달라이 라마의 평화사상

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama"s Thought on Peace

  This paper briefly determines His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama"s thought on peace and its implications for promoting peace in the Korean peninsula. In the early 1950s, both South Korea and Tibet were involved in war albeit with different enemies, South Korea with North Korea and Tibet with China. After fifty years, now, the bitter enmity of that time still lingers on in both countries but in different forms. In Korea, South and North still remain hostile enemies each fearing invasion by the other although some efforts are now being to get out of such a hostile relationship. In Tibet, on the other hand, the hostility of the ongoing "war" exhibits interestingly different features. The Tibetan government in exile in India officially considers the Chinese occupants to be "teachers" offering opportunity for "calming the mind and strengthening compassion." In the account of this paper, such an unusual position of the government in exile is due to Dalai Lama"s unique philosophy - the Prasangika philosophy of Buddhism. Dalai Lama has always been a model of inner peace and outer compassion, which are the gist of Sutra and Tantra in Buddhism. In them, cultivating peace within leads to peace in society. Compassion in the mind, therefore, is the pillar of world peace. Implications of Tibetan Buddhism for peace in Korea are inferred in this paper from this point.