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U Thant Buddhism in Action - Dr. Walter Dorn  The election of U Thant as secretary-general on November 3, 1961, six weeks after the ... Like many Burmese youths, he spent some time in a Buddhist monastery, though formal ..... Do these principles apply to nations as well? ... "to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social,...
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Buddhism and Nonviolent Global Problem-Solving - Center for ...  This is an augmented report of the fourth International Seminar on Buddhism and. Leadership for ... The theme of the fourth seminar was "Buddhism and Global Problem-Solving," following .... on Buddhism and Leadership for Peace sought answers to this .... Except for general agreement on the five general principles cited.
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What Myanmar Means for the U.S.-Japan Alliance - Carnegie ...  Sep 9, 2014 ... If Myanmar had gone through this process in the 1960s or 1970s, the ... among other principles.7 This dynamic is juxtaposed with Myanmar serving as .... To address the debt issue, Japan's Ministry of Finance organized a series ..... these meetings take place at the assistant secretary/director general level...
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Flight from Indochina - UNHCR  became involved in efforts to pre-empt a refugee problem rather than simply ... the principle of asylum, were no longer prepared to envisage the resettlement of ... MYANMAR .... In 1977, about 15,000 Vietnamese sought asylum in Southeast Asian ..... under direct threat, the UN Secretary-General convened an international.
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BBC - Religions - Buddhism: Buddhism at a glance  Nov 17, 2009 ... Buddhists seek to reach a state of nirvana, following the path of the Buddha, ... Gautama, who went on a quest for Enlightenment around the sixth century BC. There is ... Our mistaken belief that things can last is a chief cause of suffering. The history of Buddhism is the story of one man's spiritual journey to...
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U Thant | Myanmar educator and secretary-general of the United ...  In 195253 he was a Myanmar (Burmese) delegate to the UN, becoming his country's permanent UN representative in 1957. ... In 1989 the country's official English name, which it had held since 1885, was changed from the Union of Burma.
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January 2007  Fifty Viss  Jan 28, 2007 ... In 2006, the Burmese government launched an anti-corruption drive to weed out civil ... Yangon's international airport offers third-world services and ... we headed toward the customs table, hoping not to leak out any Burmese words. .... U Myint Thein, spokesman of the National League for Democracy, said.
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Tibetan Buddhism - Wikipedia  Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, the ... Among its prominent exponents is the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. ... The Mahyna goal of spiritual development is to achieve the enlightenment of ..... Fully ordained Tibetan Buddhist Monks now work in academia (see Ven.
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U Thant - Wikipedia  Thant known honorifically as U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first ... He was a close friend of Burma's first Prime Minister U Nu and served various positions in ... Later, in December 1962, Thant ordered the Operation Grand Slam which ended...
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Buddhism in Mongolia - Wikipedia  Buddhism in Mongolia derives much of its recent characteristics from Tibetan Buddhism of the ... In 1578 Altan Khan, a Mongol military leader with ambitions to unite the ... Altan Khan of Mongolia gave the Tibetan leader the title of Dalai Lama ... In Tibet Buddhism thus became an amalgam, combining colorful popular...
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U Thant - Wikipedia  Thant known honorifically as U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first ... In his first term, Thant facilitated negotiations between U.S. President John F. Kennedy and ... At university, Thant, together with Nu, the future Prime Minister of Burma, studied...
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Dalai Lama - Wikipedia  The Dalai Lama /dla lm/ (US), /dla lm/ (UK) is a monk of the Gelug or .... In Central Asian Buddhist countries, it has been widely believed for the last millennium that Avalokitevara, the ... Thus the Dalai Lamas became pre-eminent spiritual leaders in Tibet and 25 Himalayan and Central Asian...
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Birth to Exile | The Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama  It had been led there by a number of signs. ... Looking into the waters of the sacred lake, Lhamoi Lhatso, in southern Tibet, he clearly ... to the Potala Palace, where he was officially installed as the spiritual leader of Tibet. .... Soon after his arrival in Mussoorie on 20 April 1959, His Holiness met with the Indian Prime Minister...
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The Challenge to International Human Rights  Mar 26, 2003 ... This typology helps us to see that challenges to international human ... Today, with so-called democratic consolidation in the region and the .... years, at times carried out together with their Western counterparts. .... Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and other, smaller civil liberties organizations.
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The 14th Dalai Lama - Facts - Nobelprize.org  The Nobel Peace Prize 1989 ... From his exile in India, the religious and political leader the Dalai Lama has since 1959 stood at the head of ... The award of the Peace Prize gave the Dalai Lama the opportunity to present a plan for the ... In the plan he recommended that the country be turned into an ecologically stable and...
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1973 - Presentation Speech - Nobelprize.org  Nevertheless, the negotiations for a ceasefire and peace in Vietnam, initiated in ... and the North Vietnam negotiator Le Duc Tho arrived at a ceasefire agreement, ... for turning the ceasefire in Vietnam into a lasting peace for the suffering peoples .... Today a handful of great statesmen are sitting down at the conference table,...
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U Thant facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  U Thant (1909-1974) was a Burmese and the first non-European secretary general of the ... U Nuwho was one day to become independent Burma's first premier after the ... of Nu's later political decline with the assignment of Thant in 1957 as Burma's ... 3, 1961, Thant was named acting UN secretary general following Dag...
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U Thant - Wikipedia  Thant known honorifically as U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first ... Thant had a calm and unassuming demeanor which won his colleagues' respect .... of the United Nations informed Thant that he would be awarded the 1965 Nobel Peace prize...
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Dalai Lama - Wikipedia  The Dalai Lama /dla lm/ (US), /dla lm/ (UK) is a monk of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism founded by Je Tsongkhapa. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso. .... Thus the Dalai Lamas became pre-eminent spiritual leaders in Tibet and 25...
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U Thant - Wikipedia  Thant known honorifically as U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General .... From 1957 to 1961, he was Burma's permanent representative to the United Nations and became actively involved in negotiations over Algerian ... In 1961, Thant was named Chairman of the UN Congo Commission.