Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past eight months he has used Kyoto -- either the temple or a tiny apartment in the ancient city -- as a base camp for his forays around Japan and into the Himalayas. Iyer's trips have provided grist for a book in progress and recent TIME stories on the Dalai Lama and Tokyo Disneyland. "I try to catch the inner stirrings of a country," he says. "Over the past year I observed the summer solstice in Iceland, attended the Wimbledon tennis matches and went to Cuba for Carnaval." Iyer, 31, can focus his attention on something as small as the comma...
Though the poor are most affected by the uprising, middle-class Palestinians also must adjust to the new reality. Edward Lama feels trapped between threats from the uprising's leaders to close his souvenir shop on Bethlehem's main street and orders from the army to stay open. Most days his door is open, but he spends the hours sipping coffee in his deserted shop, while his two dozen employees slump behind counters of glittering gold, olive-wood crucifixes and brass trinkets. Business is down more than 50% since the intifadeh began, and Lama's income does not cover...
...Chinese to be up against one of those rare souls it is all but impossible to dislike. Beijing has felt it necessary to call him a "political corpse, bandit and traitor," a "red- handed butcher who subsisted on people's flesh." Yet everyone who meets the Dalai Lama is thoroughly disarmed by his good-natured warmth and by a charisma all the stronger for being so gentle...
...living Buddha can seem a profoundly lonely one. In recent years, moreover, nearly all the people closest to the Tibetan ruler -- his senior tutor, his junior tutor, his mother and the elder brother who in youth was his only playmate -- have died. Yet this, like everything else, the Dalai Lama takes, in the deepest sense, philosophically. "Old friends pass away, new friends appear," he says with cheerful matter-of- factness. "It's just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful...
Tibet' s Dalai Lama is a remote, otherworldly God- King, yet he is leading 6 million of his countrymen in a struggle for freedom...