{"id":6030,"date":"2011-06-11T19:53:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T19:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6030"},"modified":"2011-06-11T19:53:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T19:53:23","slug":"the-dalai-lama-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-dalai-lama-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dalai Lama, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Dalai-Lama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Dalai-Lama-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6031\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/Religion\/post\/2011\/06\/dalai-lama-china-marx-communism\/1\">Via <em>USA Today<\/em>: <\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Usually what we hear from the Dalai Lama is an insistant yet soothing voice for compassion and peace. So Tsering Namgyal, a journalist based in Minneapolis, was jolted by the Dalai Lama\u2019s talk to 150 Chinese students this month at the University of Minnesota. Writing at Religion Dispatches, he says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMidway through the conversation, His Holiness, much to their surprise, told them \u2018as far as socio-political beliefs are concerned, I consider myself a Marxist \u2026 But not a Leninist\u2019, he clarified.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I suppose that we should be grateful for the clarification&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via USA Today: Usually what we hear from the Dalai Lama is an insistant yet soothing voice for compassion and peace. So Tsering Namgyal, a journalist based in Minneapolis, was jolted by the Dalai Lama\u2019s talk to 150 Chinese students &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-dalai-lama-again-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[14,15,711],"tags":[545],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6033,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6030\/revisions\/6033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}