’s ties with both the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan capital of Lhasa). By

gathering on the banks of the Ganges, Tamil Nadu’s Virgin Mary Basilica at Velangani, the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Sai Baba Ashram near Bangalore, Mata Amritanandamayi’s Ashram in Kerala, Jain temple in Delhi and the meeting the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, the tibetan Buddhist center. She also explores smaller, more marginal traditions, including Vipassana Buddhist meditation where one are to keep silence for all of the ten days, the Parsis of Malabar Hill and the now-fading Bene Israel Jewish community

2000 m. Therefore, decline in the patterns of precipitation and temperature is noticed from west to the east, and south to the north. The average rainfall in Himachal Pradesh is 1,111 mm, varying from 450 mm in Lahaul and Spiti to over 3,400 mm in Dharamsala. Winter precipitation occurs as snow at elevations above 1800 m. The natural vegetation types in this region vary from Sub-tropical moist pine forest to Alpine forest. The Sub-tropical moist pine forests are found in the lower regions at altitudes

Reputation is the opinion that people in general have about someone, or how much respect or admiration someone receives, based on past behavior or character and often used without much attention to its complex meaning. As such, very little effort is invested in verifying the origin or accuracy of a particular reputation. The reputations are far from being uniform; the process of reputation construction/formation is far from being a simple and straightforward process. Reputation is made from someone’s

. The Dalai Lama The current Dalai Lama has a very complex reputation. He means a lot to people. The Dalai Lama described himself as a simple monk, but other people see that he is more than a monk. For Tibetan people, he is a spiritual leader and a living Buddha. The western and Chinese people also have a very different viewpoints about the Dalai Lama. Unlike China, the Dalai Lama is described in a positive way in the west, so why this man gains t different reputations. The 14th Dalai