The other His Holiness.CHICAGO--The Dalai Lama seems to be the hottest holy man since Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II) born Karol Józef Wojtyła . Much like the pontiff, the world's most famous Buddhist came off as part moral leader, part media celebrity during his 17-day visit in August to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Indiana, and Illinois. Whether meeting with politicians, performing ancient rituals, or giving a free speech to 40,000 in New York's Central Park, the Dalai Lama's sunny personality, quick wit, and nonsectarian message of peace, compassion, and human rights went over well with American spiritual seekers. Drawing from his bestselling book, Ethics for a New Millennium (Riverhead riv·er·head n. The source of a river. Books, 1999), the Dalai Lama urged a universal ethic of compassion based on the natural human desire for happiness. "Of course, everyone wants happiness," he told a packed hall at Chicago's Field Museum, where some paid $125 for the chance to hear the exiled political and spiritual leader. Buddhists consider the Dalai Lama both the reincarnated personification personification, figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstract ideas are endowed with human qualities, e.g., allegorical morality plays where characters include Good Deeds, Beauty, and Death. of divine compassion as well as the monarch of Tibet. In 1989, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. for advocating a nonviolent approach to the Communist Chinese takeover of his country. |
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