16. See the facsimile published in the back of this book.
17. In 1962 detachments of the People’s Liberation Army invaded the Sino-Tibetan border regions and were quickly expelled.
18. Speech given in Dharamsala, March 10, 1965.
19. See the exhaustive study on the subject by Claude B. Levenson, Tibet: l’envers du décor (Geneva: Éditions Olizane, 1993).
20. Speech given in Dharamsala, March 10, 1967.
21. Speech given in Dharamsala, March 10, 1968.
22. Tenzin Tsendu, Passage de la frontière, dictated to Sofia Stril-Rever for translation and publication in French.
23. Speech given to the Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress, September 21, 1987.
24. Ibid.
25. Speech to the European Parliament, Strasbourg, June 15, 1988.
26. Samdhong Rinpoche, Uncompromising Truth for a Compromised World, 143.
27. Speech given in Dharamsala, March 10, 1990.
28. Speech given in Dharamsala, March 10, 2008.
29. Speech given at the European Parliament, Brussels, December 4, 2008.
30. Interview with the Dalai Lama, Der Spiegel (May 2008).
31. Interview with the Dalai Lama, Nouvel Observateur, December 30, 2008.
32. Speech given in Hamilton, New York, April 24, 2008.
33. The Dalai Lama, My Land and My People, 233-34.
34. From Shantideva’s The Way of the Bodhisattva.
35. At a teaching given in Lisbon in September 2007, organized by the Chanteloube Center for Buddhist Studies.
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INDEX
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affection, 8–10
ahimsa (nonviolent peace) zone, 224–225
altruism, 28, 29, 35–36, 102, 105–107
analysis, 88–89, 93–94, 96, 101, 121–122
anger, 21–22, 28, 129, 250
Avalokiteshvara, 7, 146, 169, 209
awareness, 77, 96–98, 101–102
“Be a Source of Hope,” 259–260
Bodhi Tree, 84, 151
Border Passage (Tenzin Tsendu), 215–217
Buddha, 35, 80, 81, 84, 91, 97, 101, 127, 147–149, 151, 190, 252
Buddhism: bodhisattva, 65, 79; equality and freedom, 62, 190–191; imperma- nence, 56–57, 90–92; interdependence and compassion, 11, 158; medita- tion, 35–36, 77–78; nonviolence, 135, 219; other religious traditions and, 80–81; reincarnation, 55, 62–63, 65–67, 135–136; and science, 120–124, 127–131. See also Tibetan Buddhism; transforming the mind
Bush, George W., 192
causality, 93, 121, 152
cerebral plasticity, 122, 123
cheerfulness, 23–24
childhood development, 8–10
China, 153, 168–171, 195, 208, 220, 227–228, 233–234, 242–243, 252–254, 275–276
Chinese invasion and occupation of Tibet: attack on religion, 177, 209–211, 213, 232, 237, 249, 253; brutal repression, 202, 206–207, 228, 235– 239, 248–250, 275; denouncing the Dalai Lama, 7, 181, 232, 236–237, 241, 243–244, 249; environmental degra- dation, 139–144, 277; genocide, 202, 264–265; Han population transfers, 208, 228–230, 238, 240, 247, 250; and India, 183–184, 207, 219, 224; initial events, 51, 165–167, 172–175, 177–179, 181–182; Lhasa insurrection, 178–179, 204, 206, 275; nuclear threat, 207, 208; ongoing flight from, 212–217; period of liberalization, 221–223; post-insur- rection events in Lhasa, 197–198, 211, 232, 248–250, 252; regulatory control of lineages, 67–69; Seventeen-Point Agreement, 173, 174, 177, 183, 197; sinicization, 33, 196, 209, 211, 240– 241; torture techniques, 237–238
compassion: bodhisattva ideal, 79; to heal humanity, 13, 15, 106, 112, 114, 117, 123; as path of happiness, 26–27, 88, 89, 122; practice of, 11, 18–22, 25, 28, 102; vital need for, 8–10, 14
Congressional Gold Medal, 192–193
consciousness, 93–95, 135
Dalai Lama: appointed temporal leader, 165–166; as Buddhist monk, 1–2, 7, 25, 35–36, 55–56, 75–79; childhood in Lhasa, 11, 46–56, 139; choice of nonviolence, 194–198, 228; Congres- sional Gold Medal, 192–193; daily life, 35–36, 77; family farm life, 37–41; Five-Point Peace Plan, 225, 227–232, 234–235, 238; flight to India, 178–184; founding Tibetan democ- racy, 187–189, 235; influence on UN declarations, 158–159; Kalachakra initiation by, 153; lineage, xiii, 42–45, 48, 55; meeting with Mao, 176–177; message to exiled Tibetans, 185–187; Middle Way policy, 226, 240, 244, 246, 250–251, 276; negotiations with China, 221–223, 226, 232–235, 240, 243–248, 250–251, 278; Nobel Peace Prize, 16–17, 69, 195, 236, 261, 280; photos of, 3, 71, 161; pilgrim- ages, 84–85; poems by, 15, 145–150, 259–261; search party discovering, 42–45; Seventeen-Point Agreement response, 174–175; Strasbourg Pro- posal, 232, 234, 235, 246; succession of, 58–59, 62–65,
