He met with Michael Palin (BBC)... what's not to like?
/johnny
So pretty much China controls the world’s international policy.
He was a man of faith using spiritual courage to resist the forces of Communist oppression.
Liberals hate people like that.
The only people who ever welcomed him were conservatives and men of principle.
There are very few of those left.
I always thought he was a globalist con-man.
“pain is inevitable,suffering is optional… we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.”
- Dalai Lama XIV
From Wikipedia:
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. Born in the Shakya republic in the Himalayan foothills, he is believed to have lived and taught mostly in eastern India sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE --B.C.
The word Buddha means "awakened one" or "the enlightened one." "Buddha" is also used as a title for the first awakened being in an era. In most Buddhist traditions, Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (Pali sammāsambuddha, Sanskrit samyaksaṃbuddha) of our age.
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How VERY far away that is from the Christ.
I have gotten to meet him in person. Twice. He’s got a great laugh. But if you take a look at Buddhism , it has virtually aided and abetted in its own extinction, from rabid islam , over history. Buddhist either run , hide , or are slaughtered. There is hardly a better example than at the MahaBodhi temple in Bodh Gaya India , where a mosque blasts the holiest compound in Buddhism every day at just before 5:am. And they tolerate that . They tolerate the intolerable , as do many Americans these days.
When I was very young I went to Tibet. Really fell a little in love with the people and culture. Tibetan Buddhism seems like a decent faith, for Tibetan Buddhists. I certainly have decent respect for them and their leader who doesn’t cause any problems in the world.
The one-l lama
He's a priest
The two-l llama
He's a beast
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn't any
Three-l lllama
Leni
Hollywood liberals loved him as they
loved the most popular bad boy in
high school.
They thought he could do damage
to traditional Christian culture
in the West.
Now that the most effective “bad boy” is
China, they love “Maoism” even more.
Well, hello, Dalai.
Yes, hello, Dalai.
It’s so nice to have you back
Where you belong.
I’ve always viewed the Dalai Lama as a shrewd businessman rather than as a holy man. He knows who butters his bread in the West (liberals), so he usually mouths liberal pieties. He screwed up once or twice with comments on homosexuality, but now he’s back on message. He says trendy things like “on economics, I’m a Marxist,” and so forth, and seems to spend a lot of time writing his own books and writing prefaces for other people’s books. His writing mostly consists of platitudes.
I met him and shook his hand once outside of an elevator. Seemed like a nice guy.
In an age of realpolitik and the appeasement of international bullies, the Dalai Lama’s altruism gives everyone the pip.
Stalin is Obama’s hero, not this gentle Tibetan.