there is some kind of buddhism rule. although buddha gives equality for female and male. but when we come together, the monk should be first. even because of the [speaking language]-- >> there is a hierarchy, even though there is an egalitarian opportunity for men and women for ordination. but because of the cultural influence, there is a hierarchy established. so even though the none might be senior, but in terms of hierarchy, the nun would be lower compared to a junior monk. dalai lama: so these things, on some occasion, i suggested maybe now the time come we need some modification or to change like that. so for example, in my own case, the institution [indiscernible] spirituality. now in 2011, i totally retired. and to only myself retired, but also four-century old institution has now ceased voluntarily. happily, probably. i feel these are some influence. some impact on the feudal system. the feudal system outdated so we must catch up to the present reality or time. >> your holiness, you are describing a process of change that is only successful in a more inclusive way

mentioning some positive thing about buddhism. wonderful. in the past, they said a communist system. they supposed to say follow -- atheism. people who really believe atheism, not many principles. that's a fact now. so i think chinese people, including leaders, i think are getting some new experiences. so there is change. there's a tight control, it's that kind of system. no future. so you say only question of time. china have to open. >> they said today through their spokes people under the cloak of religion, the 14th dalai lama peddles his political ambitions of dividing china all around the world. we ask all countries and governments not to give him any room to carry out such campaigns. even less risking arousing the firm opposition of 1.3 billion chinese people. >> we have opportunity to ask 1.3 billion chinese, each, i don't think it's the same view. >> do you follow u.s. politics? >> these days, no. the candidates. argument or criticism like that. >> and what do you think about it? >> sometimes okay. i think american people, i think ha

mentioning some positive thing about buddhism. wonderful.e past, they said a communist system. they supposed to say follow -- atheism. people who really believe atheism, not many principles. that's a fact now. so i think chinese people, including leaders, i think are getting some new experiences. so there is change. there's a tight control, it's that kind of system. no future. so you say only question of time. china have to open. >> they said today through their spokes people under the cloak of religion, the 14th dalai lama peddles his political ambitions of dividing china all around the world. we ask all countries and governments not to give him any room to carry out such campaigns. even less risking arousing the firm opposition of 1.3 billion chinese people. >> we have opportunity to ask 1.3 billion chinese, each, i don't think it's the same view. >> do you follow u.s. politics? >> these days, no. the candidates. argument or criticism like that. >> and what do you think about it? >> sometimes okay. i think american people, i think have sor

made us with all these differences, that means there is some bit of truth whether it is in islam or buddhism christianity or judaism. what he said islam was for the oppressed from he used to say that. we would talk also about africa, of course. .e would talk about his boxing i asked him one time if he considered himself the greatest boxer of all time. the pass wasr as concerned, yes, but he wasn't sure he could beat mike tyson. mike tyson was the murderer in the ring, he called him. >> have they asked mike tyson? tom: i don't think he would've dared answer. we will cross to louisville, kentucky and our correspondent philip crowther standing by for us to apparently we are not crossing over to philip crowther just yet. let me pick up on the points michael was making with you. we talked a lot about what a spiritual man muhammad ali was, and i clearly was a huge part of his persona. >> yeah, and the nation of islam. we cannot forget how controversial the nation of islam was from especially when muhammad ali converted in 1964. it is striking to see photos of malcolm x and muhammad ali. malcolm x.

judaism, buddhism. creator butabout creator. they also, you see, they action. dharma.create good action, good action means helping others. serving others. you get benefit. so, different emphasis but same ofpose, to bring more value compassion. so not a problem. so, sometimes, you see i just not of course, i mean, disrespect. something like supermarket. all religion like supermarket. differentare a lot of religions with different philosophical views. a big subsection for a variety of people. just one religion. like one sort of market. one item. customerle, i think plenty of overriding. then more people come. like that. likeecause of the market the supermarket. religious supermarket. [laughter] dalai lama: different vision. different lists off of use. wonderful. the total aspect is causal aspect. , one example. [indiscernible] -- the fifth century bc, so at that founder come. the decades,er a few buddha come. so at that time, it animals sort of sacrificed. did the it even affect farmers economy. time, the founder of judaism come. so because of the circumstances like that

or black mormonism. -- black buddhism or black mormonism. signal-american religion something more substantive than that, right? it does not refer to a definite kind of experience that is its of religious or religious .onsciousness my aim here is not to secure the unique data's of the category -- status of the category of african-american religion as its own kind. the adjective refers to a relational -- racial context in which religious meetings have been produced and reproduced or a you all all right? alright, i just want to check on you. andhistory of slavery religious dissemination in the night is dates, -- in the united states in the context of slavery , leaving many white denominations to form their own. instinctive --he distinctive interpretation of islam. we can accurately describe certain variants of christianity and islam as african-american and means nothing beyond the rather uninteresting claim that belong toviduals these different religious traditions. of course, african-american institutions can be understood -- it helps to expla

and then i will be interested in buddhism and i will find another ofup with the speech acceptance fromlai lama that inspired me so much. then i went to his teachings. he was the primary inspiration. i went to his teachings in new york. , it'spart of my lifestyle part of my spirituality, and i apply what i learn in a very secular way to people around me and to the family of course. it gives me peace of mind. inbrings tremendous pleasure helping people to find happiness anythingght stress or that is contrary to them. charlie: this book is dedicated to adrian, andre, sondra, and my mother monique. eric: adrian is my son, andre is my father, sondra is my wife. charlie: you're how old when he died? was 10. heart attack hiking in the mountains. charlie: in the mountains. he went to take a picture and he collapsed. charlie: television. on -- already been on. you're going to do a new season? eric: i hope so. charlie: it doesn't get old. air: no. eric: no. i see it as a source of inspiration. i get inspired, come back, and cook something for the viewer and i share my passion. charlie: if you ar

he studied zen buddhism. he moved to calcutta. he was a long way from american politics for a long time. and then he came back to the united states in the early 1990s and he decided, going to run for president again. this time he decided he was going to do it as a revolutionary. he blasted corporate power. he swore off big money. he called his opponents bought and paid for. there was no internet like we know it back then but there were toll-free 800 numbers. jerry brown had one of those too. >> we have an 800 number, we ask people, if you want to join us, call it. wait a minute, don't censor. this is the first amendment, tom. i'm a presidential candidate. let the people -- these airwaves belong to the people. let them judge whether it's appropriate or not, let them join this campaign through the number. 1-800-426-1112. if you want to join, call us. if you think it's inappropriate, then you make that judgment. but that is not for a media outlet to censor the presidential debate. >> jerry brown of 1992 was an angry man. he was angry

this language is important to the faith to buddhism and important to the cult furnish and important to families and again to the education of the children. high any attempts on the part of ands is e and ti bet something would be really wrong, just plain and simple. this morning, his hopiness spoke at the institute of peace. i said you asked me for my blessing and real change comes through action. karma isn't od it, bout faith but taking action and what we believe in and again , every opportunity -- i thank , every l and chair, tom opportunity i get and this is one i treasure on the floor of the house to say what an honor it is to be in the same room, holyness andth the his name is sin none must with erything that is good and we .mphasize to our chinese host and going into another place. in terms of his holyness, it is tomorrow, when he comes to the capitol to the floor to thank him for his leadership, inspiration is an inadequate word of what he is. thank him for sharing the i determination. he was speaking about it today and might take some years. mr. mcgovern, that is a time when the

before it got disenchanted with structured religion and i studied eastern philosophy and studied buddhismand hinduism and taoism meant different things. what i discovered that was the most important for me was that all of these different religious perspectives offer a wealth of wisdom that i was able to apply to my everyday life without feeling that i had to be boxed into one ideology. i spent a lot of time studying theology. it was very interesting to me the way religion emerged in society and the role that it played, the wisdom in all of these books is just incredible. so i just enjoyed the process of studying and learning. >> host: i know a lot of people watching you now will not able to fathom that you took a life but when you think about your journey with redemption, there is the letters he, there's the spirituality. there's also a couple of letters that made a huge difference. but are those letters? >> guest: one of the letters was written to be -- to me by the godmother of the man i killed. she was a really deep woman of faith that she wrote me five or six years into my sentence an

and finally i will choose about tibet and will be interested in buddhism, and i will find another book with the speech of acceptance, of th the nobel prie from the dalai lama that inspired me so much that i bowlgt more books and i went to his teachings. >> rose: he was the primary. he was the primary inspiration. i went to his teachings in new york. i have different teachers. it's part of my lifestyle, part of my spirituality, and i apply what i learn in booed i'm in a very secular way to people around me, and, you know, to the family, of course. >> rose: it gives you peace of gives me peace of mind. it brings tremendous pleasure in me in helping people to find happiness and to fight stress or anything that is contrary to them. >> rose: this is dedicated to adrian, andre, sondra and my mother. >> adrian is my son, andre is my father, sondra is my wife and monique is my mother. >> rose: you were how old when your father died? >> i was ten. he was 42 and i was ten. >> rose: heart attack? heart attack hiking in the mountains. >> rose: in the mountains. in the vast country. his last words

rose: you also suggest and it's fascinating that there are certain prisms you can look through -- buddhism, terrorism, technology. >> all of them are there. so darth vader is -- >> rose: and more. absolutely. christianity is there. freud is very much there. luke skywalker loses his mother and false in love with someone older who says you will always be a little boy to me, from's a freudian eco. there's echo of the christ tale. there is a political theme of republicanism and the word is republic about vigilance against authority and that reading is there. there are crazy readings all over the internet, and though crazy, often ingenious and often lends itself to multiple interpretations. somehow this cartoonish saga is able to have sufficient richness that, like shakespeare or james joyce, you can go a lot of places with it. >> rose: have you talked to j.j. abrams about this? >> i have told him, i put him on notice that there is a book coming, but i think the last thing he needs is to be questioned by a law professor about what his intentions were. so he knows about it, but -- >> rose: and w

. >> reporter: hinduism has deep- and intersecting-roots here with buddhism, whose founder, gautama buddhas born in what today is nepal-- some 2,600 years ago. the rich cultural heritage is also a living one, says christian manhart, of the united nations cultural organization, unesco. >> so it is not just beautiful monuments which are there for tourists but they are used. >> reporter: and that adds more complication to the rebuilding efforts, already slowed by bureaucracy and political instability. it's a clash between western aesthetics and local priorities. >> we don't have this romanticism with historical patina. so this is you know a different way of looking at the monument between a westerner eye and the local people here. >> reporter: rohit ranjitkar heads a non-profit organization called the kathmandu valley preservation trust. he says for most nepalis, these historic sites are first and foremost, places of active worship. >> basically they have the attachment with the god and the place with the religious activities, not with the architecture. you know, for them, whether the temple

i'm seeking of the alliance between india and japan which stretches back to the founding of buddhism.here was protokyo sentiment in india as well. of course, fought shoulder to shoulder with japanese forces against the allies. so, united states has this penchant, this proclivity for getting ensnared in these alliances but not thinking through all of the possible downstream consequences, and then people like us wind up paying the price, and i think that one of the many reasons why we wind up paying the price is because not enough of us are energized, not enough of us are sufficiently informed, and there's this comforting notion, which i'm well aware of since i teach teenagers for a living, that what is obtaining today will be the case tomorrow. i understand that sentiment because it's comforting that allows you to sleep at night, but sadly and tragically, history does not often allow for such a pleasing result. things can change. but let us hope that we will be able to muster the intelligence and their energy to ensure that these dooms day scenarios will never have the opportunity to u

aspect, inl buddhism, i think comparatively the buddha makes certain rules mortar microchip principles- principles.citic with monks, about 100 actions. carriede actions only by a group of monk. no single monk held authority. buddha himself, exception. [laughter] dalai lama: the follower of him, never give authority to one single person. that rules action later. >> there are certain types of rituals that need to be performed across the monastic line, but no single person has the authority to preside over the right. the right has to be performed collectively. dalai lama: it has been too long. that is why you see some now west,eminists from the they want me to give highest ordination for female, for nun. they have the impression i have final authority. and i told them no, i have no authority. only some kind of international monks decide. otherwise you see, [indiscernible] in the of the problem situation with the full ordination for women is one requirement is the senior administrator of the vow has to be a nun herself. because of that difficulty in tibet, the institution of ordination of

because in buddhism, you know, in different religions there are different ways of getting blessings. in judaism, a religious person reads the books over and over again. a muslim memorizes the i quran word for word. but a buddhist is supposed to reproduce books of sermons of buddha. you produce a sutra, and you've earned a blessing. think how many blessings you can earn if you have a printing press. [laughter] >> exactly. we're going through the same -- i work at a newspaper, and we're going through this great technological disruption right now, and everything's going online, and people are buying fewer print newspapers. i don't really think that our lives are changing because of the iphone. i feel like as you were explaining with this technological fallacy, i feel like our desire for more and quicker information has fueled development of things like the iphone. >> yeah. i mean, if you look at the whole history of computers which kind of really goes back for centuries, you know, if you think about the luddites who opposeed the, they opposed these automatic looms, one of the most famou

practice the traditions does not lead us, hist orrans and critics as the like to describe it as black buddhism or black moremanism. it singles out something more substantive than that. this something more doesn't have to be an idea of religion of forces that impinge on the lives of african-american nor does it refer to a definite kind of experience that is itself religious or religious consciousness as distinction of others forms of religiousness. i'm not [ inaudible ]. and the unique status of the category of african-american religion of its own kind. the adjective refers to a racial context within which religious meanings have been produced and reproduced. y'all all right? i just want to check on you. he will defer consideration of how religion has produced particular racial meanings but the history of slavery and racial discrimination birthed religious formations among african-americans. they converted to christianity in the context of slavery and many left predominantly white denominations to perform their own after facing self-determination, some embraced islam to make sense of their cond