Tibetan Buddhism Quotes

The Dali Llama uses religion to intervene in politics.

Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland.

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.

Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom. He's had to live out his principles in the middle of this very complex situation, every day for sixty years or more. I think it's something that moves many people about his example.

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

If the situation was such that there was only one learned lama or genuine practitioner alive, a person whose death would cause the whole of Tibet to lose all hope of keeping its Buddhist way of life, then it is conceivable that in order to protect that one person it might be justified for one or 10 enemies to be eliminated if there was no other way.

Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.

My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage.

I do the same series of five exercises 21 times each day - an ancient Tibetan practice that stimulates your chakras.

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama!

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm more convinced than ever that his political positions as well as his spiritual positions arise out of such precise and realistic thinking that they're extremely sound.

More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.

At the age of eighty, the Dalai Lama has begun to discuss a range of prospects for the future disposition of his soul. Traditionally, after he dies, a search party of senior monks would set out to locate his new incarnation, who is most often a boy toddler, who goes on to be trained as a monk and a leader.

The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism and to Tibet. It's not only because of the Dalai Lama. It's because of what Tibet represents. There is a vast reservoir of knowledge, of mystical knowledge, which can be found in Tibet.The Chinese shouldn't be afraid of that really. They have other means of survival.

My father documented on film for the last time what Tibet looked like before the world got there.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.