{"id":26789,"date":"2015-08-21T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=26789"},"modified":"2015-08-21T16:46:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T20:46:01","slug":"august-21-2015-dalai-lama-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/08\/21\/august-21-2015-dalai-lama-80\/26789\/","title":{"rendered":" The Dalai Lama at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He says he is &#8220;totally retired&#8221; from any political responsibilities as the leader of the exiled Tibetan Buddhist community, but old age has not diminished his role as an active and outspoken advocate for world peace and inner happiness. In an interview at his home base in Dharamsala, India with correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro, the Dalai Lama says all major religions teach the practice of compassion, love, forgiveness, and tolerance, and he\u2019s not sure there is a need for a new Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All major religions teach the practice of compassion, love, forgiveness, and tolerance. If people who really, seriously, sincerely follow their own tradition, then [there will be an] immense effect to bring inner peace, genuine peace.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/08\/21\/august-21-2015-dalai-lama-80\/26789\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":26816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[8963,1382,8,1361,1381,9241],"class_list":["post-26789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-birthdays","tag-buddhism","tag-china","tag-dalai-lama","tag-tibet","tag-tibetan-buddhists","faith-buddhist","spotlight-the-dalai-lama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>August 21, 2015 ~ The Dalai Lama at 80 | August 21, 2015 | Religion &amp; 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