{"id":160,"date":"2019-07-08T21:45:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T19:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2025-08-18T00:30:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:30:36","slug":"tibet-o-sa-mor-din-lipsa-de-oxigen-sau-ma-impusca-astia-de-cate-intreb-partea-2-din-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/2019\/07\/tibet-o-sa-mor-din-lipsa-de-oxigen-sau-ma-impusca-astia-de-cate-intreb-partea-2-din-5\/","title":{"rendered":"TIBET (2\/5) \u2013 I will either die because of lack of oxygen or because I ask too many questions…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let me start with Dalai Lama<\/strong>\u2026 A tabu subject in Tibet! There are no photos of any Dalai Lama. There is one exception, a photo in a monastery with the 13th<\/sup> one. Now they have the 14th<\/sup>. The guide asks me whether I have ever seen him. I tell him I saw the Dalai Lama on TV, on the Internet and on the cover of some books. I ask him if I can show him a funny clip on YouTube with Dalai Lama taking a selfie with a young woman. He says with regret: “No, I am afraid !” \ud83d\ude41 He saw Dalai Lama looong ago, that is many, many years ago. He has no idea how he looks like now or what he does. He found out something about an eye operation. And he prayed. The other Tibetans prayed too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I leave the uncomfortable subject and I ask him\nwhy “Dalai Lama”, as I found out after a very long time that this is\na title, not a name. What is strange is that the Dalai Lama title appeared from\nthe third chosen one. The first too had a name followed by “master”.\nThe third was a child from Mongolia. After years of instruction in Tibet, there\nwas a meeting between him and the Mongol king. The king was impressed with the\nsmartness of the young man and of the many things he knew. And so he told him\nhe was an “ocean of wisdom”. That is\u2026 Dalai Lama. And that was his\nname from that moment on. His name and the names of all the others who\nfollowed\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(I will have to read more about this\u2026 As well as\nabout the choosing of the Dalai Lama, as I have heard some things that made me\ncurious)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a very natural dialogue, I tell the guide about a book on Dalai Lama published in Romania, a book that I wanted to buy. I show him the book on Google, on my phone. You cannot imagine the happiness on his face when he saw the cover with the picture of Dalai Lama!!! My God! He was fascinated, overwhelmed, a complete meltdown!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After many minutes of talking about other things, still emotional about it, he tells me that I have made him very happy!!! And he makes me happy too, taking me to visit the Dalai Lama Palace \u2013<\/span> Potala<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n