If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.

We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.

If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.