14th Dalai Lama Research Paper

Well Known Leader: Bringing Peace to Nations World Wide
Who helps you through all of your conflicts? Who gets you through the day? And helps you in times of need? For the Tibetans and many other Buddhists around the world, that person is the Dalai Lama. He is followed by many people and greatly respected by many cultures. He was born into a non- wealthy, farming family and was born with the name Lhamo Thondup. At the age of two, he was sought out to see if he qualified to be the next Dalai Lama. When he was tested, he did in fact qualify and was moved into a Buddhist monastery to begin training for the position of the fourteenth Dalai Lama. I feel that the fourteenth Dalai Lama brought the most positive change to Tibet and its people because he
He took part in the unification of Tibet (Dalai Lama 7-8). This helped Tibet gain more control over their people and their administration (Thurman The 14th Dalai Lama). He helped them gain the peace, by doing things involving the Five Point Peace Plan, etc. The fourteenth Dalai Lama is also respected in the way that he is a national public figure of speech, intelligence and religion (Thurman The 14th Dalai Lama). To show how much he is respected for his acts involving the government and culture, Tibetans and other followers bow before him to show their leader respect (Stewart 58).
The fourteenth Dalai Lama is motivated by “The fastening of inter-religious harmony and the welfare of the Tibetan People”. He is also motivated by “The promotion of human well-being or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness especially in the Tibetan culture” (Thurman The 14th Dalai Lama). This shows how the Dalai Lama cares about his people’s culture. He wants to protect the culture, and the Tibetans from it/them being destroyed by communist China (Worth