| 10/24/2007 6:37:35 PM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
puzzlequeen
Martinsville, IN
age: 51
| He is here very special but what do people think about it? Just curious?
Puzz
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| 10/24/2007 7:15:41 PM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
krupa1
Abilene, TX
age: 40
| I know that I have a profound respect for Budhist philosophy. I have seen one interview with him and He strikes me as a down-to-earth spiritual soul.
[Edited 10/24/2007 7:16:42 PM]
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| 10/24/2007 9:24:59 PM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
queenofhearts61
Seymour, IN
age: 62
| I agree Krupa, he is a completely different person than I expected. He is down to earth and also he is spiritual not really profoundly budist.
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| 10/24/2007 9:45:47 PM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
chinatown_girl
Oyster Bay, NY
age: 19
| i think he would be very offended if someone said he wasnt profoundly buddhist.
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| 10/24/2007 9:59:19 PM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
truman44114
Cleveland, OH
age: 32
| Whatever he is, he is online!
www.dalailama.com
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| 10/24/2007 10:54:59 PM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
queenofhearts61
Seymour, IN
age: 62
| What I am saying is that when he talked he did not talk with the dogma that many religious people do.
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| 10/25/2007 5:01:33 AM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
9thstwonder
North Beach, MD
age: 50
| Buddhism is not really a religion in its truest form, it is more of a 'way' of life. Although, the type of Buddhism that the Dali Lama practices can be considered a religion because of all of the dogma and doctrine attached to it.
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| 10/26/2007 10:57:01 AM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
queenofhearts61
Seymour, IN
age: 62
| All I know about him is the 2 hour interview I saw of him and I liked what he had to say.
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| 10/26/2007 3:16:17 PM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
wv_dad
Martinsburg, WV
age: 39
| he doesnt impress me.
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| 10/26/2007 4:23:56 PM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
krupa1
Abilene, TX
age: 40
| I doubt she has much of an opinion on a chinese dissident brother....she is more involved in American sociatal politics.
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| 10/27/2007 3:45:15 AM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
chinatown_girl
Oyster Bay, NY
age: 19
| well since slinky wanted to hear from the left...
i only post things that i know about..i don't know much about him...just that he's a tibetian buddhist and has lived in exile in india for almost 50 years, (the home of buddhism but a place where it didnt catch on), that richard gere supports him and that the dalai lama tours around the world.
i did find something just to give another side of the story:
Dalai Lama Anti-Gay, Not Pacifist
Subject: Dalai Lama Anti-Gay, Not Pacifist
for nonviolence "whenever possible," but war is justified at times. ...
okay were World War II and the U.S. war on Korea. He thinks the war on
Vietnam started out right but ended up badly.
The Dalai Lama also praised the bombing of Afghanistan by the United
States ... The Afghans have a very different view of the bombing.
U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq ... it was justified
These views may surprise some who've thought of the Dalai Lama as a
pacifist. ... is no pacifist.
an infatuation with Tibet ... fascination is not with the real Tibet but
a fantasy version. A dose of the real Tibet would leave them deeply
disillusioned."
"The Dalai Lama is very different from the genial figure we see in the West.
the Dalai Lama's anti-lesbian/anti-gay views are ... extreme
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Bush's 'man of peace'
This editorial is from the October 2, 2003, issue of the Workers World
newspaper.
http://www.workers.org/ww/2003/edit1002.php
Bush's 'man of peace'
The New York Times headline on Sept. 18 jumps out: "Dalai Lama says
terror may need a violent reply."
The former monarch of Tibet, despite big advance publicity, drew a
modest crowd to an event in New York's Central Park. Most who showed up
were expecting to hear a message of peace. Perhaps they had heard George
W. Bush call him a man of peace. Before the Dalai Lama went to New York
he met with Bush at the White House where he was received with honors
just one step below those given a head of state. In return, the Dalai
Lama has given his blessing to many of Bush's projects.
In an interview just days before the Central Park event, Tenzin Gyatso,
the last monarch of Tibet, said he was for nonviolence "whenever
possible," but war is justified at times. The particular wars that he
thought okay were World War II and the U.S. war on Korea. He thinks the
war on Vietnam started out right but ended up badly. Badly for whom, he
doesn't say, but the Vietnamese thought it ended well when the U.S.
finally withdrew.
Tenzin "Dalai Lama" Gyatso did not clarify what side he thought was
right in World War II. He had spent most of that war in the company of a
Nazi SS officer, Heinrich Harrer, whose book "My Seven Years in Tibet"
is a fictionalized version of their time together in the 1940s.
The Dalai Lama also praised the bombing of Afghanistan by the United
States Air Force, calling it a "liberation" of the Afghans. (World Tibet
Network News, a support site for the Dalai Lama, has this headline:
"Dalai Lama praises U.S. approach to bombing Afghanistan." www.tibet.ca)
The Afghans have a very different view of the bombing.
As for the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Dalai Lama says it
was justified, though he hedged his support. Like Vietnam, it may end up
going "badly"; the Iraqis may force the U.S. occupiers to leave.
These views may surprise some who've thought of the Dalai Lama as a
pacifist. But Tenzin Gyatso is no pacifist.
As historian A. Tom Grunfeld, author of "The Making of Modern Tibet,"
says, "The Dalai Lama's description of the Tibet under his serfdom rule
as 'Shangri-La' has led to an infatuation with Tibet, which is a fad
that will ultimately fade. ... The fascination is not with the real
Tibet but a fantasy version. A dose of the real Tibet would leave them
deeply disillusioned."
Tenzin Gyatso has many views that would make him quite unpopular if they
were more widely known. In "Cuddly Dalai Lama is our fantasy creation,"
the former director of the so-called Free Tibet Campaign, Patrick
French, says, "The Dalai Lama is very different from the genial figure
we see in the West." (www.smh.com.au) For example, the Dalai Lama's
anti-lesbian/anti-gay views are so extreme his U.S. publisher removed
them from the book "Ethics for the New Millennium" for fear they would
make the book unsaleable.
French worries that the truth about the Dalai Lama is becoming more
widely known and he wants to minimize its impact. The Dalai Lama has
been pumped up by the imperialist West to near-god status because he has
been useful for their campaign to break Tibet away from China.
Hopefully a dose of the real Dalai Lama will put an end to the illusion
that this is someone who is a spokesperson for peace. The real voices
for peace will be in the streets of Washington, D.C., on Oct. 25 making
it clear that peace means ending the occupation of Iraq and bringing the
troops home now, without any qualifications.
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| 10/27/2007 11:11:06 AM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
queenofhearts61
Seymour, IN
age: 62
| As much as I think the war in Iraq was a bad error to just up and leave now would be a disaster for the Iraqi people. There would be slaughter of people all over their country just as there was in Nam and Cambodia when we left there and the people where helpless to protect themselves. We started this we have to end it.
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| 10/27/2007 6:31:08 PM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
chinatown_girl
Oyster Bay, NY
age: 19
| occupation governments have never worked.
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| 10/29/2007 1:29:47 AM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
chinatown_girl
Oyster Bay, NY
age: 19
| wow slinky i did all that research for u and u dont even read it?
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| 10/30/2007 12:34:03 PM | Dahli Lama. What do people think now. | |
knoxsouthy
Knoxville, TN
age: 33
| china,
occupation governments have never worked.
They worked in Germany and Japan.
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