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Tibetan Buddhists feel that throughout history many souls who approach Nirvana decide to return to earth to help others in times of need. A person who turns down Nirvana to help others is called a Bodhisattva. To Tibetans. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is just such a Bodhisattva. Tibetans consider...
Forty years and vast oceans of experience later, the Dalai Lama feels that his mission as a spiritual leader extends beyond Tibet. "As long as there are sentient beings to be liberated from suffering and unhappiness, I will work for the sake of all of them," he said last Thursday...
Perhaps Tibet's adherence to spiritual goals like loving enemies and avoiding violence helped to make China's vanquishment of Tibet so complete. Along with the thousands of armed batallions that marched into Tibet in 1959 came over five million Chinese "settlers." The Chinese indiscriminately murdered the Tibetans, dismembering and...
At the request of the U.S. State Department, the Dalai Lama de-emphasized politics in this visit to the United States, according to Jan Anderson, media coordinator for His Holiness in this country. Permission for his visit seemed to rest on the recent U.S. recognition of China and the U.S...
But for now the monetarists are in control, and they have tied President Carter's hands as well. He couldn't come up with an anti-inflation policy of his own that businessmen wouldn't laugh at, so he's stuck with Volcker's by default. And we will suffer...