Anonymous ID: 476067 Feb. 17, 2019, 8:23 a.m. No.5223545   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3860

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http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/18/local/me-blum18

 

Buddhists are deep in the DEEP STATE CONNECTION TO CORRUPTION.

 

RICHARD BLUM LOVED HIS LITTLE TIBETAN BOYS AND DALAI LAMA KNEW.

 

EXPLAINS HIS CONNECTION TO NEXIUM, TOO.

Anonymous ID: 476067 Feb. 17, 2019, 8:56 a.m. No.5223879   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3901

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It was the practice of the first thirteen Dalai Lamas, a lineage dating to the 15th century, to never or rarely leave Tibet. Few ever traveled even to neighboring India or China.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, who will mark his eighty-second birthday on July 6, is, in contrast, a man of his era.

 

As Dan Goleman writes in the July 2017 issue of Lion’s Roar, a lively publication on contemporary ideas of Tibetan Buddhism, His Holiness travels widely, “meeting people of all kinds, heads of state and world-class scientists, spiritual leaders and financiers, slum dwellers and social activists. Our concerns are his, whoever we are.”

A friend of mine for more than forty years, His Holiness is a warm, open person with a sharp wit and an easy laugh.

Although certainly not by choice, he has been anchored most of his life—more than sixty years—in Dharamsala, India, in exile from China-controlled Tibet.

His first trip to the United States was to San Francisco in 1979, shortly after my wife, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, became mayor. His message was greeted warmly in our city, a milestone that contributed over time to accelerating international calls for China to end its repressive policies toward the Tibetan people.

Nearly a decade later, in 1988, the International Campaign for Tibet was founded. Now with offices in Washington, Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin, this NGO advocates for Tibetans’ freedom and human rights and protecting Tibetan culture and environment. The American Himalayan Foundation embraces many of these goals.

His Holiness has not been the official leader of Tibet’s exiled government since he handed over his formal political authority to an elected leader in 2011. He remains not only Tibetan Buddhists’ spiritual leader, of course, but one of the world’s most admired and inspirational voices for peace and compassion.

The Chinese government has already staked out plans publicly to identify a 15th Dalai Lama, a shameful ploy to inject state influence into the future of Tibetan Buddhism in China. An estimated 400 million Buddhists live in China, including, as His Holiness often notes, the mother of Chinese leader Xi Jingping.