The Dalai Lama 14th is a well-known world figure, who fights for the rights of his indigenous people in Tibet that led to his confrontation with the Chinese authorities. Like all great revolutionaries, the Dalai Lama has faced severe criticism. He has been criticized for many things, including the acceptance of the CIA’s support and support of a resistance movement in Colorado. His cosy relations with India have also been a subject of debate like Tibetan issues. This paper seeks to explore the personality of the Dalai Lama.
The Dalai Lama travels around the world and enlightens people in his beliefs seeking support for the respect of human rights in his native Tibet and the whole world. His views have enjoyed extraordinary popularity and determined their preacher as a symbol of wisdom, purity and peace. The Dalai Lama summarized the main life principles and basic steps of living, according to them. The purpose is to make the point of attention to the one notable thing, such as peaceful life, instead of many insignificant ones. His practices are founded on the spiritual beliefs of the Tibetan Buddhism that resulted in the Nobel Peace Prize, while the Chinese authorities accused him in the effort to achieve the separation of Tibet from China. Chinese media depicted the Dalai Lama as a separatist, who wants to overthrow the Chinese rule in the Tibet area. On the contrary, the West always supported him, although did not show the sympathy publicly, because of the fear of raising animosity with China (Buckley & Straight).
Some western media clarify that the Dalai Lama has always come out in favor of full human rights for every person in the world according to the teachings of Buddhism. He also teaches nurturing healthy habits and respectful relations with others in spite of the economic, cultural, racial and religious differences. The Dalai Lama states that one should fight during the attack in a non-violent way. Thus, he declares the non-armed way of the conflict resolution and encourages the use of dialogue and other non-confrontational approaches to disputes. Regardless of all the hostility and public ridicule by the Chinese government, he is still willing to sit down and negotiate with them about the Tibet conflict (Iyer).
Throughout his life, the Dalai Lama has fought for the liberation of Tibet from China. This has earned him considerable criticism from China and Chinese pressure on other countries in dissociating him. China is the biggest opponent and critic of Dalai Lama’s ideas, which has used its economic power to pressurize institutions to denounce him. Chinese state media accused the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists in hiding his true intentions behind the religion. There is also an allegation that the activity of the Dalai Lama against China is financed by Western governments. The article with such accusations was published in English-speaking Chinese edition of China Daily (Jing).
In conclusion, The Dalai Lama 14thpromotes main principles of Buddhism and benefits Tibetans fighting for their rights and freedoms. Western and Chinese media have different opinions about Tibetan issues and personality of The Dalai Lama. Obviously, it is hard to criticize or approve the events which have occurred during Tibetan history. Nevertheless, the Dalai Lama stays as a remarkable personality in the Western modern world, who is respected for the combination of the traditional aspects and values of his native Tibet with present-day conditions and the way of life. This enables him to tackle many world issues and fight for human rights in Tibet at the same time. That is why, despite the time to time controversies on the practicability of some his practices; it goes without saying that he has done a lot of notable things to assist the human race that should be heavily commended.