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Livorno 2014 ; conferenza pubblica, all’interno del Modigliani Forum di Livorno, sull’importanza della promozione dei valori umani e dello sviluppo delle qualità interiori
Livorno 2014; public lecture, within the Modigliani Forum in Livorno, on the importance of promoting human values and the development of interior qualities
The Dalai Lama outside The Usher Hall in Edinburgh earlier today.
I had thought this was going to be a write-off. After getting out of his car, the Dalai Lama was greeting some children on his way inside...but with his back turned towards where the press photographers were waiting.
It looked as if he was about to go inside the hall...when he turned and went to wave to the crowd who were waiting on the far side of the security barrier.
I was extremely lucky that he was looking (more or less) right down the barrel of my lens. My shot of the day, I think. :-)
My thanks are due to Alex Hewitt from The Scotsman for arranging my photo pass.
I visited Tibet in 2004 and you can see my pics here: Tibet
Thanks to Samantha J. Walker for sharing this picturte
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a dress of mine my mother kept, found it in her closet. I was 13 when I wore it, so skinny and awkward, long legs, long hair, very shy, but I loved this brightly coloured pop-art printed dress, and it was considered a mini-dress! haha, it was only four inches above my knees, quite sedate by today's standards :)
Campaña de Apoyo al Tibet, promovida por la Fundación casa del Tibet de Barcelona:
Esta bella pintura del Dalai Lama se encuentra colgada, en la Casa del Tibet (Barcelona) justo detrás de donde se halla expuesto un gran mandala de arena.(No se el nombre del autor)
ver video en Youtube donde está situado este cuadro en este enlace:
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Tenzin Gyatso nació en el Tibet en 1935. En el antiguo régimen teocrático, el Dalai Lama era considerado reencarnación de la divinidad. Cuando un Dalai Lama muere, se cree que a su alrededor entra en el recién nacido, que tras ser identificado, por determinadas pruebas tradicionales, se convierte a su vez en el nuevo Dalai Lama.
Dalai Lama es el título que se le da al jefe espiritual y político del Tibet, desde 1650.
Cuando en 1950, los comunistas chinos ocuparon el Tibet, el enfrentamiento con los tibetanos fue aumentando, hasta que en 1959, tras una rebelión frustrada, el Dalai actual, Tenzin, debió abandonar su tierra y trasladarse a la India, donde fue recibido en calidad de refugiado político. Actualmente vive en Dharamsala, como presidente del gobierno tibetano en el exilio, mientras continúe la invasión china en el Tibet.
Por su oposición pacífica a la dictadura china en el Tibet, recibió el Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1989. Tenzin Gyatso, el actual Dalai Lama, es considerado la 14° reencarnación del Gran Buda. Viaja por el mundo, llevando en su mensaje de unión entre los seres y respeto por todas las creencias.
Su última visita a España fue en septiembre de 2007:
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Entrevista en la TV3
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** enlace a entrevista con Yubten Wangchen
Drew this a few months ago when the Dalai Lama visited Cambridge. This was drawn in the chapel of St. john's College while the Dalai Lama gave a talk.
In 2012, I had the rare privilege of serving as the Dalai Lama’s official photographer during his visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From the moment he arrived at Boston Logan Airport, the week unfolded as an improbable blend of spiritual retreat and high-level diplomacy. The motorcade waited on the tarmac, engines idling. The leadership of the Tibetan government in exile stood assembled in quiet anticipation. Nearby, agents from the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service scanned the perimeter with a watchfulness honed by years of protocol and practice. Then His Holiness stepped off the plane, smiling as if he were arriving at a family reunion rather than a geopolitical moment.
I had been invited by my friend and host for the week, the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, president and CEO of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. Tenzin lives at the intersection of tradition and innovation. A monk with the mind of a systems thinker, he had orchestrated a remarkable week of dialogues and encounters. Scientists, philosophers, entrepreneurs, artists, and spiritual leaders had been invited to take part in something that felt more like a human experiment than a conference.
After the tarmac greetings, the Dalai Lama was driven to the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, where he would prepare for a whirlwind of meetings, blessings, and talks. I had photographed public figures before, politicians, astronauts, Nobel laureates...but nothing prepared me for the duality of this assignment. It was deeply peaceful and spiritual. And it was also a bit like traveling with a rock star. There were motorcades and packed auditoriums, rooms full of admirers and elaborate security logistics. But inside all that machinery, the Dalai Lama moved with disarming simplicity.
He was fully present. Always. He looked everyone in the eye. He laughed often, sometimes with a hint of mischief, and had a way of making each interaction feel like the most important thing happening in the world. And maybe, for that moment, it was.
He greeted Sting and James Taylor with the same warmth and curiosity he offered to the hotel housekeeping staff. He didn’t play favorites. His kindness wasn’t performative. It was his baseline setting. He often reached out and held people’s hands—not out of obligation, but as a kind of offering. A small moment of shared humanity. I watched people light up, tear up, fall into silence. His touch was light, but it landed deep.
Photographing him was one of the most unusual creative experiences of my life. The energy around him could be chaotic, but he wasn’t. There were long stretches of stillness, small windows of time where nothing needed to happen. And then a sudden rush into a room filled with thousands. I often lowered my camera just to stand in it. To witness the quiet magnitude of someone who had made peace his life’s work, and actually lived it.
I remember one morning, just before a private session, he was sitting alone in a small conference room, sipping tea. He began humming softly to himself. When he noticed me, he smiled and nodded. I raised the camera slightly. Another nod.
It’s always risky to meet your heroes. But he didn’t disappoint. He disarmed the myth, and left something better in its place. Something real.
“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
OTTAWA--10/29/07His Holiness the Dalai Lama Greets the crowd at the base of Peace Tower upon his official arrival Oct 29. Photo by STEVE GERECKE
dalai monastery, darjeeling, india
Having fun and keeping warm on a cold and misty day in the monastery
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