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I’m a little tired today and won’t write too long. So bear with me…

The other day, when I was lunching with my wife, something came to my mind and I spoke out, causing my wife to laugh out aloud. The ‘something’ is just the title of this piece – ’2008, Dalai Lama.’ When spoken in Chinese, 8 (pronounced as BA) would rhyme with Lama, creating a funny effect.

Indeed, 2008 seems to be doomed to associate with so many things, from Beijing to Washington to Hollywood to Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet and, of course, also Dalai Lama, who earned his Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, a representative of Buddha, the embodiment of peace.

But who is Dalai Lama? Here are a few historical pictures:

Dalai Lama, installation ceremony in 1939

Wu Zhongxin（吴忠信, Chairman of Mongolian and Tibetan Affaires Committee of China who presided over the installation ceremony）and Dalai Lama, 1939

Dalai Lama and Bainqen Lama (left), 1954 Beijing
Dalai Lama was voted Vice-Chairman of National People’s Congress

Zhou Enlai（周恩来），Mao Zedong（毛泽东），Liu Shaoqi（刘少奇）with Dalai Lama and Painqen Lama, 1955

Chen Yi（陈毅）was welcomed in Tibet in 1956

Further resources:

Articles about Tibet.

http://english.gansudaily.com.cn/system/2007/10/08/010486120.shtml
http://www.rense.com/politics2/better.htm

The True Face of the Dalai Lama
(http://kalovski.blog.com/763351/)

The Dalai Lama Controversy
(http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=24612)

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