Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama (dä´lì lä´me) noun
The traditional governmental ruler and highest priest of the Lamaist religion in Tibet and Mongolia.
[Tibetan : Mongolian dalai, ocean + Tibetan bla-ma, monk (so called because he is known as the ocean of compassion).]

Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama (dä´lì lä´me), "oceanic teacher," title of the leader of TIBETAN BUDDHISM. Believed like his predecessors to be the incarnation of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, 1935-, gave up cooperation with the Chinese and fled into exile (1959). He has traveled widely, pleading the Tibetan cause. Recipient of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, the Dalai Lama wrote an autobiography, Freedom in Exile (1990).

The Dalai Lama on the Earthdance (Chris Decker and Return to the Source)  concept:
"I feel the role of music and dance in helping planetary peace can be very useful.  I have the opinion that any message can be channelled in different ways to reach its audience.  Dance or music, I think are a very effective method to reach millions of people who may not have the capacity, interest or awareness to find out about Tibet otherwise."

• The Dalai Lama's favorite form of footwear is apparently Doc Martens.
• he is a vegetarian

on prostitution, a victimless crime:

"To have sexual relations with a prostitute paid by you and not by a third person does not, on the other hand, constitute improper behaviour."  from _What is Enlightenment_, Spring/Summer 98

This is apparently a real toy sold at the Jesus Christ Superstore.  Included is an AK-12 automatic and silencer... Amazing.
 
 

video (vhs/ntsc) for track _378_ by Emergency Broadcast Network off of _Telecommunications Breakdown_ (a reference to Led Zeppelin's _Communication Breakdown_ MP3) CDPlus    on TVT (1995) depicts the Dalai Lama with the cherub from the film _Prospero's Books_ (vhs/ntsc) directed by Peter Greenaway.  _Prospero's Books_ is based on _The Tempest_ by William Shakespeare
 
 

• Tibetan Freedom Concert
• endorses the annual _Earthdance_ - an organized party linking various locales throughout the world on the same night
• track _Dalai Lama Overdrive_ by KX Noizsystem KX009 (1996)
• 604 track _Dance Like Nobody Is Watching_ by Space Tribe off of _Religious Experience_ CD on Spirit Zone (2000)
• sample: "Instructions for life, Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.  Respect for self, respect for others, and responsibility for all your actions.  Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. Spend some time alone every day. Approach love with reckless abandon. Share your knowledge, it's a way to achieve immortality. Be gentle with the earth. Dance like nobody's watching"   - Dalai Lama
• dub meditation release _Life.Space.Death_ CD by Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, Dalai Lama on Meta (2002)
•  _Life_ MP3 (160k) 
• _Space_ MP3 (160k)
• _Death_
• spoken word sound poem _Dada Lama_ MP3 (192k) by bpNichol (1966)
• supporters include: Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Annie Lennox, Jennifer Connelly (_Requiem For A Dream_)
• Beastie Boys
• Milarepa Fund
• Anomalog: Spinning Those Mantra Wheels Can Be Tiring. Let Your Hard Drive Do It For You @ 7200rpm

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