14th Dalai Lama
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He was found in a farming village at age two, recognized as the reincarnation of Tibet's highest spiritual leader, then spent fifteen years learning to rule before China's annexation forced him into permanent exile. From a hillside in India, he's led a government without a country for over six decades.
Born Lhamo Thondup on 6 July 1935 in Amdo, he was selected as the tulku of the 13th Dalai Lama in 1937 and enthroned in Lhasa in 1940. After PRC forces annexed Central Tibet in the Battle of Chamdo, he assumed temporal power at fifteen in 1950. The 1959 Tibetan uprising sent him across the border; he established a government in exile in Mussoorie that April, then moved it to Dharamsala in 1960. He has advocated the Middle Way Approach since the early 1970s — seeking autonomy within China rather than independence — and retired as political head in 2011 to make way for democracy. He taught world…
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It is very good to recite the mantra Om mani padme hum, but while you are doing it, you should be thinking on its meaning, for the meaning of the six syllables is great and vast.
What is the Great Vehicle? What is the mode of procedure of the Bodhisattva path?
Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.
My true religion is Kindness.
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible.
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