The Dalai Lama is a Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader who wrote the book Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How The World’s Religions Can Come Together. In his book, the Dalai Lama shared his views on the world’s religions and the explained the differences and similarities between his own religious belief and traditions with the rest of the other people’s religion by saying that all religions can co-exist peacefully without any conflicts.The Dalai Lama quoted in his book “...how does a follower of a particular religious tradition deal with the question of the legitimacy of other religions?” The Dalai Lama asks us an important question about how we, the people on this Earth, can know for certain that our own religion is more truthfulness and
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The Dalai Lama compared Buddhist tradition to Christianity for loving and compassion. The Dalai Lama was fascinated on the aspects of the religion of Christianity on the very basis of love and compassion that he stated on his book, “Beside this great symbol of compassion, Christianity offers an incredibly intimate and moving symbol of love, in the image of Mary holding Jesus. This links up with the deep meaning of motherhood as the ground for compassion, and it evokes the universal human need for love and affection...loving-kindness and compassion with unconditional affection of a mother for her children and then extends that affection until it encompasses all beings” (Dalai Lama 48). The Dalai Lama also stated of how powerful and meaningful for Jesus of Nazareth to die on the cross and commanded his Father in the sky to forgive those that had sinned because the sinners did not know what they were doing. Jesus Christ died for the sake of humanity for opening salvation and forgiveness to God and for those people that are coming to the afterlife. The Dalai Lama meet with Pope John Paul and a Christian monk from the United States of America to understand and learn more from the religion of Christianity from the teachings of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. What was remarkable to the Dalai Lama was the Gospel in the Holy Bible that quoted of Jesus “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 338-44). The Dalai Lama was reminded of his past of his close colleague of his of having hatred towards the Chinese communists for depriving his country, freedom, and traditional spiritual practice in the lands of Tibet. The Dalai Lama said that the practicing of loving kindness toward one’s enemy is the ultimate test of one’s own spiritual attainment (Kessler 121). The Dalai Lama was very pluralist, which is someone who views that any religion have their own unique values of
The Dalai Lama compared Buddhist tradition to Christianity for loving and compassion. The Dalai Lama was fascinated on the aspects of the religion of Christianity on the very basis of love and compassion that he stated on his book, “Beside this great symbol of compassion, Christianity offers an incredibly intimate and moving symbol of love, in the image of Mary holding Jesus. This links up with the deep meaning of motherhood as the ground for compassion, and it evokes the universal human need for love and affection...loving-kindness and compassion with unconditional affection of a mother for her children and then extends that affection until it encompasses all beings” (Dalai Lama 48). The Dalai Lama also stated of how powerful and meaningful for Jesus of Nazareth to die on the cross and commanded his Father in the sky to forgive those that had sinned because the sinners did not know what they were doing. Jesus Christ died for the sake of humanity for opening salvation and forgiveness to God and for those people that are coming to the afterlife. The Dalai Lama meet with Pope John Paul and a Christian monk from the United States of America to understand and learn more from the religion of Christianity from the teachings of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. What was remarkable to the Dalai Lama was the Gospel in the Holy Bible that quoted of Jesus “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 338-44). The Dalai Lama was reminded of his past of his close colleague of his of having hatred towards the Chinese communists for depriving his country, freedom, and traditional spiritual practice in the lands of Tibet. The Dalai Lama said that the practicing of loving kindness toward one’s enemy is the ultimate test of one’s own spiritual attainment (Kessler 121). The Dalai Lama was very pluralist, which is someone who views that any religion have their own unique values of