As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.

Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.

One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind.