![]() better provide China with supplies to fight and resist the Japanese. Tolstoy and Dolan went to Tibet to examine the possibility of constructing a road from India to China that would run through Tibet in order to help the U.S. The two intelligence agents were Ilia Tolstoy (who the book describes as the "émigré grandson of the Russian novelist") and Brooke Dolan. intelligence service that was the forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency). However, it was not personally presented by FDR, but was presented to the Dalai Lama in Lhasa, Tibet, on behalf of President Roosevelt by two intelligence agents in the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS for short (the World War II U.S. He has now resigned from all political responsibilities, by the way.The Patek Philippe was given to the Dalai Lama by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1943. The reason why he is so well known all over the world is that he took leadership of the tibetan government in exile when they were forced to flee from China. People generally think of him as a "Pope" of all Buddhists, this is not the case. On a side note, the dalai lama is only the spiritual leader of one of the 4 major schools of tibetan Buddhism, the Gelugpa. Google New Kadampa tradition Dalai lama and you will soon get the picture. These people try hard to discredit the dalai lama but the vast majority of tibetan Buddhists respect him and think of him as a great leader. Many people have been destroyed by this sect and you can find stories all over the Internet. This practice is mainly advertised by members of the NKT (new kadampa tradition), which is a sort of messed up Buddhist sect which has ties with the Chinese government. ![]() The dalai lama banned worship of this deity, because he was afraid that tibetan Buddhism was becoming a cult religion. This comes from the dorje shugden controversy. Hes trying to preserve his flavor of buddhism by giving his culture an evolutionary chance, if not, then either his culture stays isolated and slowly dies or his culture is assimilated into the rest of the world and loses its identity. In order for a Philosophy to be alive it has to have a dynamic relationship with its environment and its people, it has to constantly be changing and evolving because it comes from the inward expiriences of its people. This might seem non-buddhist to scholars, but its a living embodiment of buddhist principals. His goal is to try to bring tibet to the rest of the world and to globalize their culture so that the impact of China won't lead them to forget who they are. Hes mostly afraid of his people losing touch with their culture as tibetan monestaries shut down and children start going to public school and start learning chinese. This is because he sees ths problem of china colonizing tibet differently. People are kind of torn as to how they feel about his leadership because he doesnt spend all that much time in his home country. He meditates on the four noble truths every morning for about 5 hours, and he completely embodies what he teaches, but he knows the world is changing and he cant keep his perspective without updating it a little. If someone asks the dali lama who he is, he'll say hes a simple buddhist monk. He isnt really a fan of Tibet's system of reincarnation because his brother, himself, and many peoplr he studied with were given titles of being a high stature reincarnate and he thought all this was kind of silly and arbitrary. Yeah, some people really criticize the dali lama for not staying true to the tibetan "faith", but this is because he is one of the few religious leaders in the world who wont believe something that science directly disproves. ![]() This includes photos, which are not obviously retro and portraits of famous young women doing nothing but posing. Please add the info in the comments.ĥ: All reposts less than six months old and all reposts less than a year old from Top 100 will be removed.ħ: We reserve the right to remove any post that doesn't showcase historical coolness. Nobody cares about your sexual impulses, least of all the OP.Ĥ: All posts highlighting, in the title, that someone has recently passed away or titles trying to evoke sympathy upvotes will be deleted. Offensive comments include anything about pimping, about people's moms and scoring women. ![]() If you've found a photo, video, or photo essay of people from the past looking fantastic, here's the place to share it.ġ: Photos and videos must be over 25 years old.Ģ: Please put the year or decade in title, otherwise your post will be removed.ģ: Spam, racist, homophobic, sexist and offensive comments, as well as brigading, consistent reposting and shitposting, will result in a lifetime ban. A pictorial and video celebration of history's coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. ![]()
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