The Dalai Lama on Nonviolent Opposition - Pico Iyer

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/20/The_Open_Road_with_Pico_Iyer

Dalai Lama biographer Pico Iyer discusses the exiled leader's philosophy of nonviolent opposition to the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

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Pico Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama (a friend of his father's) for the last three decades - an ongoing exploration of his message and its effectiveness.

Now, in his insightful, impassioned book, Iyer captures the paradoxes of the Dalai Lama's position: though he has brought the ideas of Tibet to world attention, Tibet itself is being remade as a Chinese province; though he was born in one of the remotest, least developed places on earth, he has become a champion of globalism and technology.

He is a religious leader who warns against being needlessly distracted by religion; a Tibetan head of state who suggests that exile from Tibet can be an opportunity; an incarnation of a Tibetan god who stresses his everyday humanity.

Moving from Dharamsala, India - the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile - to Lhasa, Tibet, to venues in the West, where the Dalai Lama's pragmatism, rigor, and scholarship are sometimes lost on an audience yearning for mystical visions, The Open Road illuminates the hidden life, the transforming ideas, and the daily challenges of a global icon - Grace Cathedral

Pico Iyer is a British-born essayist and novelist of Indian descent. He is most recently the author of The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

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[tibsushi]

thanks for vedio. thumbs up.



[dorje168]

These patriotic education campaigns now a standard feature of life in Tibetan monasteries and nunneries. They are one of many tools Chinese leaders use to tighten party control of a religion whose charismatic leader, the 72-year-old Dalai Lama, is revered in Tibet, respected around the world and viewed in Beijing as a threat to the partys supremacy.

[jrohagan]

What exactly constitutes a "spiritual leader" then?

[00PHEW]

"the milkandcoffee' is deluding himself/herself. 888reventon is right... China is an authoritative state but the Dalai Lama is a wannabe spiritual "leader"

[TheMilkandcoffe]

TO 888reventon

stop deluding yourself

[888reventon]

If the dalai lama is really all about non violence why hasn't he ever condemned the west for its war crimes in iraq, afghanistan, vietnam or any war for the matter, not even the middle east???

[Jerikuo]

China doesn't have a president, not the whole world uses one system, it's a communist government, it has a chairman system like Mao in the 1940's (I'm not trying to be biased or anything 'cause I'm Taiwanese so I try to stay away from mainland affairs)

[beancube2008]

Buddha is not Lama. Religious language deceived the world into believing their system picks those monks. They were actually the rulers of the lands who had ruled parts of China. Chinese shared what they own with them in a long history. Many people in China are different and they all learned how disastrous comings from conflict mismanagement. Chinese won't allow anyone take part of China to stir wars. Her first president had been betrayed by the running away GMT.

[mimmersk]

wasn't he an author of some dalai lama book?

[newties21]

If ForaTV wants to be more credible, try to invite speakers or experts who are able to give you different perspective, not always Dalai Lama perspective from his sympathizers.

Even this guy has said it himself, most overseas exile Tibetans have never been to Tibet or China. What does that really tell you? Guess for yourself.