Posted in seeker, tagged buddhism, dalai lama, Tibet, vegetarianism on March 15, 2008 | 42 Comments »
1. He is not a pacifist. Though the CIA-supported rebels in Tibet began fighting in the mid-1950s, he did not tell them to stop until 1974, after the CIA cut off their funding. As recently as 2005, he said, “The Iraq war—it’s too early to say, right or wrong.” (Dalai Lama brings his brand of [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged buddhism, dalai lama, vegetarianism on March 14, 2008 | 39 Comments »
In The Dhammapada, the Buddha says:
If a person does not harm any living being…
and does not kill or cause others to kill-
that person is a true spiritual practitioner.
Yet this is admitted on the Dalai Lama’s web site:
His Holiness is not necessarily vegetarian.
The definition of “not necessarily” is in the Dalai Lama’s claim, “In the early [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged buddhism, dalai lama, slavery, Tibet on October 4, 2007 | 36 Comments »
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