Spiritual Philosophy: Dalai Lama

Chinese Forces Dept: Yet his past is as distinguished as his tall and friendly bearing. Some of it is on display in his condo overlooking Rosedale s ravine, including evidence of his long, close friendship with the Dalai Lama. In his kitchen hangs a silk tanka with the image of Buddha a gift from Tibet s spiritual leader. In his living room are pictures of them together, according to The Star. The bond began in the late 1960s. George helped save hundreds of volumes of sacred texts spirited out of Tibet in 1959, when the Dalai Lama fled to India after a failed uprising against Chinese forces. Written on ola leaves, the text were rotting in India s heat and dampness. George led the effort to copy them on microfilm and as a practitioner of the Gurdjieff Work, a spiritual philosophy that stresses awareness of the here and now, James George isn t one to wallow in nostalgia, even at the age of 92. He remains a man of action, recently publishing a new book warning of a collective sleepwalk to ecological catastrophe. This picture I took in 1967 when I first knew him. I was High Commissioner in Delhi at the time, George says. And this was him pulling my beard when he came to Toronto in 91. As reported in the news.
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