Rencontre de Jean-Pierre Grandjean avec sa Sainteté le XIVème Dalaï-Lama Tenzin Gyatso. Des moines lui présentent des grands formats de ses photographies, qu’il va faire accrocher dans le nouveau temple de Sera Je, qui vient d’être inauguré en sa présence. Bylakupe, province du Karnataka, Inde, janvier 1998
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Orientation 1
Wall object 27
ABE 017
Code: ABE 017
Country: Inde (Karnataka)
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Date: 1998
Dimensions in cm WxHxD: Unknown
Materials: Tirage noir et blanc
Jean-Pierre Grandjean meets His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso. Monks present him with large prints of his photographs, which were to be hung in the new temple at Sera Je, which had just been inaugurated in his presence. Bylakupe, Karnataka province, India, January 1998
The Dalai Lamas are the most famous lineage of incarnations of Tibetan Buddhism. Considered to be human manifestations of Avalokiteshvara, bodhisattva of compassion, their half-Mongolian, half-Tibetan name dates back to the third incarnation of Sönam Gyatso (1543-1588), who received the title from the Mongol leader Altan Khan. Dalai means ‘ocean, sea’ and lama ‘master’. With Mongol support, the 5th Dalai Lama and the Geluk school to which he belonged came to political power in 1642, a position his successors would hold until the Chinese invasion in the 1950s.
A major religious and political figure, while he possessed an aura and prestige over all Tibetans that made him the spiritual leader of Tibet, it is important to point out that he is not the leader of his own school. Forced into exile in 1959, he did his utmost to preserve Tibetan culture and defend his countrys’ cause. A highly progressive figure, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, and renounced his temporal role in 2011, encouraging the transition to democracy for Tibetans and the separation of religious and political powers.
The Dalai Lamas are the most famous lineage of incarnations of Tibetan Buddhism. Considered to be human manifestations of Avalokiteshvara, bodhisattva of compassion, their half-Mongolian, half-Tibetan name dates back to the third incarnation of Sönam Gyatso (1543-1588), who received the title from the Mongol leader Altan Khan. Dalai means ‘ocean, sea’ and lama ‘master’. With Mongol support, the 5th Dalai Lama and the Geluk school to which he belonged came to political power in 1642, a position his successors would hold until the Chinese invasion in the 1950s.
A major religious and political figure, while he possessed an aura and prestige over all Tibetans that made him the spiritual leader of Tibet, it is important to point out that he is not the leader of his own school. Forced into exile in 1959, he did his utmost to preserve Tibetan culture and defend his countrys’ cause. A highly progressive figure, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, and renounced his temporal role in 2011, encouraging the transition to democracy for Tibetans and the separation of religious and political powers.