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Dalai Lama (Famous quotes (My religion is very simple. My religion is…
Dalai Lama
Famous quotes
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Tibet wants autonomy, not independence
Tenzin Gyatso
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He lives in exile
During the 1959 Tibetan uprising, the Dalai Lama fled to India, where he currently lives as a refugee
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He has worked to overcome sectarian and other divisions in the exiled community and has become a symbol of Tibetan nationhood for Tibetans both in Tibet and in exile
Tibet / China history
In 1959 the 14th Dalai Lama fled Tibet to northern India under cover where he established the Central Tibetan Administration.
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Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the Chinese were Communists
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The period from 1959-1962 was marked by extensive starvation during the Great Chinese Famine brought about by drought and by the Chinese policies of the Great Leap Forward which affected all of China and not only Tibet.
Talks between representatives of the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government began again in May, 2008 with little result
The role
Religious Leader
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The traditional function of the Dalai Lama is an ecumenical figure, holding together disparate religious and regional groups
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Political Leader
From 1642 until 1705, and from 1750 to the 1950s, the Dalai Lamas or their regents headed the Tibetan government
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Since the time of the fifth Dalai Lama, his personage has always been a symbol of unification of the state of Tibet
The Dalai Lama was an important figure of the Geluk tradition, which was politically and numerically dominant in Central Tibet
