Essays about: "Dalai lama"

Found 5 essays containing the words Dalai lama.

  1. 1. Contributions of Religious Leaders to the Conceptualization of World Peace : A comparative case study of Statements by Bahá’í, Catholic, and Tibetan Buddhist Leadership

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Lua Nazerian; [2023]
    Keywords : Religion; Peace and conflict; world peace; international relations; Philosophy; Human nature; Bahá’í; Catholicism; Tibetan Buddhism; Universal House of Justice; Pope Francis; The Dalai Lama.;

    Abstract : In this research, Lua Nazerian examines the conceptualization of three different statements given by leaders of the Bahá'í, Catholic, and Tibetan Buddhist faiths on the topic of world peace. Moreover, through a comparative analysis, each conceptualization was examined in light of the different degrees they agree or contradict each other and whether a coherent contribution could be made to a common concept of world peace. READ MORE

  3. 2. Personal Pronouns, Mirrors of Beliefs? : The Usage of Personal Pronouns in the Speech of a Religious Leader

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Adelaide Foster; [2016]
    Keywords : religious discourse; personal pronouns; Dalai Lama; power; intentionality;

    Abstract : This essay analyses the speech of the Dalai Lama and suggests possible effects that core aspects of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, such as the theory of selflessness, might have when a believer uses the personal pronouns I, you, he, she, we and they. Collected utterances of the Dalai Lama during the Charlie Rose Show has been used in order to conduct a threefold investigation, using pragmatic, discourse analytical and sociolinguistic backgrounds, aiming to understand these effects more thoroughly. READ MORE

  4. 3. Global spirituality - local development

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Author : Rodrigo Hernandez; Andréas Andersson; [2011]
    Keywords : Dalai lama; religion; development; Divine life society; fieldwork; India; local development; spirituality; Sivananda; Tibet; Tibetan government in exile; yoga;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to examine the dynamics between spirituality and development. The point of departure for the study took place in Rishikesh and Dharamsala, in India. Our main object was to examine the role of the Divine Life Society (DLS), in Rishikesh and the Tibetan government in exile, in Dharamsala, in terms of local development. READ MORE

  5. 4. Tibetan migration to India - Why, when, how and with what consequences?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Charlotte Pehrson; [2004]
    Keywords : Samhällsvetenskaper; Social sciences; Migration; Tibet; Kina; Indien; China; India; Social geography; Socialgeografi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : When China occupied Tibet in 1950 in order to "liberate" Tibet from its "economic backwardness" of feudal and religious traditions, the effects were devastating. Tibetans were dispatched to labour camps, monks and nuns were executed or imprisoned, thousands of monasteries and temples were destroyed and communist propaganda was forced upon the Tibetan people. READ MORE

  6. 5. The classification of the Tibetans as a people with the right to self-determination

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Annika Karlsson; [1999]
    Keywords : Folkrätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Tibet, the land of snows, has always in many people's minds been a mystical land with a deeply rooted religion and a people living in harmony with themselves and nature. Once one step outside this picture, the confrontation with the reality of the enormous problems and suffering that the Tibetan people had gone through during the last fifty years becomes almost to painful. READ MORE