How to achieve spiritual insight through focused meditation, the practice of stillness and a compassionate attitude towards life
The Dalai Lama is one of the greatest spiritual authorities of our time. He has been in exile for many years, and perhaps that is why he is well placed to convey the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism to people in the West. It brings the ideas of Buddhism into the context of our spiritual tradition and way of thinking and reveals their universal validity independent of time and place. An important key to spiritual enlightenment and liberation is self-knowledge, as European thinkers have also emphasized since antiquity. HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA XIV.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV. Tenzin Gyatso is considered the spiritual leader of the Tibetans. At the age of two, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the last, thirteenth Dalai Lama. At the same time, he is considered an emanation of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. In 1950, he was inaugurated and then, at the age of sixteen, had to temporarily assume full temporal and spiritual responsibility for dealing with the problems that arose in Tibet as the Chinese occupation progressed. In 1959, His Holiness
Dalai Lama left Tibet and took refuge in exile in India, where he also established a Tibetan government-in-exile. The Dalai Lama has repeatedly appealed to the United Nations to address the situation of human rights abuses by the Chinese government in Tibet and has met with many prominent political, public and religious leaders as part of his peace and lecture activities. In 1989 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
