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A man his disciples believe to be the incarnation of the Buddha himself, the Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of a 2500-year-old Tibetan religious tradition known as Buddhism. The Dalai Lama has been a political refugee in exile in neighboring India for nearly 40 years. His title means ocean of wisdom and he is the supreme leader, both religious and political, of 6 million Tibetans. His followers believe that over the past 600 years he has died 13 times. On each occasion his soul has returned in a new body or incarnation.
The search for the current Dalai Lama...
Buddhism is the fourth largest religion in the world behind Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. The first Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, founded Buddhism in 535 BC in Northern India. The Buddhism religion spread itself across Asia in two main forms, Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana. Tibetan Buddhism developed on its own based on the isolated location of Tibet. In the 19th century Modern Buddhism emerged as an international movement.
The origins of Buddhism take us back to the year 600 BC to the plains of Northeast India. Here, an event occurred as momentous for Buddhists as the birth of Jesus Christ is for...
