The Dalai Lama: Wisdom Derived From Suffering

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Term Paper Title	The Dalai Lama: Wisdom Derived From Suffering
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The Dalai Lama: Wisdom Derived from Suffering

In His sixty-three years of the current reincarnation, the Dalai Lama has grown from a simple undiscovered child to a world-reknowned symbol of peace. His philosophies were inspired by the early sufferings that are posed the environmental, cultural, religious, and political suppressions. The wretchednesses and the difficulties that he has encountered lead to his wisdom. Combined with His never-ending desire to learn and communicate, The Dalai Lama's philosophies have not only touched the hearts of the six million Tibetan people, but also acquired the general acceptance of the entire world in terms of his teachings of spiritual and mental enrichments. It is pretty hard to imagine the woes that he suffered and the profoundity that contains in His old little body. Nonetheless, dressed in His saffron-and-maroon-colored robes, speaking in an often broken English, and peering at the world through eyes that have lost none of their wonder and decency despite the horrors He has witnessed, the Dalai Lama is seemingly out of place in the modern world. Therefore, the phenomenon stired our curiosity to find out His glamour and manetism to people.
Based on His book "My Land and My People", we follow that the exiled leader has seen all the myriad dangers facing the modern world unleashed upon his own country: wars, ecological destruction, and the trampling of human rights, political justice, and religious freedoms in the name of supposed political, economic, and ideological progress (The Dalai Lama of Tibet 15). According to the autobiography of the Dalai Lama, as early as 1950, He was confronted with China's desire to peacefully liberate Tibet of its foreign influences. By 1951, this so-called "peaceful liberation" created a previously unseen starvation and heavy inflation in the Tibetan population (His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama 85). Because the Tibetan culture centered on its strong Buddhist heritage, the subsequent burnings of the temples, the banishment and massacre of the monks, and Chairman Mao's imposed belief that "Religion is poison" all presented a threat to their culture and religious beliefs (His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama 296). In China's point of vew, the religious faith of the Tibetans, which they saw as backward and antithetical to the spread of communism. The Tibetans resisted the oppression, and China responded with brutal crackdowns, arrests, and imprisonments. Last but not least, ...

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