For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under Chinese Communist Party rule, sustaining the cause from exile even as an increasingly powerful Beijing has become ever more assertive in suppressing it.
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I would like to tell the story told to me about how Geshe Lobsang Gyatso from Kham accompanied the Dalai Lama when he went to India to escape death or worse at the hands of the Chinese Government.
The Dalai Lama and his entourage including Geshe Lobsang Gyatso arrived in India on March 30th 1959 after many of his party were killed by the strafing of fighter air planes machine gunning them from the air to kill them all and many of the Dalai Lama's Party died this way or some hit kept going and then died later from their wounds but finally at least the Dalai Lama and some of his followers made it safely to India where the Indian Government Gave the Dalai Lama Dharamshala, India for his Tibetan Government in exile.
Geshe Lobsang Gyatso (Geshe means "Spiritual Friend" in Tibetan) which is one of the Lama titles used in the Gelukpa tradition of the Dalai Lama's sect of Tibetan Buddhism even though the Dalai Lama is leader of all sects of Tibetan Buddhism and well respected around the world as a Non-Violent leader in some what the same way that Gandhi is remembered for his non-violent approach to social change.
I agree with this Non-violent approach to social change and so also did Martin Luther King before he was assassinated like President Kennedy and his brother Bobby who also believed in a non-violent approach to solving problems in the world wherever possible.
Geshe Lobsang Gyatso I met in Santa Cruz, California because he was visiting Lama Yeshe of Boulder Creek to help with his passing on and reincarnation as a Spanish boy then around 1983 I believe. Again I met with my family Geshe Lobsang Gyatso in Bodhgaya, India in December of 1985 for the Kalachakra Tantric initiation attended by about 500,000 Tibetan Buddhist from literally all over the world which is a 4 day initiation that all Tibetan Buddhists want to have before they pass on to go to Shamabala to be with the King of Shambala in this Realm after they pass on as Tibetan Buddhists.
One of the most interesting things for me about this initiation with the Dalai Lama is that it is supposed to rain on all the people getting this initiation which is one of the signs that this initiation took on everyone present who gets rained on.
Later in Dharamshala the man that made it rain was pointed out to me which I found very interesting and Amazing because the whole sky was bare and it was hot and dry and suddenly this cloud formed directly above the 500,000 people and this cloud formed and then it rained.
When someone told me that this was about to happen I didn't believe them because I'm from America but it did happen and I was left with my mouth open to witness this first hand.
By God's Grace
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