Dalai Lama Quotes
Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.
Dalai Lama. Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama. HarperCollins, 1990.
See Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland for a similar view.
These three principles not only were the philosophical and political lynchpins of the Chinese Republican efforts but were incorporated into the first line of the national anthem of the Republic of China which became the government of Taiwan when the Chinese Communists won the mainland and the rest of China. The nationalists only delivered one of the three: Nationalism and that with much corruption. The Communists delivered two with less corruption and thus won China.
Dalai Lama (UK: /ˈdælaɪ ˈlɑːmə/, US: /ˈdɑːlaɪ ˈlɑːmə/; Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Wylie: Tā la'i bla ma [táːlɛː láma]) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest of the classical schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso, who lives as a refugee in India. The Dalai Lama is also considered to be the successor in a line of tulkus who are believed to be incarnations of Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.
