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"The Role of Religion in Modern Society"
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Dalai Lama
(b. 1935)
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Lhamo Dhondup was born to a poor farming family in northeastern Tibet. At the
age of two, he was renamed Tenzin Gyatso (which means “ocean of wisdom”) when he
was recognized as the incarnation of the thirteenth Dalai Lama. He underwent eighteen
years of religious and philosophical studies leading to the Tibetan equivalent of a Ph.D. in
Buddhist studies. In 1950, when he was sixteen, the Chinese army invaded Tibet, and he
assumed full political powers and attempted to negotiate with Mao Zedong. He escaped
into exile in 1959, along with eighty thousand Tibetans, to Dharamasala in northern
India, where he still resides. From there, he has waged a nonviolent campaign to free
Tibet from the Chinese; he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. His published works
include Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama (1990) and the bestselling
Ethics for a New Millennium (1999), in which the following essay first appeared.
Web Destinations
A Spiritual Leader in Exile
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Mother Jones
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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His Holiness in NYC
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Biography
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