After spending his childhood and youth in Nepal receiving a traditional education for a Gelugpa tulku, Lama Osel subsequently chose to attend a western secondary boarding school in Canada and is currently attending university in Spain.

In 1986, a Spanish boy named Osel Hita Torres ( a. k. a. Tenzin Ösel Rinpoche, or " Lama Ösel ") was identified as the tulku of Lama Yeshe.

* Photo of Lama Osel

For example, the 14th Dalai Lama, long insistent on Tibet's history being separate from that of China's, conceded in 2005 that Tibet " is a part " of China's " 5000-year history " as part of a new proposal for Tibetan autonomy.

The name or title Dalai Lama in Mongolian may also have derived originally from the title taken by Temüjin or Genghis Khan when he was proclaimed emperor of a united Mongolia during 1206.

They brought Kelzang Gyatso with them from Kumbum to Lhasa and he was installed as the seventh Dalai Lama in 1721.

Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama, assumed ruling power from the monasteries, which previously had great influence on the Regent, during 1895.

Due to his two periods of exile in 1904 – 1909, to escape the British invasion of 1904, and from 1910 – 1912 to escape a Chinese invasion, he became well aware of the complexities of international politics and was the first Dalai Lama to become aware of the importance of foreign relations.

The genera Lama and Vicugna are, with the two species of true camels, the sole existing representatives of a very distinct section of the Artiodactyla or even-toed ungulates, called Tylopoda, or " bump-footed ", from the peculiar bumps on the soles of their feet.

* the guanaco ( from the Quechua huanaco ), Lama guanicoe ( Müller ); and

The Dalai Lama was taken by surprise and to protect his sovereignty, he initiated a parallel approach whereby he asked military help from Sovan Shahi, the King of Jumla in West Nepal, and requested him to launch guerrilla activities and revolt against the Nepalese Army in and around Jumla.

The Dalai Lama also asked for military help from the Chinese Emperor.

* Sonam Gyrso receives from prince Atlan Khan the title of Talaï, and becomes the third Dalai Lama of Tibet.

The theocratic government was founded by an expatriate Drukpa monk, Ngawang Namgyal, who arrived in Bhutan in 1616 seeking freedom from the domination of the Gelugpa subsect led by the Dalai Lama ( Ocean Lama ) in Lhasa.

The Druk Desi petitioned Lhasa for assistance from the Panchen Lama, who was serving as regent for the youthful Dalai Lama.

In 1959 Hundertwasser got involved with helping the Dalai Lama escape from Tibet by campaigning for the Tibetan religious leader in Carl Laszlo's magazine " Panderma ".

A skeleton from Lama dei Peligni in the province of Chieti has been radiometrically dated to 6, 540 bp.

UNPO was conceived of in the 1980s by two separatists from China and a supporter of " Tibetan independence ": Tibetan secessionist Tsering Jampa, Uyghur separatists Erkin Alptekin and Michael van Walt van Praag, long a lawyer for the 14th Dalai Lama.

The names of the towns Volokolamsk and Vyshny Volochek may be translated as " the portage on the Lama River " and " the upper portage ", respectively ( the word " volok " means " portage " in Russian, derived from the verb " to drag ").

Schachter-Shalomi was among the group of rabbis, from a wide range of Jewish denominations, who traveled together to India to meet with the Dalai Lama and discuss diaspora survival with him.

Containing such songs as the proto-punk classics " Kick Out the Jams " and " Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa ", the spaced-out " Starship " ( co-credited to Sun Ra because the lyrics were partly cribbed from one of Ra's poems ), and an extended cover of John Lee Hooker's " Motor City is Burning " wherein Tyner praises the role of Black Panther snipers during the Detroit Insurrection of 1967.

At Zhengzhou, he took a train to Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, and then trekked to the sacred Buddhist mountain of Wutai Shan, where he met the Dalai Lama, who was launching a nascent campaign to free Tibet from Chinese Imperial rule.

Subsequently, under diplomatic and financial pressure from Beijing, he induced the Dalai Lama, a fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, to postpone indefinitely a proposed and much anticipated visit during Beijing's suppression of controversial riots in Tibet.

The 14th Dalai Lama, who generally speaks from the Gelugpa version of the Mādhyamaka-Prasaṅgika, states:

At the beginning of the Flamingo edition of the book a message from the Dalai Lama praises the work: " Harrer has always been such a friend to Tibet.

As the 14th Dalai Lama noted during the 1985 Kalachakra initiation in Bodhgaya, Shambhala is not an ordinary country:

Other high Kagyu lamas who support Ogyen Trinley Dorje include the Ninth Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche ; the Ninth Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche ; the Seventh Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and his Nalandabodhi organization ; the Twelfth Surmang Trungpa Rinpoche ; the Seventh Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche ; the Third Tenga Rinpoche ; the Third Bardor Tulku Rinpoche ; the Venerable Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche ; the Venerable Bokar Rinpoche ; the Venerable Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche ( abbot of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra ); Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and his organization, Shambhala International ; the Venerable Drupon Rinpoche, and Lama Norlha Rinpoche, among others.

* Stars of Wisdom: Analytical Meditation, Songs of Yogic Joy, and Prayers of Aspiration by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso, translated by Ari Goldfield and Rose Taylor, Forewords by the Seventeenth Karmapa and the Dalai Lama, Shambhala Publications ( 2010 ), ISBN 1-59030-775-5

" Many would agree with the Dalai Lama that Buddhism as a religion is kindness toward others.

The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or " Yellow Hat " branch of Tibetan Buddhism.

A book edited by Allan Hunt Badiner called Dharma Gaia explores the ground where Buddhism and ecology meet through writings by the Dalai Lama, Gary Snyder, Thich Nhat Hanh, Allen Ginsberg, Joanna Macy, Robert Aitken, and 25 other Buddhists and ecologists.

The Mongol nobility during the Yuan dynasty studied Confucianism, built Confucian temples ( including Beijing Confucius Temple ) and translated Confucian works into Mongolian but mainly followed the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism under Phags-pa Lama.

The Dalai Lama answered ; " if science can disprove reincarnation, Tibetan Buddhism would abandon reincarnation ... but it's going to be mighty hard to disprove reincarnation.

Later Turnbull moved to Dharamsala, India where he took the monks ' vow of Tibetan Buddhism, given to him by the Dalai Lama.

During the 20th and 21st centuries Buddhism has again been propagated by missionaries into the West such as the Dalai Lama and monks including Lama Surya Das ( Tibetan Buddhism ).

The immense popularity and goodwill ushered in by Tibet's Dalai Lama ( who has been made honorary Canadian citizen ) put Buddhism in a favourable light.

During the 11th century and early 12th century a second important transmission occurred with the lineages of Atisa, Marpa and Brogmi, giving rise to the other schools of Tibetan Buddhism, namely Kadam, Kagyu, Sakya, and Geluk ( the school of the Dalai Lama ).

In the book The World of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama describes mandalas thus: " This is the celestial mansion, the pure residence of the deity.

' the Dalai Lama answered: " Buddhism in general teaches that anger is a destructive emotion and although anger might have some positive effects in terms of survival or moral outrage, I do not accept that anger of any kind as a virtuous emotion nor aggression as constructive behavior.

In 1987, Varela, along with R. Adam Engle, founded the Mind and Life Institute, initially to sponsor a series of dialogues between scientists and His Holiness The Dalai Lama about the relationship between modern science and Buddhism.

The way in which Tenar becomes the Priestess of the Tomb-on the death of the previous Priestess, a child is located who is considered to be her reincarnation-is similar to the actual manner in which a Dalai Lama is chosen in Tibetan Buddhism.

Altan Khan invited the 3rd Dalai Lama to Mongolia again in 1571 and embraced Tibetan Buddhism.

Altan Khan was succeeded by his son Sengge Düüreng who continued to diligently support Buddhism, and two years later the 3rd Dalai Lama made another visit to Mongolia.

He travelled to India, studied Buddhism, became friends with the Dalai Lama and established the Tibetan Refugee Aid Society.

He then met the 14th Dalai Lama in India and became a practicing Buddhist of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism and an active supporter of the Dalai Lama.

She also met the 13th Dalai Lama twice in 1912, and had the opportunity to ask him many questions about Buddhism — a feat unprecedented for a European woman at that time.

Tibetan Buddhism use the tulku system, an ancient way of finding the reincarnation of a previous deceased lama: they are usually young boys, sometimes of wealthy and influential families and sometimes of peasant families like the current 14th Dalai Lama, that are found and enthroned as the reincarnation of an enlightened person that has already deceased.

In 1615, Zaya journeyed to Lhasa, Tibet where he would study and practice Buddhism, including study under the guidance of the 4th Panchen Lama.