1st Edition

The 14th Dalai Lama Peacekeeping and Universal Responsibility

By Mario I. Aguilar Copyright 2021
106 Pages
by Routledge India

106 Pages
by Routledge India

106 Pages
by Routledge India

This book outlines the life of spiritual diplomacy of the 14th Dalai Lama and his emergence as a global peace icon. It traces his evolution as a Tibetan Buddhist monk rooted in the Geluk tradition, as a Nobel laureate, and as an internationally recognized peacemaker. The volume brings to the fore the Dalai Lama’s monastic life grounded in the compassion and ethical responsibility of a... Read more
Introduction: the 14th Dalai Lama as peacekeeper 1. Becoming the 14th Dalai Lama 2. The Bodhisattva as peacekeeper 3. Exile and external peacebuilding 4. Towards universal responsibility 5. Non-violence and world teachings

Biography

Mario I. Aguilar is Professor of Religion and Politics at the School of Divinity, St Mary's College, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom. A few of his recent publications include Church, Liberation and World Religions: Towards a ChristianBuddhist Dialogue (2012), Pope Francis: His Life and Thought (2014), Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves, and Sacred Rivers: ChristianHindu Monastic Dialogue in India 1950–1993 (2016), The Way of the Hermit: Interfaith Encounters in Silence and Prayer (2017), and Interreligious Dialogue and the Partition of India: Hindus and Muslims in Dialogue about Violence and Forced Migration (2018). His research interests include the study of religion; religion in the contemporary world; theology in Latin America and Africa; contextual theology; biblical studies and anthropology; Islam in Africa; the history of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism; Christian–Buddhist dialogue; Hinduism, particularly monasticism in India; Christian–Hindu dialogue; and Hindu texts.