Heads up there are frank discussions of suicide and domestic violence in this conversation. Many have been arrested for hanging the Dalai Lamas portrait or. Beijing inundates their monasteries with propaganda. A decision on his future could be reached any day. Since then He has lived in the Himalayan foothills in Dharamsala, India, the seat of the Tibetan Government-in-exile, a constitutional democracy since 1963. The vast majority more than 6 million still live in China. The Dalai Lama is also considered to be the successor in a line of tulkus who are believed 2 to be incarnations of Avalokitevara, 1 the Bodhisattva of Compassion. After his morning shower, His Holiness begins the day with prayers, meditations and prostrations until 5 am. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso, who lives as a refugee in India. (Photo courtesy of Manuel Bauer) When His Holiness is at home in Dharamsala, he wakes up at 3 am. Jarvis’s current appeal sits before a federal judge as we speak. His Holiness the Dalai Lama exercising on his treadmill in his residence in Dharamsala, HP, India on 15 August, 2004. Share His Holiness the Dalai Lama will attend a Long Life Prayer offered to him by students, staff and Ex-Students of Tibetan Homes Foundation & CST Mussoorie along with Ex-Students and Ex-Vocational Trainees of CST Panchmari at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, HP, India on April 5, 2023. Both feature forewords by the renowned meditation teacher Pema Chödrön, who has been on this show, and his second book was endorsed by the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and also by Oprah Winfrey, who selected the book for her famous book club last year. Jarvis has now written and published two books about his life, Finding Freedom and That Bird Has My Wings. Shortly after Jarvis’s death sentence, he became interested in Buddhism, and started developing a rigorous practice under the tutelage of a Tibetan lama, Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. The current Dalai Lama was exiled from Tibet in 1959 after a failed Tibetan. (Read the Dalai Lama’s Britannica essay on compassion.) It is a tenet of Tibetan Buddhism (which traditionally has flourished not only in Tibet but in Mongolia, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and other parts of India and China) that highly advanced religious teachers return to the world after their death, motivated by their compassion for the world. Jarvis has now spent more than three decades on death row, including more than two decades in solitary confinement. In the past, Dalai Lamas have also served as the political leaders of Tibet. Any of us who meditate do our best to apply it to life’s ups and downs - but this person has been applying it in some truly extreme circumstances. You’re going to meet a man named Jarvis Jay Masters, who I interviewed from his cell on death row at San Quentin prison in California. Today we have a truly incredible episode about how to meditate in hell.
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