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Message: <blockquote data-quote="badcJamiga" data-source="post: 10703442" data-attributes="member: 322236">Richard Gere: My Journey as a Buddhist <img src="http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2858/83177157.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Humanitarian and actor, Richard Gere was born on August 31, 1949, in  Philadelphia. The second of five children, his father, Homer, was an  insurance salesman, and his mother was Doris. American actor Richard Gere (whose real name is Richard Tiffany Gere),  winner of Emmy Awards and Golden Globes, has another identity in the  world of spiritualism, far apart from the rest of the worldly life and  fame. He is a Buddhist. <img src="http://www.japanese-buddhism.com/image-files/richard-gere-and-the-dalai-lama.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Gere,  who was raised by Methodist parents, began his search for the  beauty  of tranquility in 1978 when he was traveling in Nepal with a Brazilian  painter named Sylvia Martins. Since then, he became an active supporter  of his holiness the Dalai Lama who leads religious officials of the  ‘Gelug’ branch of Tibetan Buddhism.   Tibetan Buddhism is composed of four principal schools, namely,  ‘ the  Nyingma (ancient) School’, ‘ the Sakya School ’, ‘ the Kagyu (Oral  Tradition) School’, ‘ the Gelug (Tradition of Virtue, sometimes known as  the 'Yellow Hat') School’. Tsongkhapa is the pioneer of this last born  ‘Gelug’ Tibetan Buddhism school.    After spending around 20 years studying with Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu  and Kadam (Oral Instruction) teachers, the concept of ‘Gelug’ came into  being through the insight of Tsongkhapa in the early fifteenth century.    Gere scores high marks for sincerity of practice of Buddhism and  meditates daily. According to Gere, it helps him set his motivation for  the day. Gere thinks meditation may be the path to overcoming his  narcissism. Therefore, Buddhism has become the opiate of choice for the  U.S. actor.    Gere sets aside at least three-quarters of an hour a day for his  ritual, rising at 4:30 a.m. if necessary because, he says, this  introspective interval ensures him "a relaxed, stress-free life," adding  that "Almost all forms of meditation are a form of looking at the mind.  At the start you are almost amazed how much noise is going on there.  You have no idea how much monkey stuff is going on, how cluttered it is.  You look at that and you're acknowledging what the mind is, you're  taming it, and when you have done that you have learned the power of  concentration."    Richard Gere is a passionate human rights worker in Tibet. He is a  creator of The Gere Foundation. The Gere Foundation, being a small grant  giving organization, awards grants to groups that are dedicated to the  cultural preservation of Tibet and the Tibetan people. The foundation is  also dedicated to provide HIV/AIDS care, to fund research and its  treatment, and to those organizations addressing human rights violations  throughout the world.    Gere is also a co-founder of the Tibet House which was founded with a  vision to share Tibet's practical systems of spiritual mind sciences  and philosophy, its arts of human development, intercultural dialogues,  nonviolence, and peacemaking, with the world by means of innovative  programs in co-operation with educational and cultural institutions.    Gere is acting as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the  International Campaign for Tibet. The International Campaign for Tibet  (ICT) is a private non-profit advocacy group dedicated to promote  democratic freedom and human rights for Tibetans, and to protect the  Tibetan culture and environment. Richard Gere has promoted some publications on Buddhism including ‘<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0861710975?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwjapanesebu-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0861710975" target="_blank">The World of Tibetan Buddhism</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwjapanesebu-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0861710975" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> ’, (His Holiness the Dalai Lama, was the author). He contributed some texts for the book, ‘<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1844007294?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwjapanesebu-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1844007294" target="_blank">We are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples</a> ’. <img src="http://www.japanese-buddhism.com/image-files/buddha-pbs-documentary.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> He has also worked in a documentary with an award-winning filmmaker <a href="http://www.pbs.org/thebuddha/about-david-grubin/" target="_blank">David Grubin.</a> In the documentary ‘<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0033XUHAO?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwjapanesebu-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0033XUHAO" target="_blank">Buddha</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwjapanesebu-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0033XUHAO" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   ’, Richard Gere narrated the story of the Buddha’s life, a journey  especially pertinent to our own bewildering times of violent change,  agitation and spiritual confusedness. It features the work of some of  the world’s greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia  have depicted the Buddha’s life and principles in art that is adorned in  beauty and complexity. Read more: <a href="http://www.japanese-buddhism.com/richard-gere-buddhist.html#ixzz1SudZj7OI" target="_blank">http://www.japanese-buddhism.com</a> </blockquote>

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