I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is liberation in the Buddhist sense, which is freedom from ignorance and freedom from suffering.
I've tended to lean more toward the Dalai Lama and people like Russell Means who have been my political and spiritual North Stars, but I certainly regard Nelson Mandela with great respect and humility.
I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.
The Dalai Lama should not be partisan either, should remain above.
In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission.
The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.
I'm human here, people. I'm not the Dalai Lama. But I'm trying.
If I prayed as much as I pluck, I'd be the Dalai Lama.
Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama!
Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes. '
The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others.
If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work.
A female Dalai Lama must be very attractive, otherwise not much use.
The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong.
Are there any celebs I'd like to meet? I'd love to meet the Dalai Lama.
I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.
Dalai Lama's got nothing on me.
The Dalai Lama says that when a Catholic and a Buddhist speak, the Buddhist becomes a deeper Buddhist and the Catholic becomes a deeper Catholic.
I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.