Tibetan Buddhism. Politics, Power, and the Birth of the Dalai Lama

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Indian Buddhism transformed Tibet from a feudal society to an egalitarian culture that valued learning and religion-but not without a fierce and protracted struggle between vying monasteries. In this program, Dr. Robert Thurman, Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University; Michael Harris Goodman, biographer of the 14th Dalai Lama; and historian Dr. Shagdaryn Bira examine Tibetan Buddhism, the Lhasa/Shigatse power struggle and intervention by Genghis Khan, subsequent Tibetan alliances with Kublai and Altan Khan to contain Chinese political aspirations, and the institution of the Dalai Lama.

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45 min

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[2013], c1999

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