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Gedhun Choekyi Nyima - Wikipedia  Status, Missing for 21 years, 5 months and 13 days. Title, 11th Panchen Lama according to the 14th Dalai Lama. Predecessor, Choekyi Gyaltsen. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (born 25 April 1989) is the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibetan Buddhism ... Armed with Beijing's approval, the head of the Panchen Lama search committee,...
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Buddhism - Wikipedia  Buddhism /budzm/ is a religion and dharma that encompasses a variety of traditions, ... Theravada has a widespread following in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. ... Rather than Nirvana, Mahayana instead aspires to Buddhahood via the bodhisattva ... Tibetan Buddhism, which preserves the Vajrayana teachings of eighth...
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Protests and uprisings in Tibet since 1950 - Wikipedia  Protests and uprisings in Tibet against the government of the People's Republic of China have occurred since 1950, and include the 1959 uprising, the 2008 uprising, and the subsequent self-immolation protests. Over the years the Tibetan government in exile, the Central Tibetan ... An influx of Chinese culture, the Indian alphabet, and Buddhist monks...
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Religions Flashcards | Quizlet  For more than 400 years, the chief monk of Tibetan Buddhism has gone by this title .... Meaning "sign of God", it's the title of a Shi'ite Muslim scholar & leader.
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June 29, 2008  ... 1928 A.A. Milne published "House at" this title character's "Corner" Pooh He lost ... For more than 400 years, the chief monk of Tibetan Buddhism has gone by...
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Tibetan Buddhism - ReligionFacts  Tibet remained independent until the early 1900s, when it was occupied first by ... The Dalai Lama, the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people, lives in exile ... defined list of sacred texts recognized by various sects of Tibetan Buddhism, .... of the dominant school of Tibetan Buddhism, the Gelugpa (or Yellow Hats).
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Panchen Lama | Tibetan Buddhism | Britannica.com  The title Panchen (a short form of the Sanskrit-Tibetan Pandita Chen-po, or Great Scholar) was that traditionally given to head abbots of the Tashilhunpo Monastery, ... In the 17th century the fifth Dalai Lama declared that his tutor, Blo-bzang ... of the Panchen Lama, head abbot of the Tashilhunpo monastery, believed to be...
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Mongolian Buddhism Glossary | Mongoluls.Net  Altan Khaan (1507-1582), Altan Khan: Mongolian emperor who adopted the Gelugpa ... Choilin: A Tibetan word meaning "land of books" and a common ending to the ... Title in Tibetan Buddhism, originating from the Mongolian word for ocean. The present Dalai Lama (14th) is the religious and worldly leader of the Tibetan...
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The Dalai Lamas | The Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama  He did his primary studies of reading and writing Tibetan script with Gya-Ton ... In 1447, Gedun Drupa founded the Tashi Lhunpo monastery in Shigatse, one of the ... The Second Dalai Lama, Gedun Gyatso was born in 1475 in Tanag Sekme, ... In 1517, Gedun Gyatso became the abbot of Drepung monastery and in the...
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Tibetan Buddhism - Wikipedia  Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, the regions surrounding the Himalayas and much of Central Asia. ... There the term used was "lamaism" (literally, "doctrine of the lamas": lama jiao) to .... To engage in it one must receive an appropriate initiation (also known as an...
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Birth to Exile | The Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama  His Holiness the Dalai Lama was born on 6 July 1935, and named Lhamo .... to the Potala Palace, where he was officially installed as the spiritual leader of Tibet. ... Two months later, in October, news reached Lhasa that an army of 80,000 ... and America, His Holiness, in his last bid to avoid a full-scale Chinese invasion,...
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The 14th Dalai Lama Celebrates His 77th Birthday - Biography.com  Jul 6, 2012 ... Though exiled during the Tibetan Uprising of 1959, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th ... Tibet's most devout leader for more than 60 years, and continues to be one ... Ages, the Dalai Lama has acted as both the spiritual and civil leader of Tibet. ... and he was enthroned as the 14th Dalai Lama on February 22, 1940.
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Dalai Lama - Wikipedia  The Dalai Lama /dla lm/ (US), /dla lm/ (UK) is a monk of the Gelug or .... Thus the Dalai Lamas became pre-eminent spiritual leaders in Tibet and 25 ... He made himself known as the tulku of Gendun Gyatso and was formally .... At 12 he was installed at Tashilhunpo as Gendun Drup's incarnation,...
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Newsletter: Tashi Lhunpo Monastery and the Panchen Lama  In this newsletter, you will learn about the history of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery and ... The current 11th Panchen Lama was taken into custody by the Chinese in 1995 ... 11th Panchen Lama, Khen Rinpoche Lobzang Tsetan was appointed abbot .... past (in what is now called the Autonomous Region of Tibet), only 70 remain,.
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Dalai Lama Sees a Culture Endangered - NYTimes.com  Mar 22, 1989 ... The Dalai Lama, who left Tibet after the suppression of the 1959 revolt, lives in exile in the Himalayan hill town of Dharamsala, in the Indian...
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Dalai Lama - Religious Figure, Activist - Biography.com  Sep 28, 2015 ... Explore the life of Lhamo Thondup, Tibet's Dalai Lamawho has aimed to establish ... Put together, the title of Dalai Lama is literally "Ocean Teacher," meaning a "teacher ... Buddhism encourages its followers not to believe in those teachings, ... the Chinese and Tibetans that would lead to a self-governing...
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Ask A Buddhist: Understanding Buddhist titles - SpokaneFVS  Sep 5, 2013 ... Fill out the form below or submit your question online. ... Korean masters, Tibetan geshes and lamas, Buddhist chaplains, Buddhist ministers ... Like the term Ajahn in Theravada Buddhism, the title of Roshi is given to senior...
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11th Panchen Lama controversy - Wikipedia  The 11th Panchen Lama controversy is a dispute about the current legitimate holder of the Panchen Lama title, a political and religious leadership position in Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism. After the death of the 10th Panchen Lama, a dispute between the Chinese leadership and the exiled 14th Dalai Lama ... On the other hand, the leaders of the Chinese government wanted the...
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Dalai Lama | Tibetan leader | Britannica.com  Head of the dominant Dge-lugs-pa (Yellow Hat) order of Tibetan Buddhists and, until ... that ruler the honorific title ta-le (Anglicized as dalai), the Mongolian equivalent of the ... of the Dge-lugs-pa sect over rival orders for the temporal rule of Tibet. ... In the first decade of the 21st century, the Dalai Lama suggested that his...
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Buddhism: Basic Beliefs - United Religions Initiative  If Buddhism began in India, why is it all over some many eastern countries? ... The sight of the monk told Siddhartha to leave his life as a prince and become a ... Siddartha spent many years doing many religious practices such as praying, ... and Four Noble Truths, which he then taught to the people for the next 45 years.
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Tibetan Buddhism from A to Z | My Reincarnation | POV | PBS  One of the four kinds of manifested-bodies of the Buddha. ... and the means of transforming oneself into the mind and actions of loving-kindness. ... This is the main basis of the tulku tradition of Tibetan Buddhists. ... The term buddha can be singular or plural. ... One of the superior ones; a senior teacher of Buddhism.