How is the day the Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama - the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people - a common name for all that is associated with calmness, wisdom and kindness. However, the Dalai Lama - a title, and the one who wears it is the same person, just like any other. We decided to find out how to construct a day one of the main representatives of Buddhism.

In the book The Open Roadwriter Pico Iyer explains how the Dalai Lama XIV begins each day:

At nine in the morning, the Dalai Lama has ended his four-hour meditation. Getting up at 4:30, the first thing he spent four hours praying and thinking about what he could do for his people.

Pico Iyer

This meditation is for the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist means of understanding the world. With it, they examine the laws of the universe and trying to understand what happened to them can and can not do. To Ayer, who spent the Tibetan leader a long time, it was a test to understand its culture. He describes it as a "spiritual doctor" - so, according to him, the easiest way to understand what is the Dalai Lama.

After meditation, the Dalai Lama has taken for reading and watching the news. Trying to keep the information diet, he listens to only a select few programs in order to keep abreast of the latest developments: BBC East Asian broadcast, Voice of America. Reads mainly The Times and Newsweek.

"In the Internet era - writes Iyer - anyone who wants to get our attention, trying to tell a compelling story, often providing its fictional details. Well, if this is so, there is another way - when the story is fictional, from beginning to end. "

The Dalai Lama also goes the other way around:

The Dalai Lama comes and says to each of us, it's real. This is real, like his country. It can also be illness, grief and unhappiness. He does not think good of Tibetans and the Chinese poor, and those naming and other potentially good.

After breakfast (porridge, tsampa and tea) it reads. Most often, the Buddhist scriptures and books. Then comes the time of reception, and from 12:30 to 15:30 Dalai Lama talks to the people who come to him. It is worth noting that official website Dalai Lama XIV said about how little he eats. Apart from the breakfast and lunch, the only mention of the food - it's tea at five o'clock. A few more hours paid to various interviews, and after 17:00 it is sent to the evening prayer, and by seven in the evening leaves the pitch.