Dalai Lama - 70

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Today as messengers of the Divine Omnipresent Teaching in their own words

and ways are many saints in the world. Approaches are different but the aim is

one and the same with Swami's Teaching. They all help to spread spiritual

culture among humans for the benefit their development. Among the today's

saints Dalai Lama is the highest.

He turns 70 on July 6, 2005.

Dalai Lama has grown far larger than his cause and become a global

conscience keeper.

Although Tibet remains the centrepiece of the Dalai Lama's life, his

influence transcends beyond some six million Tibetans and a geographical

entity, which is one fourth of China. It is a serious struggle for him to

confine himself to just Tibet any longer, considering that he has built up an

ever-growing following internationally.

In 1978, when he first came to the US, his supporters could not muster up a

couple of hundred people. "They did not understand whether the Dalai Lama was

human or animal," the Dalai Lama said with his trademark belly-shaking

laughter.

Now his lectures routinely attract thousands of people. According to Jeffery

Paine, author of the celebrated book "Re-enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes To

The West", the number of Buddhist followers has doubled faster than any other

religion or philosophy.

Yet, for the Dalai Lama, it has never been about expanding his flock. "I

want no one to become Buddhist because I am a Buddhist. I just want them to be

compassionate and decent in whatever faith they practise. Buddhism is not about

conversion," he said.

Having been stateless for 46 years, the Dalai Lama has been compelled to

cast himself as a global citizen even as he pushes the cause of Tibet with

relentless, albeit as some say compromising, vigour. Now that complete

independence for Tibet is no longer the mainstay of his campaign, having

replaced it with autonomy, the Dalai Lama is genuinely hopeful that he would

return to the "land of snows" in his lifetime.

At 70 he is the longest living of the 14 Dalai Lamas, and age is certainly a

factor for him as well as the Tibetans. "I always think that when Tibet is at

such a critical juncture, it will not do if I do not live," the Dalai Lama said

in the midst of a series of prayers for his long life held by the Central

Tibetan Administration in McLeodganj, the seat of his government-in-exile in

India.

He came to India in exile when he was only 24 years old and has over the

past four and a half decades transformed himself from being a mystical figure

that Tibetans revere and worship in hushed tones with unquestioning faith into

a democrat open to critical scrutiny.

"He is quite prepared to make himself completely redundant to secular

affairs and pursue his passion for Buddhist studies as an ordinary monk. But we

all know that the Dalai Lama enjoys extraordinary love and respect among the

Tibetan people. He has said he will remain in whatever role the people choose

for him," according his secretary and trusted aide Tenzin Geyche Tethong.

While the seven-century-old institution of the Dalai Lama retains much of

its powerful pull on the minds of the Tibetan people, Tenzin Gyatso has

steadfastly put a democratic structure since his arrival in India in 1959.

Rising from a simple peasant family from the village of Tengster, with a

population a few hundred in Amdo province of Tibet, the Dalai Lama has for over

six and a half decades been showered with attention reserved for divinity.

Quite easily he has been the most influential of all Dalai Lamas,

considering the modern context of his rise. Since the 1970s he has visited

dozens of countries, carrying with him his message of compassion without

selling any religion unlike any comparable religious figure. The only other

figure who carried the kind of moral authority without any aggressive

religiosity was Mahatma Gandhi, whom the Dalai Lama considers an avatar.

When the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to confer the 1989 Nobel Peace

prize on him, it noted with obvious discomfiture the omission of Gandhi from

the list. The Dalai Lama himself, however, has always been described as a

passionate follower of Gandhi. Interestingly, there are many who see him in

some sense as Gandhi's worthy successor.

As his special envoys concluded the fourth round of talks with their

Chinese counterparts in Bern, Switzerland, June 29-30, the hope of finding an

amicable solution to one of the most intractable issues of our time has

remained eternal.

"Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy worked for India, why would it not work for

us?" the Dalai Lama once wondered. The question was, of course, rhetorical.

 

Source:

http://spirituality.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1160741,curpg-1.cms

 

Namaste - Reet

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-does the Dalai Lama know about our Avatar Sri Sathya Sai Baba? Has he ever met

Him or dreamed about Him/ Would you know? About Mother Teresa? she was so

close, in Calcutta, to South India, and I know, through reading all books of

our beloved Professor N. Kasturi that he traveled in Calcutta and met her a few

times, during the time he was involved with Sai Baba . Thank you. With love.

Kavi. SAI RAM

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Sai Ram Kavi,

I hope this can help to partly answer your question... Maybe someone else will

be able to enlighten you more.

Lecture by the Dalai Lama at the Sathya Sai International Centre in Delhi (April 15th 2004)...

http://www.saibaba.ws/articles1/dalailama.htm

Lots of blessings and Light to you and everyone

OM Sri Sai Ram

Nelly

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- Sai Kavi

saibabanews

Wednesday, July 06, 2005 7:06 PM

[saibabanews] Re: Dalai Lama - 70

.....-does the Dalai Lama know about our Avatar Sri Sathya Sai Baba? Has he ever

met Him or dreamed about Him/ Would you know? About Mother Teresa? she was so

close, in Calcutta, to South India, and I know, through reading all books of

our beloved Professor N. Kasturi that he traveled in Calcutta and met her a few

times, during the time he was involved with Sai Baba . Thank you. With love.

Kavi. SAI RAM

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The Atmic Truth, Swami's Cosmic Form, Cosmic Consciousness, Absolute, God,

Almighty (call as you like) is Omnipresent, Omniscient and there is no need to

meet with each other on the body level. I think that great saints and scholars

have this skill to spread Universal enlightenment to the peoples of world

without personal Swami's Darshan. By my opinion their messages are reflection

of the same Universal Atmic Unity, but there are no the direct influence of

Swami's vibrations, energy as in Swami’s Teaching is.

 

Namaste - Reet

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Sai Ram Reet <reet.priiman (AT) neti (DOT) ee> wrote:

 

Light and Love

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- Sai Kavi

saibabanews

Wednesday, July 06, 2005 7:06 PM

[saibabanews] Re: Dalai Lama - 70

.....-does the Dalai Lama know about our Avatar Sri Sathya Sai Baba? Has he ever

met Him or dreamed about Him/ Would you know? About Mother Teresa? she was so

close, in Calcutta, to South India, and I know, through reading all books of

our beloved Professor N. Kasturi that he traveled in Calcutta and met her a few

times, during the time he was involved with Sai Baba . Thank you. With love.

Kavi. SAI RAM

---------

The Atmic Truth, Swami's Cosmic Form, Cosmic Consciousness, Absolute, God,

Almighty (call as you like) is Omnipresent, Omniscient and there is no need to

meet with each other on the body level. I think that great saints and scholars

have this skill to spread Universal enlightenment to the peoples of world

without personal Swami's Darshan. By my opinion their messages are reflection

of the same Universal Atmic Unity, but there are no the direct influence of

Swami's vibrations, energy as in Swami’s Teaching is.

 

Namaste - Reet