Tibetan Spiritual Leader: The Dalai Lama

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Who is the Dalai Lama? What is his job? This is what we're going to talk about.
Dalai Lama is a Buddhist monk in Tibet, who is the head monk of Tibetan Buddhism, he is not just a spiritual leader also a political leader and he has his own uniform as wearing " Marron ". Traditionally, he has been the responsible of the governing of Tibet until 1959 when the Chinese took control the countries. The Dalai Lama has the highest position of religion at that time. The Dalai Lama is a respected person. He owns the Nobel prize in peace because he called for peace all the times also he is a psychological activist. He is a lighted person , as he does not hated anyone, absolutely, he loves everyone; he doesn't be angry or ignorance
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Dalai Lama is an enemy for Chinese people because of several reasons, conclude; his fake given of wisdom as he says things and he does not do them by himself. In addition, the Dalai Lama has taken a numerous actions to establish an autonomous Tibetan state within the Chinese people as he issued a draft to democratize the government and provided detailed guidelines for Tibetan. Chinese hate Dalai Lama and to some extent Indians due to the Tibet's rebellion when Dalai lama went to India. Since the US supported Tibet autonomy, Dalai Lama has grown to be respected as a leader in the world also has partly undermined china as a complete absorption of Tibet. When Dalai Lama is seen as a figure of kind of authority around the world and as a God King in Tibet, China considers him a separatist. When the Chinese assumed control of Tibet, they also decreed that their own government would have the power and approve the naming of the Dalai …show more content…
For example, the great fifth Dalai Lama has a reputation to be as a highly successful politician who could unify the country. The seventh Dalai Lama was uninterested in politics, also the eighth. And there are others Dalai Lamas. But we have a special Dalai Lama who is the sixth Dalai Lama, he isn't remembered as a political strategy but he is remembered for his love poems. He owns a collection of sixty-six verses which are attributed to him. For

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