{"id":4877,"date":"2015-06-04T20:28:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2015-06-04T20:28:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:28:46","slug":"dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama biography: “Man of Peace” seeks crowdfunding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The Dalai Lama is the\u00a0subject of a five-part illustrated biography, currently seeking funding. As scholar Robert Thurman describes him:<\/p>\n

\n
The Dalai Lama is the world\u2019s leader of the win-win solution of hte non-violent response to violence. Of non-violent dialogue instead of war. And this is his story. And this is his battle with the great giants of the military industrial complexes of China and other countries. And his battle is a battle of peace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\nSpeaking of the illustrated biography itself, Thurman continues, \u201cThis really tells his story and it shows the extraordinary obstacles he had to overcome, the dangers he has suffered, the odds\u00a0against his struggle for the non-violent liberation of his people,\u00a0his great teaching mission around the world, his exemplifying peace and compassionate solutions even to violence,\u00a0even to genocide, responding with compassion\u00a0for the evildoer as well as the victim.\u201d<\/p>\nWith 11 days remaining, the project has raised nearly $9,000 of its $25,000 goal.<\/p>\n\u00a0To find out more and support Man of Peace: the Illustrated Life Story of the Dalai Lama<\/strong> visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fundly.com\/man-of-peace-the-illustrated-life-story-of-the-dalai-lama\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/fundly.com\/man-of-peace-the-illustrated-life-story-of-the-dalai-lama<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dalai Lama is the\u00a0subject of a five-part illustrated biography, currently seeking funding. As scholar Robert Thurman describes him: The Dalai Lama is the world\u2019s leader of the win-win solution of hte non-violent response to violence. Of non-violent dialogue instead of war. And this is his story. And this is his battle with the great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":4878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buddhism","category-tibetan-buddhism","tag-dalai-lama"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Dalai Lama biography: "Man of Peace" seeks crowdfunding<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Dalai Lama is the\u00a0subject of a five-part illustrated biography, currently seeking funding. As scholar Robert Thurman describes him: The Dalai Lama is\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dalai Lama biography: "Man of Peace" seeks crowdfunding\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Dalai Lama is the\u00a0subject of a five-part illustrated biography, currently seeking funding. As scholar Robert Thurman describes him: The Dalai Lama is\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"American Buddhist Perspectives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-06-04T19:28:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/83\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-graphic-biography.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"422\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Justin Whitaker\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Justin Whitaker\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html\",\"name\":\"Dalai Lama biography: \\\"Man of Peace\\\" seeks crowdfunding\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-06-04T19:28:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-06-04T19:28:46+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/#\/schema\/person\/abfb8f851f671638c4c7536b963f9da9\"},\"description\":\"The Dalai Lama is the\u00a0subject of a five-part illustrated biography, currently seeking funding. As scholar Robert Thurman describes him: The Dalai Lama is\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Dalai Lama biography: “Man of Peace” seeks crowdfunding\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/\",\"name\":\"American Buddhist Perspectives\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/#\/schema\/person\/abfb8f851f671638c4c7536b963f9da9\",\"name\":\"Justin Whitaker\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/817b6fba8ae056aaff4f9bdc84347d72?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/817b6fba8ae056aaff4f9bdc84347d72?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Justin Whitaker\"},\"description\":\"I am an almost-life-long Montanan; a baptized Catholic; an ardent Atheist; a practicing Buddhist; a lover of Wisdom. I have a BA and almost an MA in (Western) Philosophy from the University of Montana-Missoula, an MA in Buddhist Studies from Bristol University, UK, and I am currently working on a Ph.D. in Buddhist Ethics at the U of London. My main academic foci are early Buddhist ethics and Kant (odd combination, I know). I also study Western ethics, Tibetan Buddhism, Theravada, Comparative philosophy, and Environmental ethics. I also like photography, running, drinking wine, and eating peanut butter (often in that order).\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/author\/justinwhitaker\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Dalai Lama biography: \"Man of Peace\" seeks crowdfunding","description":"The Dalai Lama is the\u00a0subject of a five-part illustrated biography, currently seeking funding. As scholar Robert Thurman describes him: The Dalai Lama is","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Dalai Lama biography: \"Man of Peace\" seeks crowdfunding","og_description":"The Dalai Lama is the\u00a0subject of a five-part illustrated biography, currently seeking funding. As scholar Robert Thurman describes him: The Dalai Lama is","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html","og_site_name":"American Buddhist Perspectives","article_published_time":"2015-06-04T19:28:46+00:00","og_image":[{"width":768,"height":422,"url":"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/83\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-graphic-biography.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Justin Whitaker","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Justin Whitaker","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html","name":"Dalai Lama biography: \"Man of Peace\" seeks crowdfunding","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-06-04T19:28:46+00:00","dateModified":"2015-06-04T19:28:46+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/#\/schema\/person\/abfb8f851f671638c4c7536b963f9da9"},"description":"The Dalai Lama is the\u00a0subject of a five-part illustrated biography, currently seeking funding. As scholar Robert Thurman describes him: The Dalai Lama is","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2015\/06\/dalai-lama-biography-man-of-peace-seeks-crowdfunding.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dalai Lama biography: “Man of Peace” seeks crowdfunding"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/","name":"American Buddhist Perspectives","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/#\/schema\/person\/abfb8f851f671638c4c7536b963f9da9","name":"Justin Whitaker","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/817b6fba8ae056aaff4f9bdc84347d72?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/817b6fba8ae056aaff4f9bdc84347d72?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg","caption":"Justin Whitaker"},"description":"I am an almost-life-long Montanan; a baptized Catholic; an ardent Atheist; a practicing Buddhist; a lover of Wisdom. I have a BA and almost an MA in (Western) Philosophy from the University of Montana-Missoula, an MA in Buddhist Studies from Bristol University, UK, and I am currently working on a Ph.D. in Buddhist Ethics at the U of London. My main academic foci are early Buddhist ethics and Kant (odd combination, I know). I also study Western ethics, Tibetan Buddhism, Theravada, Comparative philosophy, and Environmental ethics. I also like photography, running, drinking wine, and eating peanut butter (often in that order).","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/"],"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/author\/justinwhitaker"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}