His Holiness Dalai Lama visit to Estonia

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate
His Holiness XIV-th Dalai-Lama Tenzin Gyatso is visiting Estonia in 16.-18. August 2011

His Holiness has previously visited Estonia in 1991, 2001

During this visit His Holiness Dalai Lama have also an audience for members of the Estonian Institute of Buddhism, members of various Estonian buddhist centres and Tibetan culture related institutes and Tibet supporters.

His Holiness Dalai Lama have meeting with members of the Estonian Parliamentary Group for Tibet and other members of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) and also with Parliamentary supporters from Latvia and Lithuania.

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Live webcast of His Holiness Dalai Lama's public talk "A Call for Universal Responsibilty"
on August 17th 2011 14:10-15:30 (Estonian time) at the Tallinn Liberty Square.

http://www.err.ee/vestlused/

or
(http://www.err.ee/sisu.aspx?s=41&a=432)

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Live webcast of His Holiness Dalai Lama's meeting at the Estonian Academy of Sciences
''Buddhism and Science''

on August 17th 2011 14:10-15:30 (Estonian time)

http://www.videoteam.ee/dl/

(official corrected information about live webcast will be available soon)

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Other events connected to His Holiness visit to Estonia
http://www.dalailama.ee/in-english/

(regularly updated)

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His Holiness XIV-th Dalai Lama books in Estonian

Vabadus paguluses: XIV Dalai-Laama Tendzin Gjatso autobiograafia, Tema Pühadus Dalai-Laama, inglise keelest tõlkinud Kai Vassiljeva, 240 lk, Elmatar 1999.

Kunst olla õnnelik: Elamisõpetus, Cutler, Howard C. ja Tema Pühadus Dalai-laama, inglise keelest tõlkinud Mae Hallistvee, 278 lk, K-Kirjastus 2000.

Iidne tarkus, moodne maailm: Uue aastatuhande eetika, Tema Pühadus Dalai-laama, inglise keelest tõlkinud Kai Vassiljeva, 144 lk, Elmatar 2001.

Avali süda: Kaastunne igapäevaelus, Tema Pühadus Dalai-laama, koostanud Nicholas Vreeland, inglise keelest tõlkinud Häli Kummel, 199 lk, Pegasus 2003, 2008.

XIV dalai-laama tarkuseõpetused, Matthew E. Bunson, inglise keelest tõlkinud Aime Kons, 267 lk, Pegasus 2004.

Kunst olla tööl õnnelik, Howard C. Cutler ja Tema Pühadus Dalai-laama, inglise keelest tõlkinud Kai Vassiljeva, 247 lk, Pegasus 2005.

Kuidas anda elule mõte, Tema Pühadus Dalai-laama, koostanud Jeffrey Hopkins, inglise keelest tõlkinud Teet Toome, 176 lk, Tänapäev 2005.

Tervendavad emotsioonid: Vestlused Dalai-Laamaga emotsioonidest, meelest ja tervisest, Tema Pühadus Dalai-laama, koostanud Daniel Goleman, inglise keelest tõlkinud Aime Kons, 304 lk, Pegasus 2006.

Tema Pühadus Dalai-Laama: Elulugu intervjuudes, Gerald S. Strober ja Deborah Hart Strober, inglise keelest tõlkinud Henn Käämbre, 300 lk, Pegasus 2007.

Kuidas näha enda tõelist olemust, Tema Pühadus Dalai-laama, koostanud Jeffrey Hopkins, inglise keelest tõlkinud Lauri Liiders, 240 lk, Tänapäev 2008.

Juhi tee, Laurens van den Muyzenberg ja Tema Pühadus dalai-laama, inglise keelest tõlkinud Mario Pulver, 224 lk, Tänapäev 2009.

Virgumine, Tema Pühadus dalai-laama, koostanud Jeffrey Hopkins, inglise keelest tõlkinud Ehte Puhang, 312 lk, Tänapäev 2010.

Hävitavad emotsioonid: teadlaste vestlus dalai-laamaga, Tema Pühadus dalai-laama, koostanud Daniel Goleman, inglise keelest tõlkinud Giia Weigel, 432 lk, Pegasus 2011.

VI-th Dalai Lama book in Estonian

Nukrad armastuslaulud, Tsangjang Gjatso, tiibeti keelest tõlkinud Linnart Mäll, 110 lk, Lux Orientis 2006.

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Linnart Mäll (7 June 1938 – 14 February 2010)

Born in Tallinn, Estonia, Dr. Mäll graduated from the Tartu State University in 1962 with a major in general history. He followed graduation with postgraduate studies at the Institute for Oriental Studies at the Academy of Sciences of USSR (1964-1966) and Department of History, Tartu State University (1966-1969); 1985 Cand. Hist. (Ph.D.) in history, Ph.D. thesis "Ashtasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā as a Historical Source". Dr. Mäll died of cancer in Tartu, 2010.14.02.

His main research fields included: Buddhist Mahāyāna texts, Buddhist mythology, classical Indian literature and culture, classical Chinese texts, Tibetan Buddhist texts and the history and rights of small nations and peoples.

He was one of the first who applied the methods of semiotic analysis for investigation of Buddhist texts and other texts of classical Oriental thought. Mäll was one of the central figures of the branch of oriental studies in the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics in 1960-70s. In the 1990s Mäll worked on the elaboration of the conception of humanistic base texts. Since 1994 he has been the Head of the Centre for Oriental Studies, at the University of Tartu. He later served as head of the Laboratory for Oriental Studies (1991-1994). In 1998 he expanded his work on humanistic based texts and he was the initiator and head of the research project "Humanistic base texts in the history of mankind". Mäll was also an author of ten books and over one hundred academic articles on the subject.

Mäll was inspired to become a Buddhist and buddhologist by well-known Estonian theologian and philosopher Uku Masing in the early 1960s. He later studied under and worked together with several Buddhist and non-Buddhist teachers and scholars including Nikolai Konrad, Alexander Piatigorsky, Oktiabrina Volkova, Youri Parfionovich, Lev Menshikov and Lama Bidia Dandaron. He was a teacher and spiritual master for many Estonian buddhists and orientalists. In the 1990s he established close ties with His Holiness The Dalai Lama and served as the main organizer of both of the visits of His Holiness in Estonia (1991 and 2001).

Mäll was the founder and president of the Mahāyāna Institute (from 1991-1994, in Tartu), and president of the Estonian Buddhist Institute (from 2002 in Tallinn).

He was awarded the Order of the White Star, IV degree in 2001 and other awards.

Academic Associations

His membership in the academic associations is as follows:

• Estonian Oriental Society, founder and president in 1988-2001, since 2001 honorary president;
• President of the Estonian Institute of Buddhism
• American Oriental Society;
• Learned Estonian Society;
• Academic Baltic-German Cultural Society in Tartu;
• Academic Historical Society;
• Estonian Writers' Association
• Estonian Tibetan Cultural Society, honorary member.

Other Groups

• Dr. Mäll was one of the founders and first chairman of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, 1991-1993;
• Member of the Estonian Congress and Estonian Council, 1990-1992;
• member of the Estonian Constitutional Assembly, 1991-1992;
• Vice Chairman of the Estonian National Independence Party, 1992-1994;
• founder and president of the Estonian Paneuropean Union since 1992.
  
  
  

Statement of President of the Republic of Estonia
http://www.president.ee/en/media/press_releases.php?gid=134334

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