The Dalai Lama

The main purpose of the appearance of a reincarnation is to continue the predecessor’s unfinished work to serve Dharma and – Read More...

It seems the Tibetan custom of applying the epithet Tulku (Buddha’s Emanation Body) to recognised reincarnations began when devotees used – Read More...

My fellow Tibetans, both in and outside Tibet, all those who follow the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and everyone who has – Read More...

No system of government is perfect, but democracy is closest to our essential human nature. It is also the only – Read More...

For thousands of years people have been led to believe that only an authoritarian organisation employing rigid disciplinary methods could – Read More...

These days the environment – the source of life for all beings in the world including Tibet, the Land of – Read More...

Over many decades in China, especially during the Cultural Revolution, when the Four Olds were being destroyed, there was a – Read More...

Most Tibetans are poor when it comes to standards of knowledge. Speaking from the religious point of view, there are – Read More...

According to Buddhist teaching, there is a very close interdependence between the natural environment and the sentient beings living in – Read More...

In Tibet, mountains are often considered the abodes of deities. For example, Amnye Machen, a mountain in northeastern Tibet, is – Read More...