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...later went to Tibet to report for us on what that peaceful society was going through under martial law. As fans of his travel writings know, Pico's curiosity has led him to nearly every corner of the globe, but he has always found himself returning to the monk in Dharamsala. He wrote another long piece on the Dalai Lama for us in 1997, so in a sense, Pico has been updating TIME readers on this figure of global fascination every 10 years...
...every three of them Chinese). On the main streets alone, by one Western scholar's count, there are 238 dance halls and karaoke parlors and 658 brothels, and the Potala Palace-for centuries a symbol of a culture whose people were ruled by a monk and home to nine Dalai Lamas-is now mockingly surrounded by an amusement park...
...crisis unfolds will be determined not just in Beijing but also by the words and actions of a man who protects his people from afar, in his exile home in the northern-India hill station of Dharamsala. As a Buddhist monk, the Dalai Lama speaks unstintingly on behalf of all people's rights to basic freedoms of speech and thought-though as a Buddhist monk, he also holds staunchly to the view that violence can never solve a problem deep down. If the bloodshed gets out of control, he said in recent days, he will step down as political leader...
...mind pledged to examine things only as they are, to come up with a clear diagnosis and then to suggest a practical response-is one of the things that have made the current Dalai Lama such a startling and tonic figure on the world stage. There are few monks in any tradition who speak so rarely about faith while rejecting anything that has been disproved by scientific inquiry; on his desk at home, he keeps a plastic model of the brain with detachable parts so that he can take it apart, put it together again and see how it works...
...unveil all the fruits of its recent remarkable economic achievements, oppressed citizens in Tibet and elsewhere will no doubt use the same opportunity to remind the world of what has been lost in terms of freedom and humanity in the rush for those achievements. The calm scientist in monk robes, however, with his habit of looking at the deeper causes beneath every surface, will surely keep noting that the only revolution that lasts and that can truly help us toward a better world is the one that begins inside...