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The Dalai Lama's home is about 150 miles from the country he leads, in a remote corner of northern India that is reached only after a difficult journey between mountain crags and steep drops. He lives an ascetic and celibate existence, rising at 3:30 AM for his first hours of prayer. His diet is simple with a small amount of meat. Though Buddhists avoid killing animals for food, they do eat meat when killed by others. He exercises, and pays great attention to the news, enjoying nature and science stories. His hobby is fixing watches, but he "totally blanks out" with computers.
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The Dalai Lama's mother was illiterate but was a natural storyteller. When her granddaughter asked her to talk about her life, the stories began to roll out. She told of her wedding at the age of 16, her state of virtual servitude as a married woman, murderous ghosts, and her two dead sons left for the birds. Then, after a three-year drought and other strange events preceding the birth of her fifth child, the lamas came from Lhasa, and her Cinderella future was cinched. With her son the Dalai Lama ensconced in his palace, this nondescript peasant woman whose 16 children yielded three incarnate lamas, strolled her garden estate and hobnobbed with the aristocracy. And yet the intrigue, the perils of domestic and international politics, would soon take her husband's life, drive her remaining children into exile, and have her yearning for the quiet drudgery of her former life.
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The Dalai Lama has won world wide acclaim and the Nobel Peace Prize (1989) for his role in promoting a non violent response to the problems faced by the Tibetans. Faced with the most trying of circumstances he has sought to apply Buddhist principles of non violence in both action and thought. His writings on these subjects have ... become best sellers in the West, helping to spread the Buddhist message around the world.
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THE Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, has had a triumphal tour, albeit somewhat against the odds, in Australia. The high points were his meetings with Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd.
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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will give commentary on the 11th Century meditator Langri Thankgpa's root text on training the mind. A teaching on how to cultivate the deeper human values of compassion and kindness, qualities which are embraced by all religious traditions and a topic that the Dalai Lama strongly advocates to audiences during his many travels around the world. The Teaching will be given on Sunday, May 6, 2007 at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. The doors to the theater will open at 8:00 a.m.; the Teaching will begin at 9:30 a.m.
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Dalai Lama began his education at the age of six and completed the Geshe Lharampa Degree (Doctorate of Buddhist Philosophy) when he was 25. Unlike his predecessors, His Holiness has met and talked with many Westerners and has visited the United States, Canada, Western Europe, the United Kingdom, Russia, Mongolia, Greece, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Nepal, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Vatican, China and Australia. He has met with religious leaders from all these countries. Since his first visit to the West in the early 1970s, His Holiness' reputation as a scholar and man of peace has grown steadily. In recent years, a number of western universities and institutions have conferred Peace Awards and honorary Doctorate Degrees upon His Holiness in recognition of his distinguished writings in Buddhist philosophy and of his distinguished leadership in the service of freedom and peace.
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