NON-CONFESSIONAL ETHICS OF THE 14th DALAI LAMA AS A POSSIBLE WORLD CIVIL RELIGION
The 14th Dalai Lama is the most famous Buddhist in the world, who until recently headed both the secular and religious authorities of the exiled government of Tibet, the initiator of many peacemaking initiatives aimed at overcoming ongoing civilizational contradictions: cultural, ethnic and religious, which generate other forms of identity as a need for ontological and axiological foundations of being in new conditions of existence. The Dalai Lama proposes to go beyond the boundaries of historically established institutional religions and state national formations in order to overcome the existing differences associated with a particular tradition. This goal can be helped by a new rational and universal approach to ethics based on the principle of global responsibility, internal values and the integrity of the individual, which together could help the survival of mankind, make both man and humanity happy. The Dalai Lama suggests using six basic principles in the new ethics: nonviolence, tolerance, acceptance of each religion in its uniqueness, joint work to save the earth (ecology), patience, death and rebirth - which together could become the basis, basic values, of a new civil religion. This civil religion is initially focused not on the sacralization of the nation and the state, the foundation of civil religion according to Robert Bell, but on the etatization of man in the new civilizational conditions of being outside his national, state and religious identification.