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Word: tibet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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After waiting over ten years for permission to visit the United States--a decadehangingon the intricacies of U.S.-China relations--His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet came to the U.S. this fall, completing a 49-day tour of the country last week with a three-day visit to Harvard...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: Hello Dalai | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

...centuries the Dalai Lama was the god-king of Tibet, spiritual and temporal ruler of an enigmatic Asain civilization hidden among the Himalayas. Today the Dalai Lama remains a spiritual leader for millions of followers of Tibetan Buddhism across the world. But since Communist China took over Tibet twenty years ago, he has become a controversial political figure as well...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: Hello Dalai | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

...Dalai Lama said he expects to return to Tibet someday. He has maintained contact with Tibetan followers, he added...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Dalai Lama May Return To Homeland | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...Whoever would have thought the Dalai Lama would be at St. Patrick's Cathedral?" marveled Newsman Lowell Thomas, 87, who brought Tibet's onetime leader international fame after visiting Lhasa in 1949. But last week there he was, with Terence Cardinal Cooke, speaking in New York City's Roman Catholic landmark. A smiling, maroon-robed holy man, the Dalai Lama is regarded by millions of Tibetans as the incarnation of one of the most powerful and beloved Buddhist divinities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Am a Human Being: a Monk | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Dalai comes from the Mongolian word for ocean, to signify broad knowledge. A lama is a spiritual teacher, akin to the Sanskrit guru. In Tibet, though, the Dalai Lama was head of state and revered not merely as a holy man but as the incarnate Lord of Compassion. His person is crucial to the fate of his landlocked Himalayan homeland, and thus to relations with China and the Soviet Union. He has lived in exile in Dharmsala, India, since 1959, when he fled after Chinese troops crushed a rebellion by Tibetans. His country, he told TIME Correspondent Marcia Gauger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Am a Human Being: a Monk | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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