The Fruitless Pursuit of The Dalai Lama and Pope John Paul II

In today 's world, the role of technology has become primal and a necessity in our daily lives. In The Dalai Lama, we are able to see the astounding capabilities that the new technological advancements are able to do. However, to only a certain extent are these advancements beneficial, as these improvements can as well lead to serious matters in regards to our system of ethics and moral reasoning. By being able to establish a limit on the use of these advancements, it is possible to create a balance between the benefits of the technological improvements and being able to maintain a system of global ethics. The role of genetic manipulation, cloning and selection of traits all have potential in providing humanity with assistance in making daily living an unchallenging asset.

In the Dalai Lama’s writing of The Role of Religion of Modern Society, I agree with him on how each religion can be true and help people to respect one another no matter the religion they practice. While growing up most humans are taught to practice one religion, in which they inherited from their parents and most of the time both parents practice the same religion. So children are taught to follow and believe that their religion is the most valid and true. In my case I disagree with these types of people and agree with The Dalai Lama, because I grew up both Jewish and Christian. Being able to learn and practice both religions, I noticed the similarities and differences and learned to believe each religion is true.

The Dalai Lama once said, “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” The meaning of this quote is that everyone needs love and compassion and that everyone can have love and compassion in their lives. There are many things that are “luxuries” and are not available to everyone, but love and compassion come at no cost. Anyone, no matter if they are poor, can have love and compassion in their lives. Love and compassion are the key to happiness and that is available to everyone. Love and compassion directly tie into shared humanity because love and compassion are a part of each of the shared humanity categories. Shared humanity ecompasses six categories that all humans share: relationship, loss, emotion, survival, choice, and morality.

Most  religious  leaders  come  to  power  through  elections  or  appointment.          However,  the  leader  of  the  Gelug  school  of  Tibetan  Buddhism,  the  Dalai  Lama,  is  simply  found.          Buddhists  believe  in    reincarnation,    the  idea  that  a  person’s  soul  never  dies  and  is  instead  born  into  a  new  body.          Additionally,    the  death  of  one  Dalai  Lama  spurs  the  quest  for  a  young  person  born  with  that  special  soul. The  search  for  the  fourteenth 

In 1950, China sent 40,000 Chinese troops, ironically known as “the People’s Liberation Army”, to invade a relatively large and peaceful country named Tibet for their abundant resources. Due to this national crisis, the position of the 14th Dalai Lama was given to Tenzin Gyatso (“Birth to Exile”). Over the next few decades, China’s harassment of Tibet caused a myriad of problems, such as famines, the destruction of many sacred Buddhist monasteries and other cultural sites, etc. Thirty year after the initial Chinese invasion, the people of Tibet protested out of outrage that nothing has changed for thirty years, to which China responded with brutal force to stop the protesters. Due to the Dalai Lama’s

Rotting corpses and a river of blood is something that we wish no person would have to see and hope that children would be far from included in these bloody wars. There is no hiding from the fact that children not only in Africa but in the Middle-East as well will experience this sight everyday. Written by Ishmael Beah, “A Long Way Gone” shows whether they are child soldiers or fleeing refugees every passing corpse will continue to scar their minds. The dead oppress these kids more and more to the sight of massacred villages until they’re surprised to see what used to be an average village to them. A village that is breathing life not breeding

The Dalai Lama once said, “Major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness… the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives” (Huffington Post). This quote by the Dalai Lama speaks to the issues of pluralism and interfaith understanding. Pluralism is used to describe the diversity of different cultures and how they actively interact with one another. It engages the differences between cultures to obtain a deeper, more profound understanding of each other’s beliefs. To engage in pluralism means to equally support, accept and participate in the decisions of various religious groups as well as placing a positive value on faith and practice. In pluralism, all religious practices are considered beneficial as long as they follow the laws of the state and do not harm individuals within the community.

On the bright side, violence in today’s world has actually declined, as evidenced by the fact that “the murder rate has steadily dropped in every subsequent century” since the fifteenth century, according to Jones. That could be an interesting interpretation of Dr. Pangloss’s “best of all possible worlds” philosophy, if one is comparing the current time period with previous time periods. Either way, Dr. Pangloss seems to view the world in an overly optimistic manner, while many people today view current times in an unreasonably pessimistic manner, like Martin, which demonstrates the complexity and difficulty in reaching one definitive conclusion about all current human

Everything started when the 13th died, and the tibetan government saturated to look the reincarnation of the new Dalai Lama. Using their mythical techniques to find the new Dalai Lama. Turning from the north to the South the suspected that the new ruler will be found in that region of Tibet. They got like a vision of the sacred lake Lhamo Lhatso. Following their vision, a search party that was hosted by Admo decided that they will go there to investigate. When they found a statue of turquoise and gold structure they thought they were even closer and closer to the new ruler. They stayed there the whole night to investigate if their little Lhamo Thondup.e 3 year old son called, Lhamo Thondup. The

When I lived in the South Pacific for two years, I learned what it was like to be a part of communal living where everyone helps one another on a daily basis, very different from the individualistic United States. This chapter also discusses justice and how we often see the need for structural change by acting from mercy (Pg. 133). I found this to be a very good point I had not previously thought of. When we seek to help others, we are able to better understand their situation.

For millennia, the deliberate development of compassion for all living beings, including oneself, has been one of the great healing traditions of Eastern wisdom. The Dalai Lama, for example, points out that compassion can quite literally transform our minds, and recent neuroimaging and behavioral research has supported this observation.

The Dalai Lama has also challenged adherents to accept the fate that is given to them and make the greatest use of their reincarnated form. As a young child he was unable to reject the position of ‘Dalai Lama’ however he has managed to utilise this position to the best advantage and has bettered the world through this. He has pushed for the bettering of the world for both religious and secular societies. His messages of peace, tolerance and the renunciation of the desires of anger and revenge have resonated with people globally.

“We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.” Famed human rights activist Mahatma Gandhi explains that violence has become all too mundane in the Modern Day; humans have become far too comfortable with committing atrocities. Furthermore, the path of violence is a sinister one, the end only brings suffering and death, and escape is all but impossible. Throughout history violence has been present throughout all interactions of mankind, the human race has killed millions of its own, and burned great empires to nothing more than rubble. Thus, the question arises, how does

The Dalai Lama is the Tibetans’ political and spiritual leader. He is the most important leader in Tibet. The Dalai Lama is a monk of the Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso. Tenzin Gyatso was born Lhamo Thondup on July 6, 1935, in Taktser, China. He has been a monk all his life.

Among world leaders, there is no one like His Holiness the Dalai Lama, religious and political leader of Tibet and winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize. Brought up from an unusual childhood, he became head of the state of Tibet at age 16, and was later forced into exile by the Chinese government. Despite all the hardship he had to endure he does not give up his fight for freedom and treats all sentiment beings with love and compassion. Through his fight for freedom, he has proven himself to be the spiritual and political leader whom the people of Tibet love.