What the Dalai Lama really eats (video)

Mashed, Oct. 25, 2018; DalaiLama.com; CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Thiksey Tibetan Monastery, Ladakh, India

The 14th Dalai Lama's eating habits are nothing if not interesting. From his view on meat, to the strict discipline for Buddhist monastics, to the Potala Palace gardens that [used to] provide his favorite ingredients while the little people struggle in exile or under harsh Chinese rule, here are the ins-and-outs of the his not-so-meek diet.

Is he vegetarian? | 0:16
Tibetan breakfast and lunch | 1:12
Homegrown vegetables and fresh bread | 2:06
Oodles of noodles | 2:41
Mare's milk beer | 3:12
Yak butter tea | 3:49

Please, go vegan. I eat green and make butter and wool for Tibet's harsh climate. The most interesting thing about yaks is that Tibetan culture wouldn’t exist without them (sivanaspirit.com).

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Who or what is the Dalai Lama? (10/17)

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Never mind the past. Be today.

A lama is a Tibetan monk who trains in a lamasery, but what is a "Dalai" lama?

Who is the 14th pope/priest-king of the Yellow Hat school of Vajrayana Buddhism?

We'll get to know his story, his function, the issue he has with China -- which invaded and still occupies the Tibetan Plateau behind Mt. Everest -- and his strange alliance with Washington, DC.

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There's a reason we as Americans hear so much about him. He is beloved, and his books are very popular, but he has his detractors even inside of Buddhism.

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Dalai Lama: gun control, Orlando, climate

SFGate.com; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

SACRAMENTO, California - In front of state lawmakers weighing a slate of gun-control measures, the Dalai Lama said Monday [June 20, 2016] that ending violence requires inner disarmament and an education system that focuses on teaching moral values, compassion and what it means to be a global citizen.

In a speech to lawmakers in the state Capitol, the Tibetan spiritual leader called a sense of community “the basis of our own happy future.”

(Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle)

His comments came in the wake of the mass shooting in Orlando and the deadly attack in San Bernardino in December, which led California lawmakers to introduce more than a dozen gun-control bills.

“Real gun control must come from here,” the Dalai Lama said, pointing at his heart.

 

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate also spoke to the Legislature of the need to care for the planet and the threat of climate change -- a hallmark concern for Gov. Jerry Brown -- in an address that diverged widely from his prepared comments. More

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VIDEO: Dalai Lama addresses joint session of California Legislature

Prayer for Orlando. Boisterous reception. Exiled Tibetan leader expected to discuss compassion, ethical leadership. This is his first visit to Sacramento (state capital) after plans for 2009 visit fell through. But the legislative address was closed to public. More

 

Tenzin Desel, 13, Tenzin Yega, 11, Tenzin Kunsang, 8, from El Cerrito wait to welcome the Dalai Lama at the Legislature in Sacramento, California (Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle).

Suicide and Self-Immolation in Tibet (video)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

(ITN News)  Disturbing video from the Free Tibet group allegedly shows a Tibetan Buddhist monk after he committed self-immolation in Ngaba (Aba). Report by Mark Morris.

Suicide is never advisable. Running from suffering (dukkha) by running toward more suffering is no way to end suffering.
   
Self-martyrdom is no way to garner attention of a cause. The world knows Tibet is suffering. Decades ago when the CIA entered the Himalayas to thwart China, India, and Central Asian states and assert strategic control of the Himalayan region, it brokered a deal with the Dalai Lama and Tibet's church-and-state government. 
  
The result has been part of fallout of that devil's bargain.
  

Chinese police beat burn survivors to death and courts imprison others.

    

The Dalai Lama, technically speaking, by accepting such aid and advice from US imperial forces (the West's multinational Military-Industrial Complex) became a CIA operative. When did he ever renounce his membership? What did that lesser-of-two-evils choice do for Tibet?

   

It may have kept Tibet on the map. But the US can neither control China nor defeat it. In its attempt to subvert the world's biggest country, it has made Tibet a pawn.

   

As Tibet is seen to align with Western military forces and India, who hosts its government-in-exile in Dharamsala to spite China, China applies medieval police state special weapons and tactics (SWAT) on it. Those weapons and tactics are American exports.

   

Self-immolation only causes China humiliation, and it uses the loss of face to justify becoming more and more draconian

   

What do the US, MIC, NATO, or any other Western nation do? They secretly fund and train paramilitary forces around the world on how to use these exact same tactics against civilian populations.

  

In the meantime, Buddhism is misrepresented as applauding this form of suicide and self-directed violence.

  

(SVS) Stratfor's Rodger Baker, Vice President of Strategic Intelligence, examines the tactic of self-immolation as a way to galvanize protest movements.

   

Self-immolators are exhibiting nationalist tendencies far more than exemplifying any Buddhist teaching. 

   

A selfless act in line with anatta ("not-self," the impersonal nature of ego, the physical-and-psychological phenomena we feel closest to) or shunyata (the "emptiness" of all conditioned phenomena) would exhibit qualities the Buddha was famous for: 

• equanimity (non-bias), compassion, kindness, wisdom...

In desperation, to heat up a cold war with the Chinese Empire, guerrilla tactics are no way to win. We burn ourselves, we burn the other, and we both are the worse for it.

   

Of course, as humans, as Buddhists, as Americans, we side with Tibet. Of course, we side with the 14th Dalai Lama (a benevolent king/pope, who fortunately retired from his role as head of state). But we do not side with the forces of war.

  

It is not clear that the CIA is any better than the Chinese Communist regime putting into effect its own dreams of empire. 

  

Will the CIA/MIC win and deliver semi-autonomous Tibetan, Uygur, and Taiwanese regions to freedom? Not a chance. It is only exchanging one dictator for another. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" (The Who). Look what CAI/MIC plotted using Japan to ransack China's gold during the time of the pre-Communist government.

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Exhausted Dalai Lama admitted to hospital

The Dalai Lama seen here at Lerab Ling temple with France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, just before taking ill (Reuters).

THE DALAI LAMA (Reuters, August 29, 2008) -- exiled Tibetan spiritual leader and head of the Tibetan Government in Exile (Dharmsala, India), has been admitted to a hospital in India with "abdominal discomfort."

The Vajrayana Buddhist leader, who canceled two foreign trips after he complained of fatigue, was "cheerful" after reaching the hospital in Mumbai (Bombay, India), a hospital spokesman said.

Doctors said there was no cause for concern. The announcement that he had been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai came a day after the Dalai Lama's office said he was suffering from exhaustion and would travel to the city for a medical check-up.

"There is nothing major to feel concerned about,'' his personal secretary Tenzin Taklha said. "But he has been admitted to the Lilivati Hospital in Mumbai because he was feeling some discomfort in his abdomen.''

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It is expected that if he should die, the Tibetan separatist movement in China would devolve into chaos. It would also lead to some confusion regarding his succession since most Tibetans do not accept that China has abducted the Panchen Lama and nominated its own government-friendly replacement.

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)