In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.

Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.

Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so.

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.