The Dalai Lama is the temporal and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people; he received the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award‚ the Raoul Wallenberg Congressional Human Rights Award and the Nobel Peace Prize. He is a man who embodies actions of peace. The Dalai Lama is a Buddhist and a guru; he is thought to be the reincarnation of a series of many spiritual leaders‚ chosen specifically to enlighten the lives of other humans. I am very inspired by his personality‚ role in society and actions. “How
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Ethics of compassion To help explain the ethics of compassion I will be using reference from the Dalia Lama’s book Ethics for the New Millennium‚ more specifically chapter ten; The Need for Discernment‚ and chapter 5 The Supreme Emotion. I will also refer to Touching Peace‚ and the five mindfulness trainings. The Dalia Lama had so many strong points it was hard to find any criticisms in his philosophies. One thing that concerned me was how he recognizes people who kill and torture for pleasure
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The India we want 2 Dec 2007‚ 0021 hrs IST ‚ SWAPAN DASGUPTA ‚ TNN Print Save EMail Write to Editor The controversy over Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has forced Indians to confront a larger question: what sort of an India do we want to live in? The answers are neither easy nor uncontested. For a start‚ there is the weight of inheritance. When minister of external affairs Pranab Mukherjee invoked ’’civilisational heritage’’ in Parliament to define the government’s
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The Earth Is Our Only Home! The Importance of Environmental Protection & Practical Steps to Support It By Ven. Jampa Since the second half of the 20thcentury‚ the results of environmental destruction and the exploitationof natural resources have become increasingly obvious. Now‚ 7 billion people are sharing this planet‚ and scientists predict that the population will increase to 10 billion people in this century. However‚ we already face difficulties with dwindling natural resources and environmentalpollution
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Chinese Incursion in Ladakh: Rationale and Gains Although for centuries‚ the Himalayas served as a natural barrier between the Tibetan plateau and the Indian subcontinent‚ it was also a space of exchange for constant flow of knowledge‚ traditions and goods transiting up and down from faraway places in Central Asia‚ China or Mongolia to the entire subcontinent. But the drawing of borders based on modern nation state model so as to define territorial limits of every state has led clashes
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Forty years ago‚ the Indian nation was convulsed by fear and eventual humiliation as its army was vanquished by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in a bitter and cold battle in the Northeast. Forty years later‚ India has repaired its relationship with the Chinese to some extent‚ but those wounds have not been forgotten. Excuses have been thrown up for the military debacle. India was ill prepared; it believed in non-violence; it trusted the Chinese and in ’Hindi-Chini bhai bhai’. Fingers have
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Indian geography is a showcase of diversity. It is the world’s largest democracy that occupies around 73 % of Southern Asia. With a population of 1.2 billion‚ India is one of the most populous nations in the world and falls slightly behind China. India‚ which is 12 times largest that UK and 8 times largest than Japan occupies just 2.4 % of the total surface of the earth in spite of being seventh largest in regards to the total covering area. India’s landscape varies from snow-capped peaks to deserts
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Significant Concept: Goldstein’s article focuses on the overlap between the domestic group‚ defined as those individuals that live in a single household together‚ and the kin group‚ or people who view themselves as relatives‚ within a certain Tibetan society near Limi‚ Nepal. According to the article‚ the idea of polygyny - the taking of more than one wife by a single man - is practiced by consanguine brothers for primarily economic reasons in addition to reasons of tradition. Because of the time
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Cultural genocide in Tibet compared to the Holocaust The Holocaust has many tragedies and losses‚ it is considered the biggest genocide in history. The cultural genocide in Tibet also had many losses and was one of the worst in history. The cultural genocide in Tibet consisted mainly of torturing their victims to death‚ whereas in the Holocaust they were killed quick many at a time. The cultural genocide of Tibet started when the Chinese declared that Tibet should be part of China. Years
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Name: Garfield The Relationship between Language and Ethnic Identity in China: A focus on the Tibetan Language To begin with‚ according to the background history of the Tibetan language‚ it is not mere a language like modern English with a wide extend of speakers who can comprehend each other easily depending on familiar vocabulary‚ grammar. As an old linguistic proverb states: “a dialect is a language without an army and a language is a dialect with an army‚ and Tibetan can be considered
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