Dalai Lama

Bio:

Introduction : Dalai Lama is a Buddhist religious leader. He is a man of extraordinary personality, always smiling, peace-loving, lively, intelligent.

Early life : He was born on July 7, 1935, to a peasant family in Taktse, northeast China. His father's name Choekyoung Tsering and his mother’s name Diki Tsering . He started taking religious education from the age of six. He studied Tibetan art and culture, medicine and Buddhist philosophy. At the age of 11, he met an Austrian mountaineer who taught him about the outside world .

Leadership : In 1950, at the age of 16, when Tibet fell to Chinese power, he became an official in Tibet's political power. He was forced into exile in India in 1959 after the Chinese military occupation of Tibet. He has lived in Dharamsala since 1960, known as Little Lhasa. During his exile, he appealed to the United Nations, which resulted in the adoption of three General Assembly resolutions in 1959, 1961 and 1965. In 1977, at the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, he proposed a five-point peace plan as the first step in resolving Tibet's future, and called for "sincere discussions" on the future of Tibet and relations between the Tibetan and Chinese peoples. . He described the five-point peace plan in detail in Strasbourg, France, on June 15, 1988, and "proposed to form a self-governing democratic Tibet by uniting with democratic China." The Dalai Lama called for the restoration of Tibet's separate identity and the restoration of the basic rights of the Tibetan people in line with China's own interests. "

Receipt of prizes : During his travels abroad, his holiness spread to many parts of the world, especially to the West. At the presentation of the Raoul Wallenberg Congressional Human Rights Award in 1989, US Congressman Tom Lantos said, His strength and courage are needed to end the suffering of the Tibetans through peaceful dialogue and reconciliation. When the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Dalai Lama in 1979, it gained worldwide acclaim, apart from China.

Conclusion : "I am just an ordinary Buddhist monk, no more, no less," he said. Holiness follows the life of a Buddhist monk. At the hospice, he was arrested at 4 a.m. Rises to mediate, following an ongoing schedule of administrative meetings, private audiences and religious education and ceremonies. He ended each day by praying more before retiring. In explaining the source of his greatest inspiration, he often quotes a favorite verse, found in the writings of the famous eighth-century Buddhist saint Sher. He is a symbol of universal peace. He is also a political dissenter, whom Mao's Chinese Premier Zhu Enlai called 'a wolf in the guise of a saint'!