Trip to Dharamshala to see Dalai Lama

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DHARAMSHALA, India | a spiritual journey

(Cece Marie) Aug. 18, 2023: Hey, Friends! This week I explored the beautiful town of Dharamshala, India. This hippy, spiritual town is not one to be missed. Home to the Dalai Lama, there is a certain sense of love, happiness & hope in the air. I really took a break from vlogging while I was here and the rest of my trip in India. But I still managed to put together a lovely video of my memories for you. My wish is for you to feel inspired by the end of this video! Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoy ✨ xoxo, Cece Marie ✨ #dalailama #dharamkot #spiritualjourney

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Dalai Lama: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

(LastWeekTonight) March 5, 2017: Tibetan Buddhists have suffered deep persecution by the Han Chinese government. John Oliver sits down with the Dalai Lama to discuss China, the conditions in Tibet, and horse milk.

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Tibet names reincarnated lama; China angry

Scott Simon, WES, 4/1/23; CC Liu, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

"His Holiness" the 14th Dalai Lama under ordination banner (The 14th Dalai Lama)

A Mongolian boy has been declared an important leader for Tibetan Buddhists

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(NPR) A Mongolian boy has been named a top leader of Tibetan Buddhism [reborn on earth and therefore called a tulku]. China is angry about this development as, officially, it maintains that it controls all Tibetan rebirths.]

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Julian Dierkes of the University of British Columbia on the implications for Mongolian-Chinese relations.

HOST SCOTT SIMON: The Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhists have declared their third most-important spiritual leader has been reincarnated in the body of an 8-year-old boy in Mongolia. The news has brought joy to [Tibetan Vajrayana] Buddhists, but it's also expected to create [political and economic] problems between Mongolia and neighboring China, which regards Tibetan [Vajrayana] Buddhism with suspicion and often outright hostility. Julian Dierkes is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia and joins us now. Thanks so much for being with us.

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PROF. JULIAN DIERKES: Well, thank you for your interest.

SIMON: Do we know much about this young man?

DIERKES: We don't really. There's a little bit of news reporting, but that's not quite confirmed yet. I think it's probably deliberately being kept a little bit vague.

SIMON: For his own safety?

DIERKES: In part although we believe him to be in Mongolia, and so there wouldn't be any threat to him. But, you know, he's 8 years old by the reporting -- maybe keep him out of the limelight a little bit.

SIMON: Yeah, Tibetan Buddhists say he is the 10th reincarnation of the Khalka Jetsun Dhampa Rinpoche. How do they know? How did the news come out?

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DIERKES: I am not a specialist on [Vajrayana] Buddhist reincarnations and how they find them [the tulkus], but it is a process the clerical hierarchy follows. And the announcement now has been an official announcement. There was an earlier announcement by the Dalai Lama when he was visiting Mongolia last that the search was on and that they were expecting to name someone. But that was not quite 10 years ago, but a while ago. And now the official announcement came. More

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Dalai Lama will never return to Tibet (video)

Hindustan Times; Dalai Lama (dalailama.com); Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dalai Lama on why he never wants to leave India; slams 'narrow minded' Chinese leaders 

(Hindustan Times) November 10, 2021. Tibet's spiritual leader, the current (14th) Dalai Lama, has hailed India as a country of peace and religious harmony, announcing that he has no plans to leave to some other nation -- or even back to Tibet/China -- and that he would like to stay until the time he is no longer alive.

The exiled spiritual and former political leader of Tibet said as much as he was was addressing an online press conference, where he took potshots at Chinese Communist Party leaders for being "narrow minded" and said that he has no plans to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.

On the issues of Tibet and Xinjiang, the Dalai Lama accused the current Chinese government of not understanding the local cultures and traditions of its empire and instead forcing its will on the people living in those two places. Watch this report for more.

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Dalai Lama's 80th birthday celebration (video)

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Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet, the heart of Tibetan Buddhism, overtaken over by China.

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Dalai Lama's 80th birthday invites celebration and contemplation

To hear the Dalai Lama laugh, his face lighting up in a beatific smile, it is easy to forget the cascade of disasters endured by the Tibetan Buddhist [Vajrayana] movement over the course of his life. VIDEO

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Why the Dalai Lama worries about rebirth

Why the Dalai Lama worries about rebirth

The Dalai Lama, leader of Tibet, with Nelson Mandela in Africa (AP)

BEIJING, China (Xinhua) - The 14th Dalai Lama said Saturday he will decide whether to be incarnated [reborn] when he is "about 90" and that China should have no say in the matter.

If he is to be reincarnated, he will leave clear written instructions about the process, the Dalai Lama said in a statement after a meeting with leaders of the four Tibetan sects.

"Apart from the reincarnation recognized through such legitimate methods, no recognition or acceptance should be given to a candidate chosen for political ends by anyone, including those in the People's Republic of China," he said.

The Dalai Lama has brought up the same issue of his reincarnation on many occasions in the last two years. More

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Dalai Lama to "retire" from gov't-in-exile

The Dalai Lama intends to retire as head of the Tibetan government in exile next year as he looks to scale back his workload and reduce his ceremonial role (AFP/File/Attila Kisbenedek). Pope Benedict will be staying on.

NEW DELHI (AFP) – The Dalai Lama intends to retire as head of the Tibetan government in exile next year as he looks to reduce his ceremonial role and scale back his workload, his spokesman told AFP Tuesday.

The Tibetan movement in exile, based in the northern Indian hill station of Dharamshala since 1960, directly elected a political leader in 2001 for the first time.

"Since then, His Holiness has always said he has been in a semi-retired state," spokesman Tenzin Taklha said.

"In recent months, His Holiness has been considering approaching the Tibetan parliament in exile to discuss his eventual retirement."

Taklha stressed that his "retirement" would be from his ceremonial responsibilities as head of the government, such as signing resolutions, not his role as spiritual leader and figurehead for Tibetans.

"This does not mean that he will withdraw from leading the political struggle. He is the Dalai Lama, so he will always lead the Tibetan people," he said.

The 75-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner is the global face for the Tibetan struggle against Chinese rule in Tibet, as well as a leading promoter of human rights, dialogue between religions and Buddhist values. More>>

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Dalai Lama, battling exhaustion, cancels trips

The Dalai Lama (L), France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (C) and Sogyal Rinpoche (R), director of the Buddhist temple Lerab Ling, attend the inauguration of the temple on 8/22/08 (REUTERS/Pascal Guyot/Pool/France).

Ashwini Bhatia (AP, 8/27/08)

DHARMSALA, India -- The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was suffering from exhaustion and has canceled two planned international trips to undergo medical tests, his office said Wednesday.

The 73-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner had been "experiencing some discomfort in the past couple of days," a statement from his office said, adding that his doctors had diagnosed "exhaustion."

The Dalai Lama just returned from an 11-day visit to France, capping an intense few months since the violent uprising against Chinese rule in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in March and the subsequent harsh Chinese crackdown.

The Dalai Lama spends several months a year traveling the globe to highlight the struggle of Tibetans for greater freedom from China and to teach Buddhism.

He canceled two upcoming trips to Mexico and the Dominican Republic and would rest over the next three weeks, said Thupten Samphel, the spokesman of the self-declared Tibetan government-in-exile.

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Samphel said the Dalai Lama would travel to Mumbai for medical tests Thursday before returning to recuperate in the north Indian hill town of Dharmsala, where he has had his headquarters since fleeing Tibet in 1959 after an abortive uprising against China.

"He has been going to Mumbai for regular health checkups on advice from his doctors for quite a long time," said Samphel. He said all appointments and visits would be canceled for three weeks.

While the Dalai Lama is generally thought to be in good health, this is not the first time exhaustion has laid him low. In 2006, the globe-trotting Buddhist leader was grounded by his doctors because of exhaustion and canceled all his engagements for a month.

Since the outbreak of violence in Tibet, China has stepped up its campaign to vilify him, blaming him for recent unrest which Beijing says was part of a campaign to split the Himalayan region from the rest of China.

He has denied the allegations and says he only wants greater autonomy for the Himalayan region to protect its Buddhist culture.

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Dalai Lama during consecration ceremony of Lerab Ling Temple, Roqueredonde, southern France, 8/22/08 (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool)