Yangchen lhamo biography of abraham lincoln
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The Life of the 8th Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje
His Holiness the Karmapa started today’s teachings by sending his greetings to Bokhar Khen Rinpoche, whom he saw in the audience yesterday, as well as to the Khenpos and Geshes, the nuns of the shedras, foremost among the sangha, as well as all the Dharma friends who were watching over the webcast.
Referring to what he had mentioned the day before, he explained that although he had planned to speak about Mikyö Dorje’s birthplace and birth region, he decided that it would be much better to say as much as he could at the respective time rather than trying to push through, thinking, “I have to say this, I have to say that, I have to teach this today and that tomorrow”… Thus, although he had prepared a schedule accordingly, he found that to follow such a schedule did not really work.
Following his initial remarks, the Karmapa then turned towards the second verse of Mikyö Dorje’s autobiographical text, Good Deeds:
Without disdaining inauthentic gurus and companions
Or following them along the paths they taught,
I did all I could to overcome the thoughts of the three poisons—
Impediments to reaching the dharma’s culmination.
I think of this as one of my good deeds.
His Holiness explained that the topic of the second good deed i
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The Life submit Jamgon Kongtrul the Great
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The first-ever finalize biography make acquainted Tibet's uttermost famous oecumenic Buddhist lama
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Tibetan Democracy: Governance, Leadership and Conflict in Exile 9781350989450, 9781786730466
Table of contents :
Front Cover
Author biography
Endorsements
Title
Copyright
Contents
Map: Tibetan settlements in India
List of Illustrations
Preface
Note on Language
Abbreviations
Introduction Tibetan Exile, Democracy and Translation
1. The Dalai Lama and Authoritative Speech
2. The Model Settlement
3. Dharamsala Democrats and Organisations
4. A Place for Buddhism in Democracy?
5. ‘I Don’t Like Politics, But I Love My Country’
6. Freedom Struggle over Democracy
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Back Cover
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Trine Brox is Associate Professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. A specialist on Tibet, she is co-editor with Ildiko´ Belle´r-Hann of On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society: Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China (2014).
‘Trine Brox plunges us into the transformations, translations, paradoxes and contradictions of democracy as a sacred gift decreed from above by the Dalai Lama, now rapidly maturing into distinctively Tibetan forms. The tensions between democracy as an inborn right, democracy as modernity, democracy as legitimacy, democracy as a support for or a threat to national unity, are fully