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The Dalai Lama opened a 10-day visit to Italy on Thursday with few official meetings on his schedule. “No audience is planned”. Nobody received an official, written statement of a meeting. So Pope Benedict did not meet Dalai Lama. Neither Italian President or the Italian Foreign Minister.
Beijing’s communist government responded early in November by saying such a meeting would “hurt the feelings of the Chinese people” and urged the Pontiff to take action showing he “is sincere in improving relations” .
The Dalai Lama’s recent meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President George W. Bush drew strong rebukes from Beijing, which claims he wants to split Tibet from China. The Dalai Lama insists he only seeks autonomy for Tibet, which China has occupied since 1951.
Among his activities in Milan are a ceremony for Nobel Peace Prize winners hosted by the Milan mayor. Meanwhile he met Giuseppe Piero Grillo, better known as Beppe Grillo (born July 21, 1948), an Italian comedian and blogger. His performances as much his posts are characterized by an realistic level of political satire.
On 26 July 2007 Grillo was permitted to speak to the members of the European Parliament in Brussels, where he drew attention to the dangerous, negative state of current Italian politics. He also promoted the so called V-Day (8 September 2007).
The V-Day, which was supported in more than 170 Italian cities as well as abroad, was organised by Grillo to persuade Italians to sign a petition calling for the introduction of a Bill of Popular Initiative to remove members of the Italian Parliament who have criminal convictions of any kind from their office. And gradually expands public awareness over the general situation.
Religious and political leader of the Tibetan people Dalai Lama’s is due in Rome next week. His favorite verse comes from eighth century Buddhist saint Shantideva
For as long as space endures
And for as long as living beings remain,
Until then may I too abide
To dispel the misery of the world.
This is a video made in 1938 showing the Great yoga teacher demonstrating asana and pranyama. He was the teacher of BKS Iyengar and Sri K. Pattahbi Jois, founder the Astanga style of yoga. The film is so old that any claim to copyright has expired
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Ilari Valbonesi @ December 7, 2007