if you only know one thing about
Buddhism we bet that it’s something to
do with today’s topic this smiling
Tibetan monk better known as the Dalai
Lama so a gentleman approached AK then
who do you think they gimme the Dali
Lama I’m so welcome to watchmojo.com
down five facts on the life works and
quirks of the Dalai Lama the flowing
robes a grace called striking we’re
gonna try to get through this without
any puns about the South American
herbivore fingers crossed
not just any Buddhist His Holiness the
Dalai Lama his good friend number five
he was an unusual child which might have
landed him the job I’m gonna go ahead
and say it the Dalai Lama was a weird
kid as a young boy his holiness
remembers hanging out the family’s
chicken coop and making clucking noises
alongside the hens as well as running up
to his father and tugging on his
mustache the young boy also liked
packing a bag and saying I’m going to
Lhasa which is the capital Tibet after
the 13th Dalai Lama died Buddhist monks
searched across Tibet looking for the
next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama as
per their tradition
the monks found the odd little boy and
tested him by bringing out some of the
belongings of the old Dalai Lama and
placing them beside objects that weren’t
his and every time the young boy grabbed
the Lamas things showed in mine that’s
mine
the verdict the monks had found their
reincarnated leader
number four he loves science yes science
maybe not what you’d expect from a
religious leader given the interesting
historical relationship of religion and
science as a boy the Dalai Lama was
fascinated by machines taking apart and
put him back together windup toys clocks
film projectors and anything else he
could find in one interview he described
looking through a telescope at a young
age and seeing that the moon was a
cratered rock orbiting the earth and not
a heavenly light emitting orb like his
religious tutors told him when
astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan
asked the Dalai Lama what would happen
if science disproved a core Buddhist
belief like reincarnation the Lama
replied basically that if science could
disprove reincarnation Tibetan Buddhism
would abandon reincarnation as a
doctrine he also told Sagan that some
Buddhists see Buddhism blesses a
religion and more as a science of the
mind number three he is a self-described
Marxist the Dalai Lama has publicly
described himself as half Buddhist half
Marxist Marxism is of course the
socialist ideology behind communism
that’s right comrade the Dalai Lama has
publicly criticized capitalism as an
inhuman profit obsessed ideology devoid
of love and compassion Buddhist don’t
give a about money the wrapped in
sheets then I’m buying I’m not
talking about Buddhist or Amish I’m
talking about normal people working
class everyday people everyone wants to
get rich my crazy on the contrary the
Dalai Lama feels his values are closer
to Marxism which is concerned with
fulfilling the needs of ordinary people
as a young man his holiness even wanted
to join the Communist Party himself
there’s an interesting irony that he
albeit jokingly has called himself more
left-wing than the Communist Chinese
government that exiled him from his
homeland decades ago even still the
Dalai Lama rejects all violence as a
political tool and he has criticized the
impersonal and often brutal
dictatorships in China Vietnam and the
Soviet Union number two he is
universally beloved outside of China the
opening prayer will be offered by his
Holiness the Dalai Lama the Dalai Lama
has pulled as the most popular world
leader on earth but his popularity is
more complicated in China which controls
the Dalai Lama’s homeland of Tibet since
the Dalai Lama’s have traditionally been
the leaders up to that the Chinese
government see
him as a rival and have punished anyone
they see as friendly to the Dalai Lama
Western artists who are sympathetic to
the Dalai Lama have had their work
banned in China Martin Scorsese York and
most recently Lady gaga have all faced
the wrath of Beijing the Dalai Lama may
only think of himself as a monk but for
most everyone else he is a powerful and
world-famous political symbol and until
he can return to Tibet he is also the
world’s most famous refugee number one
the Dalai Lama might be on his last
incarnation Buddhists believe in the
principle of samsara the cycle of death
and reincarnation and the current Dalai
Lama is the 14th earthly incarnation of
the original Dalai Lama
ever since the 1990s there has been talk
about his next reincarnation then just
circumstances is such that then is it no
longer relevant this institution the
Chinese government have declared that
they are in charge of finding his
successor and their involvement would
probably mean that it would be someone
who grows up to be more cooperative with
Chinese rule in Tibet but recently his
holiness has gone a step further and
said he might choose not to reincarnate
at all which would make it impossible
for the government of China to claim a
successor the Dalai institution will
cease one day this man-made sort of
institution sees no guarantee besides
maybe the Dalai Lama just wants to
finish on a high note he figures that
we’ve gone five centuries with the Dalai
Lama so we may as well finish off with a
popular one of century-old tradition
seized at the time Oh quite popular so
what do you think of the Dalai Lama do
you think you’ll ever see Tibet again
for more perpetually reincarnated top
tens and politically exiled top fives be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com I’m
on a first tee what am I giving the
driver he hauls off and whacks one big
hair
you
Buddhism we bet that it’s something to
do with today’s topic this smiling
Tibetan monk better known as the Dalai
Lama so a gentleman approached AK then
who do you think they gimme the Dali
Lama I’m so welcome to watchmojo.com
down five facts on the life works and
quirks of the Dalai Lama the flowing
robes a grace called striking we’re
gonna try to get through this without
any puns about the South American
herbivore fingers crossed
not just any Buddhist His Holiness the
Dalai Lama his good friend number five
he was an unusual child which might have
landed him the job I’m gonna go ahead
and say it the Dalai Lama was a weird
kid as a young boy his holiness
remembers hanging out the family’s
chicken coop and making clucking noises
alongside the hens as well as running up
to his father and tugging on his
mustache the young boy also liked
packing a bag and saying I’m going to
Lhasa which is the capital Tibet after
the 13th Dalai Lama died Buddhist monks
searched across Tibet looking for the
next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama as
per their tradition
the monks found the odd little boy and
tested him by bringing out some of the
belongings of the old Dalai Lama and
placing them beside objects that weren’t
his and every time the young boy grabbed
the Lamas things showed in mine that’s
mine
the verdict the monks had found their
reincarnated leader
number four he loves science yes science
maybe not what you’d expect from a
religious leader given the interesting
historical relationship of religion and
science as a boy the Dalai Lama was
fascinated by machines taking apart and
put him back together windup toys clocks
film projectors and anything else he
could find in one interview he described
looking through a telescope at a young
age and seeing that the moon was a
cratered rock orbiting the earth and not
a heavenly light emitting orb like his
religious tutors told him when
astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan
asked the Dalai Lama what would happen
if science disproved a core Buddhist
belief like reincarnation the Lama
replied basically that if science could
disprove reincarnation Tibetan Buddhism
would abandon reincarnation as a
doctrine he also told Sagan that some
Buddhists see Buddhism blesses a
religion and more as a science of the
mind number three he is a self-described
Marxist the Dalai Lama has publicly
described himself as half Buddhist half
Marxist Marxism is of course the
socialist ideology behind communism
that’s right comrade the Dalai Lama has
publicly criticized capitalism as an
inhuman profit obsessed ideology devoid
of love and compassion Buddhist don’t
give a about money the wrapped in
sheets then I’m buying I’m not
talking about Buddhist or Amish I’m
talking about normal people working
class everyday people everyone wants to
get rich my crazy on the contrary the
Dalai Lama feels his values are closer
to Marxism which is concerned with
fulfilling the needs of ordinary people
as a young man his holiness even wanted
to join the Communist Party himself
there’s an interesting irony that he
albeit jokingly has called himself more
left-wing than the Communist Chinese
government that exiled him from his
homeland decades ago even still the
Dalai Lama rejects all violence as a
political tool and he has criticized the
impersonal and often brutal
dictatorships in China Vietnam and the
Soviet Union number two he is
universally beloved outside of China the
opening prayer will be offered by his
Holiness the Dalai Lama the Dalai Lama
has pulled as the most popular world
leader on earth but his popularity is
more complicated in China which controls
the Dalai Lama’s homeland of Tibet since
the Dalai Lama’s have traditionally been
the leaders up to that the Chinese
government see
him as a rival and have punished anyone
they see as friendly to the Dalai Lama
Western artists who are sympathetic to
the Dalai Lama have had their work
banned in China Martin Scorsese York and
most recently Lady gaga have all faced
the wrath of Beijing the Dalai Lama may
only think of himself as a monk but for
most everyone else he is a powerful and
world-famous political symbol and until
he can return to Tibet he is also the
world’s most famous refugee number one
the Dalai Lama might be on his last
incarnation Buddhists believe in the
principle of samsara the cycle of death
and reincarnation and the current Dalai
Lama is the 14th earthly incarnation of
the original Dalai Lama
ever since the 1990s there has been talk
about his next reincarnation then just
circumstances is such that then is it no
longer relevant this institution the
Chinese government have declared that
they are in charge of finding his
successor and their involvement would
probably mean that it would be someone
who grows up to be more cooperative with
Chinese rule in Tibet but recently his
holiness has gone a step further and
said he might choose not to reincarnate
at all which would make it impossible
for the government of China to claim a
successor the Dalai institution will
cease one day this man-made sort of
institution sees no guarantee besides
maybe the Dalai Lama just wants to
finish on a high note he figures that
we’ve gone five centuries with the Dalai
Lama so we may as well finish off with a
popular one of century-old tradition
seized at the time Oh quite popular so
what do you think of the Dalai Lama do
you think you’ll ever see Tibet again
for more perpetually reincarnated top
tens and politically exiled top fives be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com I’m
on a first tee what am I giving the
driver he hauls off and whacks one big
hair
you
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