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Learn node: The 14th Dalai Lama

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DalailamaThis learn node begins with the official website of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet which provides detailed background, describes current events and is a platform for the writing and thinking of this leader. This website is an example of a new kind of biography made possible by the Internet: an open presentation by a person of him or herself. Clearly, this type of biography cannot be expected to be unbiased, but it offers new direct intimacy with the personal views of its subject.

Other excellent Internet biography is openly available online for the Dalai Lama. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, and like all winners his biography is posted on Nobelprize.org which is the website of the Nobel Foundation. The Dalai Lama’s Peace Prize acceptance speech is also available at Nobelprize.org. A Library of Congress exhibit about the Dalai Lama’s visit to Washington in October 2007 has more about him, and offers a list of selected links to further materials.

Here, also, is a video posted on YouTube.com in December 2007 where His Holiness answers a question about technological change.



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