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...Dalai Lama's Greatest Trial I was deeply moved by Pico Iyer's "A Monk's Struggle" [March 31]. Despite the Dalai Lama's half-century of exile and the erosion of Tibetan culture due to the Chinese occupation of Tibet, the Buddhist leader maintains his lucid and compassionate vision. In the face of Chinese oppression, the fact that he sees the advantages of China's modernizing influence and envisions an autonomous Tibet within Chinese borders is a testament to his infinite wisdom. If our next President and other world leaders could emulate the Dalai Lama's compassionate politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...Dalai Lama and brought back a picture of the shy 24-year-old for his son. That picture sat on Pico's desk for 30 years, until 1990, when a fire roared through his family's house, wiping out everything including the photo and bringing home to him the Buddhist idea of the impermanence of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tackling Tibet | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...chance to photograph the Dalai Lama, he would drop everything and do it. He got the chance and spent five days in March with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. He was permitted into His Holiness's private residence to photograph the Dalai Lama praying and reading from Buddhist texts. In his quiet intensity, his down-to-earth centeredness and his relentless focus, he resembles the unique man he photographed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tackling Tibet | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...only to fulfill the work of the previous Dalai Lama; therefore, any young child selected by Chinese authorities and declared to be the 15th Dalai Lama, a Beijing puppet, will not be the true "Dalai Lama of Tibetan hearts." As practical and flexible as ever and holding to the Buddhist ideas of impermanence and nonattachment, he told me as far back as 1996, "At a certain stage, the Dalai Lama institution will disappear. But that does not mean that Tibetan Buddhist culture will cease. No!" Most Tibetans, however, cannot abide the thought of a future without their traditional leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Monk's Struggle | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...regard, it hardly matters whether the terms Dalai Lama or Buddhism or even Tibet continue to exist. As it is, thanks to the exodus of Tibetans in the past half-century, Tibetan culture and Buddhism have become part of the global neighborhood. Whereas there were all of two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West in 1968, there are now more than 40 in New York City alone. In Taiwan, there are more than 200. More French people call themselves Buddhist than Protestant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Monk's Struggle | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

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