Dalai Lama – All about his life

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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso is recognized worldwide as a torchbearer of peace and inter-religion harmony. He has received the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet. He is also the first Nobel laureate to be recognized for his concern for global environmental problems.

He has traveled all over the world with his message of peace, non-violence, inter-religious harmony, compassion, and universal responsibility.

In his endeavor to help people achieve peace of mind and happiness, he has been engaged in dialogue with modern scientists in various fields like psychology, neurology, cosmology, and even quantum physics. He admired the sharp brain and steadfastness of Stephen Hawking in the face of adversity.

His Holiness follows the tradition to accept the change and believe in practicing Morality, Meditation, and Wisdom. The Dalai Lama follows a balanced diet having both vegetarian and non-vegetarian diets.

Quotes:

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”

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Prof. Svyatoslav Medvedev opening the dialogue with his Holiness
His Holiness The Dalai Lama in conversation with Prof. Svyatoslav Medvedev.

“What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.”

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His Holiness engaging in a dialogue
His Holiness The Dalai Lama engaging in a conversation with his disciples and followers at his residence.

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

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His Holiness giving a short talk online
His Holiness The Dalai Lama giving a short talk online at his residence in Dharmasala in India.

“The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.”

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His Holiness reading
His Holiness The Dalai Lama reading.

“In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.”

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His Holiness leading the Ceremony for Generation the Awakening
Dalai Lama Quotes on Life is one of the most popular ways the His Holiness Dalai Lama Communicates with his People.

“We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.”

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His Holiness interacting with a virtual audience.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama interacting with a virtual audience. Connecting with his people across the world using modern technology.

“A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness”

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His Holiness with the Monks
His Holiness The Dalai Lama interacting speech and some monks worshiping him.

“If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility”

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His Holiness The Dalai Lama giving speech
His Holiness The Dalai Lama connecting the thoughts with a symbol.

“Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.”

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Dalai Lama arriving at the Bihar Judicial Academy
His Holiness The Dalai Lama arriving at the judicial Academy.

“The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inner door. It reduces fear, boosts confidence and brings us inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us to others and brings us a sense of connection to others, and sense of purpose and meaning in life.”

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Dalai Lama planting of Patna High court
His Holiness The Dalai Lama roping a plant in Patna High court.

“The meaning of life is happiness.”

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Dalai Lama lighting a lamp to open the program in Bihar.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama lighting a lamp to open the program in Bihar.

“Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment..

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Sadhguru giving blessings
His Holiness The Dalai Lama introducing a speech.

“The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.”

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Sadhguru performing the yajna
His Holiness the Dalai Lama meeting some people in Highcourt

“I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.”

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His Holiness The Dalai Lama creating a virtual conference
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Introducing a Virtual Conference.

“What is the purpose of life? I believe that the of life is to be happy.”

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His Holiness The Dalai Lama reading Book
His Holiness The Dalai Lama reading Book.

“Most REAL change is slow. Happiness and joy are the purpose of life. If we know that the future will be very dark or painful, then we lose our determination to live. Therefore, life is something based on hope.”

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His Holiness The Dalai Lama in a public place.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama in a public place.

“The purpose of life is to increase the warm heart.”

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His Holiness The Dalai Lama in front of Buddha.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama in front of Buddha.

“Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.”

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His Holiness The Dalai Lama in a march
His Holiness The Dalai Lama in a march with monks.

“Real change in the world will only come from a change of heart.”

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His Holiness The Dalai Lama in a public place
His Holiness The Dalai Lama in a public place and speaking with Media.

“To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.”

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Books:

1. The Meaning of Life: From a Buddhist Perspective

Author: H H Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama Meaning of Life Book
This book gives you an insight into a different perspective for the meaning of life. The author has tried his best to keep it in simple language. A way to get Enlightenment with the help of following Buddhism tradition. How to get rid of life cycles(birth->death-> rebirth) with the principles followed in this book.

2. How to See Yourself As You Really Are: A Practical Guide to Self-Knowledge

Author: H H Dalai Lama

This book is the belief system of Buddhist Tradition. It describes how those beliefs are practiced in Tibetan monasteries. It’s a self-help book where one can evolve spiritually himself by following Buddhist principles. Compassion and Empathy are considered key focused areas to work on for living a peaceful and balanced life. It also helps in creating an environmental balance.

3. The Art Of Happiness: A handbook for living

Author: H H Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutter

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The name of the book defines itself as the nature of the book – Happiness. This book will help you to evolve from suffering and head towards healing yourself. It also covers how to be happy from your inner self and make your nearby environment happy and beautiful. How to manifest happiness is the key point of this book.

4. My Land and My People : Memoirs of The Dalai Lama of Tibet

Author: H H Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama Book: My Land and My People : Memoirs of The Dalai Lama of Tibet
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This book kind of emphasized problems being faced by Buddhist monks in their land and how they overcome with forgiveness and spread peace all over it. There has been a murder and humiliation covered by few sycho centric people to dismantle the Buddhist traditions, however, Dalai Lama took charge from his predecessors and dealt with the situation with compassion and humbleness. Its story of Gratitude versus Fear.

5. Perfecting Patience: Buddhit Techniques to overcome anger

Author: H H Dalai Lama

Perfecting Patience Book
Having tremendous Patience with the right attitude is the key factor where one can balance his life and others around him. This book shows how to practice Patience and tolerance to overcome anxiety, stress, fear, and all other negative energies.

6. Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World

Author: H H Dalai Lama

Beyond Religion Book
This book is not for any religious person. Rather, this book is for those who believe that Humanity is the only religion. Showing Gratitude and Compassionate nature to everyone will only make this world a better place to live. We don’t have to educate our next generation about who is god and who has a superpower, rather teach humanity as the only religion that exists and is seen on daily days of life.

7. Freedom In Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama of Tibet

Author: H H Dalai Lama

Freedom In Exile Book
This book is an insight into Tibetian Buddhist and Dalai lama life. How HH Dalia Lama’s journey was and how the Chinese invaded Tibet and how it affected the people of those times. The story has suffered but how they handle it is really beautiful to understand. A worthy autobiography to read.

8. The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality

Author: H H Dalai Lama

The Universe in a Single Atom Book
This book indeed was praised by many Cosmologists. It’s eye-opening for every human being who has an ‘I’ factor in himself. It’s beautifully written, as you start reading, your ego shatters at every page end. The title is so powerful in itself. He tried his best to put Quantum Physics and mind working in parallel. He claims Science and Spirituality have to be partnered if one is looking for liberation from the mind.

9. My Spiritual Autobiography

Author: H H Dalai Lama

This book is specifically inclined towards the Spiritual journey. A nice yet quite fascinating Spiritual journey of the Dalai Lama is explained in this book. The suffering and the obstacles he had during his Spiritual voyager and how he overcame the battles of humility and grew with compassion and patience.

10. Advice On Dying: And living a Better Life

Author: H H Dalai Lama

Advice On Dying Book
This book is about death. It changes the perspective towards death that we had from our upbringing. This book helps us be conscious about life which we are taking for granted. It signifies the value we have been gifted from the almighty. It also covers, Why we should embrace death and not be afraid of it. It’s more like Sadguru book “Death” (For Shubham, Tag Sadguru)

11. Being Buddha at Work 

Author: H H Dalai Lama

This book helps to manage the corporation with ancient ethical values. It proves that still ancient ethics are not old and cannot be used, indeed those are still very much alive and used to run the global organization. It covers how Buddha principles are very effective in this modern world to run any business.

12. The Four Noble Truths

Author: H H Dalai Lama

The Four Noble Truths Book
This book helps in developing your skill as values which are Compassionate and Gratitude for everyone. to live a balanced life. This book’s content is a combination of a few previous books of Dalia Lama, although it has a new dimension to represent the theme is the same which is eternal.

13. The Good Heart: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Author: H H Dalai Lama

The Good Heart Book
The Dalai Lama in this book provides an extraordinary Buddhist perspective on the teachings of Jesus, commenting on well-known briefs from the four Christian Gospels including the Sermon on the Mount, the parable of the mustard seed, the Resurrection, and others. He emphasizes on teachings of Meditation, Gratitude, inner transformation rather than showing hate and grief.

Videos:

About: How practicing Compassion in life helps not only you to be happy but all others near you. The purpose of life is only to be Happy life.
About: Dalai Lama explains what does successful life means it is to serve others and make a peaceful environment for others. The survival of Humanity is trust and friendship.
About: Dalai Lama explains any religion or community teaches one purpose of life that is Happiness. When we practice being happy, we will notice that each cell of our body is working in alignment with nature, which eventually makes the environment happy around us.
About: Money, fame, facilities, Good physical body will bring you more worries, stress, and anxiety. Non -Violence is a sign of strength, it does not mean bowing down to others. How embracing Inner values, Humanity will bring compassion within and around you.

Facts:

What is the Dalai Lama’s philosophy?

A Dalia Lama is a Buddhist Advocate for Peace and Freedom. His philosophy is simple to implement, yet none of us in the world today pays attention to it. His principle is to be happy and compassionate for others which will benefit both human and natural survival. He shares the message on various occasions for spreading peace and accepting non-violence as a core principle to make a better place to live for all.

What is the purpose of the Dalai Lama?

The Dalai Lama shares a message on multiple occasions as the purpose of life should be and only Happiness for oneself and for others.

Who is the most famous Dalai Lama?

The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso, who lives in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh(Northern State of India). His holiness is a successor in a line of tulkus from Buddhism ancestry.

Does the Dalai Lama believe in God?

The Dalai Lama is a Buddhist monk whose tradition is to accept change and believe in practicing morality, meditation, and wisdom.

Where is the Dalai Lama now?

His Holiness lives in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh(Northern State of India). 

Is the Dalai Lama vegan?

The Dalai Lama follows a balanced diet having both a vegetarian and non-vegetarian diet.

Why is the Dalai Lama an inspiration?

His Holiness is inspirational to millions around the globe. His message for compassion, non-violence, and being conscious about taking care of other Earth inspires millions. He spreads the message by doing conferences and meetings all around the world. 

What was the Dalai Lama famous for?

His Holiness has come to the limelight because he took the stand for Buddhist monks who were suffering violence from the Chinese Government invading Tibet in 1959. He started the protest with the principle of non-violence and freed Tibet from invasion.

How rich is the Dalai Lama?

As of 2021, the estimated worth is around $150 million.

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