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The Dalai Lama

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by Alexander Norman

See also political discord; protests; rebellion/rebellions; riots

  Deng Xiaoping

  on Buddhajyanti celebration, 156

  Dalai Lama and, 248, 255, 259

  Gyalo Thondup’s proposal to, 244

  one country, two systems policy, 255 n

  Tiananmen Square, 271–72

  Desi Sangye Gyatso, 102 n, 383 n313

  Desideri, Ippolite, 352–53 n41

  Dharamsala, India

  anti–Dalai Lama posters, 283

  Dalai Lama’s new-year address, 281

  Dorje Shugden/Nechung controversy, 283–84

  exile government locale, 202–4

  visits, by foreigners, 209–10, 219–20

  immigrant vs. resident communities, 283

  martyrs’ memorial, 309

  Padmasambhava statue consecrated, 232–33

  Richard Moore visit, 302

  dharma, 70, 128, 160

  dhih, 75

  Diamond Path, 127

  Ditru Rinpoché, 60 n, 97

  dob dob, 71, 356 n71

  Doenye Ling Monastery, 356 n70

  dolgyal (king demon), 296

  Dolma, Tsering (older sister), 37, 50

  Dorje Drakden (deity), 64, 235, 287–91

  Dorje Shugden (deity), 81, 128

  advocates in exile, 297

  authenticity, 286–87

  causing future turmoil, 298

  Dalai Lama and, 182, 191, 193, 239–40, 254, 282–86, 295, 296, 297–98

  dolgyal king demon, 296

  Drakpa Gyaltsen, 294 n

  Gelug tradition, 234, 282

  Glorious Goddess, 239–40

  Lotus-Born exalted over, 282

  Manjushri, 286

  Panglung oracle, 295

  representing movement away from the world, 320–21

  Shar Ganden Monastery, 298

  Significance of, 285

  statues removed, 281–82

  Tsongkhapa and, 291

  Western devotees, 296

  Yellow Book, The, 234

  dra tseng, 71

  Drakpa Gyaltsen (Tibetan lama), 293–94, 294 n

  dreams, 82, 224–25, 266, 351 n34

  Drepung (India), 208

  Drepung (Tibet), 172–74, 292, 312–13, 374 n216

  Drepung Monastery, 4, 20, 59, 70, 90, 297

  dri churra, xviii

  Dromo, 124–25, 132, 166

  Dulles, John Foster, 170

  Dungkhar Monastery, 124, 126–27, 362 n126

  Dungkhar oracle, 361 n124

  Dzambu Ling (Rose Garden), 105

  dzogchen, 81, 242

  E

  East Pakistan, 169, 227–29

  education, 66–67, 69–70, 74–75

  debate, importance of, 99–102

  of inequality, 98

  meditation and spiritual practice, 103–7

  memorization and concentration, 76–77

  tutors, 78–83, 87–88

  Westerners and, 107–12

  Eighth Dalai Lama. See Dalai Lama (8th)

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 196

  Ekai Kawaguchi, 58, 354 n57, 356 n71

  elephant metaphor, 103

  Eleven-Face Avalokiteśvara, 127

  Eleventh Kirti Rinpoché, 227

  Elizabeth II (Queen), 274 n

  emptiness, 104–5

  England. See Great Britain

  Enlightenment, 73, 101 n, 106, 127, 362–63 n127

  enthronement ceremony, 65–66

  Establishment/Unit 22. See Special Frontier Force (Establishment/Unit 22)

  Estonia, 275

  Ethics for the New Millennium (Dalai Lama), 263

  exile

  after Lhasa’s bombardment, 190–93

  during British occupation, 8

  during Chinese occupation, 124, 126, 130

  constitution, 207

  contemplation of, 129–30

  information access during, 198–99

  modernization and, 205–7

  recognition of Tibet during, 161, 163

  women and, 206

  F

  family

  vs. aristocracy, 60–61

  caravan to Lhasa, 50

  Gyalo Thondup (brother). See Gyalo Thondup (brother)

  gyalyum chenmo (mother), 39, 40–41, 47, 53, 60, 61, 69, 146, 148, 254, 351 n34

  Jetsun Pema (sister), 50

  Jigme Norbu (brother), 130, 137, 144, 158, 159, 169, 170, 269

  land owned by, 352 n37

  Lobsang Samten (brother). See Lobsang Samten (brother)

  Ngari Rinpoché (brother), 141, 194

  Tsering Dolma (sister), 37, 50

  uncle, 47, 50

  yabshi kung (father), 52–53, 61, 85, 92

  See also Lhamo Thondup; Taktser Rinpoché

  Fan Ming, General, 164

  Festival of Mahakala, 84

  Fifth Dalai Lama. See Dalai Lama (Great 5th)

  First Dalai Lama. See Dalai Lama (1st)

  films, 173, 310, 383 n310

  finances, 89

  Five Poisons, 150–51

  Five Principles of Coexistence, 151

  food, 38–39

  Ford, Gerald, 246

  Ford, Robert, 107 n, 117, 120, 120 n, 128

  Forrest, George, 10, 11, 12, 349 n11

  Four Noble Truths, 100, 327

  Fourteenth Dalai Lama. See Dalai Lama (14th)

  Fourth Dalai Lama. See Dalai Lama (4th)

  Fox, Reginald, 107 n, 128

  Freedom in Exile (Dalai Lama), xiii, 83, 271

  funding and finances, 72, 78 n, 201, 208–9, 223, 238

  G

  Gaddi (indigenous Indian tribespeople), 283, 283 n

  Gadong (oracle), 122, 164, 182

  Ganden (India), 208, 297

  Ganden (Tibet)

  assassination attempt on abbot, 284

  destruction of, 249, 249 n

  Dorje Shugden, 281

  exams, of Dalai Lama, 173

  Ganden Monastery, 20, 21, 59, 70

  101st Ganden Throne Holder, 297–98

  Tsongkhapa, 292

  Ganden Lha Gya Ma (Hundred Deities of Ganden), 77

  Ganden Phodrang government, xix, 282, 302, 310

  Ganden Throne Holder, 64–65

  Gandhi, Indira, 224, 224 n, 228–29, 231

  Gandhi, Mahatma, 110, 152, 159, 208, 365 n152

  Gautama Buddha, 35 n

  Gelder, Stuart and Roma, 190 n, 216, 374 n216

  Gelug tradition, 13, 69–70, 81, 124

  Chod practices within, 242–43, 242 n

  Collected Topics (handbook), 101

  Dalai Lama, view of, 286

  Dorje Shugden, 234

  on emptiness, 104–5

  Enlightenment, 242

  expansion of, 293

  founder, 155

  Kadam tradition and, 234

  mahamudra teachings within, 242

  Mongolian allies, 293

  Namgyal monastic community, 287

  vs. non-Gelug Buddhists, 234, 278

  Nyingma tradition and, 293

  101st Ganden Throne Holder, 297–98

  protection of, 282

  protests of, 277–78

  Shugden devotees and, 283

  tantras, 362–63 n127

  variations, 242–43, 256

  Yellow Book, The, 234

  Gendun Drub (1st Dalai Lama), 121

  Genesis, 106

  Genghis Khan, 9

  Gere, Richard, 275–76

  geshe, 90

  Geshe Wangyal, 169, 170, 196, 219, 246–47, 325

  geshema (academic degree for nuns), 328

  getsul ceremony, 79–80

  Ghazi bin Mohammed (Prince), 316

  gifts for Dalai Lama, 84

  Ginsberg, Alan, 196, 210–12, 219, 252–53, 373 n210

  Glass, Philip, 276

  Glorious Goddess (Palden Lhamo), 28, 29, 62

  accessibility of, 238

  Dalai Lama and, 182, 184, 238–39

  Dor
je Shugden and, 238

  Ladakh and, 320

  Ling Rinpoché and, 258

  painting, 164, 184, 238, 240

  tsok propitiation of, 238, 238 n

  golden throne, 168

  Golden Urn, 278–79

  Goleman, Daniel, 265

  Gombojav Tsybikov, 232

  Gonpo Tashi Andrugstang, 168, 172, 200

  Gould, Sir Basil, 66, 310, 351 n28, 354 n57

  Graham, Isa, xxi

  Graves, Richard, 360 n109

  Great Britain, 6–7, 49, 66, 116, 121–22, 275, 321, 365 n152

  Great Helmsman. See Mao Zedong

  Great Leap Forward (China), 202, 217–18, 374–75 n218, 374 n217

  Great Prayer Festival (Monlam Chenmo), 62, 64, 89–92, 167, 172, 268, 270, 287–92

  Group of Thirteen, 206–7

  Grueber, Johannes, 296 n

  gson dre, 42

  Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (Shantideva), 212

  Gushri Khan (Mongol warlord), 293–94

  Gyalo Thondup (brother), 37, 50, 52, 86, 130

  China and, 159, 266–67

  Dalai Lama and, 209, 267

  Deng Xiaoping, 244

  in India, 163

  Nixon and, 223

  Panchen Lama, 278–79

  Special Frontier Force recruiter, 214

  support, garnering, 151

  Tashi Tsering and, 374–75 n218

  United Nations, 206

  gyalyum chenmo (mother), 39

  vs. attendants, 69

  on China trip, 146

  Dalai Lama on, 47

  dreams, 351 n34

  on kyirong, 40–41

  last days and death, 254

  in Lhasa, 53, 61

  on Taktser after Chinese invasion, 148

  Tenzin Geyche Tethong on, 355 n61

  on visit to Chensalingka, 60

  Gyantse (fortress), 7, 8

  Gyuto Monastery, 75

  H

  Han, 8 n, 86, 306

  Harrer, Heinrich, 124, 128, 207

  Chinese and, 243

  as friend, 132, 197, 210

  Seven Years in Tibet, 243, 360 n109

  as tutor, 107–12

  Harrison, George, 228–29

  Harvard University, 226, 247, 251

  Hawn, Goldie, 276

  hearth deities, 42, 43

  hell regions, 105–6

  Helms, Jesse, 266

  hermits, 124, 226

  Himmler, Heinrich, 108

  Hinayana (non-Mahayana Buddhism), 80 n

  Hitchens, Christopher, 319

  homosexual relationships, 79, 357 n79

  Hong Kong, 244, 255 n

  Hopkins, Jeffrey, 247–48

  Hoskins, John, 163

  Howarth, David, 209–10

  Hu Yaobang, 249, 250, 255, 271, 280

  hu-hu, 39

  Hui, 39–40, 46, 86, 295, 306

  human rights

  Chinese assault on, in Tibetan, 223

  Congressional Human Rights Caucus, 266

  Dalai Lama known in human rights groups, 273

  Deng Xiaoping’s acceptance, 266

  International Human Rights Day, 270

  Thondup’s proposals to Deng Xiaoping, 266

  in Tibet, 246

  trade prioritized over human rights, 276

  Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 300–301

  human scapegoats, 43, 353 n43

  Hundred Flowers campaign (China), 217

  hungry ghosts, 105–6, 329

  I

  ignorance, 102, 138, 150

  Imperial Preceptor, 114

  India

  Air Force Academy, 162

  Bangladesh refugee problem, 228

  British in, 7, 365 n152

  Buddhist centers and monasteries, 314, 325

  channel for rebel armaments, 201

  China’s accord with (1954), 151, 198

  Congressional Human Rights Caucus, 267

  cyclone of 1971, 227

  Dalai Lama in, 130, 156, 191, 194, 198–99, 223, 317, 325

  Dorje Shugden, 282

  Kalachakra initiations in, 316

  Lobsang Gyatso, 285–86

  partitioned, 228

  PLA and, 213–14

  relations with Tibet, 283

  Sino-Indian War (1962), 213–14, 224

  Special Frontier Force and, 239

  thermonuclear testing, 319

  Tibetan independence and, 116, 121–22, 198

  war with Pakistan, 229–31

  Indian army, xix–xx

  inequity, 98, 107, 126, 133, 148, 150

  See also aristocracy; women

  Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, 233

  International Commission of Jurists, 199–200, 371 n192, 374–75 n218

  International Human Rights Day, 270

  Ireland, 275

  Islam, 315

  Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 228

  Iyer, Pico, 251

  J

  Jack, Archie, 360 n108, 362 n126

  Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, 252

  Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, 61

  Japan, 213, 317, 325

  Jataka Tales, 153

  Je Tsongkhapa, 13, 77

  Jetsun Pema (sister), 50

  Jetsundamba Lama, 8

  Jews and Judaism, 315, 323–24

  Jiang Zemin, 303–4

  Jigme Norbu (brother), 130, 137, 144, 158, 159, 163, 169, 170, 269

  See also Taktser Rinpoché

  Jinpa, Dr. Thupten, 301

  John Paul II (Pope), 275

  John XVIII (Pope), 221 n

  Jokhang Temple

  Dalai Lama’s exam venue, 172, 174

  demonstration/riot scene, 267–68, 380 n267

  despoiled, 249, 249 n

  importance of, 62

  Lotus-Born’s statue consecration, 233

  March riots (1959), 178–79

  Reincarnation at, signs of, 28

  Jon Kabat Zin, 265

  Jonang Buddhism, 241

  K

  Kadam tradition, 234

  Kahneman, Daniel, 265

  Kalachakra initiations, 134, 137–39, 155, 227, 240, 251, 275–76, 317

  Kali, 121

  Kalimpong, India, 163

  Kalu Rinpoché, 363 n127

  Karmapa (head of Karma Kargyu tradition), 304, 324, 383 n304

  Kargyu tradition

  Buddhism’s second diffusion, 234, 241

  Dorje Shugden’s origins, 294 n

  Karma Kargyu tradition, 304

  mahamudra teachings, 241–42

  Ogyen Trinley Dorje, 304

  Tsang (King), 293

  karma, 35, 72, 85, 101, 104–6, 125, 138

  Karma Pakshi, 72 n

  Kashag (Dalai Lama’s cabinet)

  on asylum, 158

  attack on Tibet (1950s), 119

  on Chinese claims, 244

  Dalai Lama (Great 13th), 7

  fortifications, 180

  Lotus-Born’s statue, 233

  Lungshar’s vision of, 23, 25

  March riots (1959), 178, 181, 182

  on Panchen Lama’s funeral, 271

  Kashmir, 151

  kathag, xx, 94

  Kewtsang Rinpoché, 30–34, 45, 46, 48, 49

  khabse, xix, 39

  Kham province, 9

  attacks on, 118

  Chinese occupation of, 152, 166, 176

  collective farming, 171

  Dorje Shugden’s cult in, 295

  ethnic Chinese populations, 322

  Larung Gar monastic settlement, 322

  monks’ self-immolations, 309

  “pacification of,” 12–13

  population, 322

  riots and resistance, 171, 172, 307

  as part of Tibet proper, 255, 270

  Xunhua Incident, 171

  Khampas (natives of Kham), 118

  arrests, by Chinese, 149

  Chinese occupation, 19
2–93

  CIA and, 168, 169–70

  Dalai Lama, 168

  vs. Lhasa government, 168–69, 193

  National Assembly and, 172

 

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