The Dalai Lama greets Sumitra Gandhi Kulkarni, grand-daughter of Mahatma Gandhi, during the Jangchup Lamrim teachings at the Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, 135 miles west of Bangalore, India, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013. The ten-day teachings began Dec. 25. (AP Photo/Abhishek N. Chinnappa)
Once again the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, has graced American soil and broadcast television with his message of happiness. In an interview with CBS's Norah O'Donnell, the Dalai Lama discussed a range of topics, from China's new leadership and the future of Tibet to the relationship between emotion and health.
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There are so many things to discuss with the Dalai Lama, but why not skip all that "important" spirituality/political stuff and cut straight to the point like Piers Morgan did when he asked the big question: "His Holiness, you ever want to get it wet?" True to his position the Dalai Lama answered that he's not drawn to the …
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A charity auction site is also offering the chance to meet the Dalai Lama, but the highest bid on that honor is a mere $5,000. We can therefore conclude that Robert Pattinson is six times better than His Holiness.
The Dalai Lama had his first live interview ever on the Today Show this morning. Unfortunately the momentous occasion was guided by Ann Curry, who treated the 75-year-old like a very adorable, very holy infant.
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[Canberra, Australia; March 10. Image via Getty]
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[Tawang, India; November 11. Image via Getty]
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[Tawang, India; November 9. Image via Getty]
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"I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?" said the Dalai Lama to an audience in Memphis yesterday. "We all come from the same mother. That creates the basis for compassion." [FeministLawProfessors]
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[Roqueredonde, France, August 22. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]
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Here's a ray of sunshine to anyone who ever wondered if their massive personal reserves of good karma were never going to amount to anything: the Dalai Lama just scored a meeting with the government that excommunicated him in 1959! Oh sure, and the cops who killed that nice unarmed electrician the day before his…
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So...China. Like, oy, right? Yesterday San Francisco rained on the protesters' plan to rain on the Olympic torch relay, but so many questions remain. Where did all these angry Crouching Tiger bridge scaling people come from? Isn't Tibet a kind of nineties cause? Are the protesters just holdovers from the anti-WTO…
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[March 21, Dharamasala. Image via AP.]
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Hey look! It turns out that whole time Bill Richardson was poking little rhetorical holes in Barack Obama's record, he was actually in the back of his mind thinking, "Wow, America, if you listen to all this "experience" bullshit, you're spoiling a ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME CHANCE." A once-in-a-lifetime chance to elect a Hamas…
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Donna Karan is the Huffington Post's new health care blogger. This makes total sense given the way that, as we discussed before, health care is sort of like fashion, what with the pharmaceutical companies having to change the makeup of their antidepressants every so often, sorta like hemlines and whatnot! But no,…
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