In Conversation: HIs Holiness the Dalai Lama (3 of 6)

In conversation with Pico Iyer and Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Institute July 25, 2008, His Holiness the Dalai Lama discusses the next Dalai Lama and the prospects of different systems for selecting that leader.

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[turbobuster00]

That is the thesis of Prof.Goldstein, which the Chinese government has embraced. But it was not the collapse of the Lamaist State..anymore than Nazi presecution of Jews was collapse of Jewish religion...it was the Occupation of Tibet..

[dorje168]

The Chinese government views propaganda as a key weapon in its efforts to undermine the movement for Tibetan rights and statehood. Chinese state run media - whose use of manufactured and manipulated history is indisputable - regularly debases and assails Tibetan culture and specifically the Dalai Lama, who is dismissed with regularity - and relish. The Tibetan refugee population is treated with equal disdain,

[wikihog]

I'm a huge fan of Pico Iyer, his thoughts, and writings. That's how I came to watch this video. But I have to say, despite the fact that Iyer seems entirely in awe and maybe even draws inspiration from Dalai Lama, I find some of his concepts really hollow. Compassionate for everything? Unrealistic.

Or amybe he just can't put it in the right words, what with the language barrier.

[OptionM45]

This fucking liar dodged the question, a question he could not and dare not to answer.

[jomellon]

The 13th Dalai Lama attempted to introduce modern education for a very small number of aristocratic boys in c. 1924. The attempt collapsed in the face of opposition from the '3 Seats' - the 3 large Gelug monasteries near Lhasa. A second attempt in 1934 (after his death) collapsed for much the same reason.

It was Tibetan Buddhism's inability at self criticism, and to reform itself which was a major cause for the collapse of the Lamaist state...