About Dalai Lama

< The Dalai Lama (1935~) >

 

The Dalai Lama is a Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader. He was born the son of a poor farmer in Takcher, in the northeastern part of Tibet, close to China. In less than 3 years old, he took the tests of various kinds, according to the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. As a result. he was recognized as the 13th Dalai Lama reincarnated. After that, he entered Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, and received the education for leadership.

In the meantime, unfortunately, China invaded Tibet in 1950. At that time, the Dalai Lama, even at the age of 16, asked the United Nations for help, informing of Chinese invasion. In 1954, he visited to negotiate with China only to fail. As China occupied Tibet and began to persecute Tibetan people, he went over to India, where he set up a provisional government and led the independence movement. Even for more than 40 years, he has led the independence movement tirelessly in a peaceful way, which touched the people all over the world. In 1989, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his hard work for the world peace as well as the Tibetan independence.

Being deprived of homeland can probably leave you feeling tremendously sad and distressed. A lot of countries in the world kill people one another to deprive others of their countries. Burning with revenge, people who lost their homelands try to make bombs to kill the people of aggressor nations, which causes chain-reaction revenge continue. However, on the contrary, the Dalai Lama touched the people all over the world by leading the independence movement in a peaceful way, instead of using the way of killing someone.