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DALAI LAMATENZIN GYATSO
NOBEL PRICE 1989
IN RECOGNITION OF HIS NONVIOLENT
CAMPAIGN OVER NEARLY 40 YEARS
TO END CHINA'S DOMINATION OF HIS
HOMELAND.
HE SAID
“I very much appreciate that kind of
recognition about my beliefs ”. “My case is
nothing special. I am a simple Buddhist
monk - no more, no less.”
HIS LIFE BORN: 6 JULY 1935 as LHAMO
DHONDUP AGE OF TWO: RECOGNISED US
REINCARNATION OF THE PREVIOUS LAMA THUBTEN GYATSO
HE WAS NAMED TENZIN GYATSO HE BEGAN HIS MONASTIC EDUCATION
AT 6
AT 23 HE WAS AWARDED THE GESHE
LHARAMPA DEGREE (EQUIVALENT TO
A DOCTORATE OF BUDDHIST
PHILOSOPHY)
LEADER SHIP RESPONSABILITIES
1950 FULL POLITICAL POWER AFTER CHINA INVASION TO THIBET.
1954 PEACE TALKS IN CHINA.
1959 ESCAPE IN EXIL IN DHARAMSALA (INDIA).
LEADER SHIP RESPONSABILITIES
1964 PRESENTATION OF A DRAFT OF
DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION NAMED
“THE CHARTER OF TIBETIANS IN EXILE”
PEACE INITIATIVES 1987:PROPOSAL OF A 5 POINT PEACE
PLAN FOR TIBET
1988: IN ADRESS TO EUROPEAN PARLEMENT IN STRASBOURG PROPOSAL OF TALKS BETWEEN CHINAESE AND THIBETIAN LEADERS
POLITICAL RETIREMENT 2011: LETTER TO TIBETIAN PARLEMENT IN
EXILE HE REQUEST THEM TO DEVOLVE HIM OF HIS POLITICAL POWER.
2011: HE SIGNED THE FORMAL TRANSFER OF HIS TEMPORAL POWER
END OF 368 YEARS OLD TRADITION OF THE DALAI LAMAS BEEING BOTH SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL HEAD OF THIBET
DALAI LAMAS QUOTES We all have to live together, so we
might as well live together happily.Dalai Lama
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
Disagreement is something normal.
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