{"id":933,"date":"2022-09-23T05:19:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/?p=933"},"modified":"2022-09-23T05:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:30:45","slug":"understanding-the-dalai-lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/understanding-the-dalai-lama\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/10-2-704x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-934\" width=\"352\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/10-2-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/10-2-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/10-2-768x1118.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/10-2-1055x1536.jpg 1055w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/10-2-1407x2048.jpg 1407w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/10-2.jpg 1759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Understanding the Dalai Lama<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the remarkable exiled spiritual and temporal head of Tibet, is a statesman for our troubled times. This collection of 11 essays by scholars, writers, theologians, and others whose lives he has touched represents a broad spectrum of perspectives on this Nobel Peace Prize recipient who is also a living Buddha to six million followers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Included among the contributions are personal reflections by those who have been privileged to get to know His Holiness, as well as illuminating introductions to some of his core beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Editor Rajiv Mehrotra, who contributes the book\u2019s first essay, says of the Dalai Lama, &#8220;As with all truly great and inspiring leaders, his life is his message and philosophy.&#8221; The essays in this volume shed light on that fascinating life . . . painting the portrait of a tireless champion of compassion, altruism, and peace who is both deeply spiritual and disarmingly human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Published by Hay House Inc, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the Dalai Lama His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the remarkable exiled spiritual and temporal head of Tibet, is a statesman for our troubled times. This collection of 11 essays by scholars, writers, theologians, and others whose lives he has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}