When I heard that our bodies change when we get a bit older, I thought, oh good, now I'll go back to being a boy again. But it didn't happen like that.

In the early '60s there was very little reliable information on Tibetan Buddhism. I was living in London and I had joined the Buddhist Society. For the most part, people there were either interested in Theravada or Zen Buddhism. There was almost no one into Tibetan Buddhism at that time.

The future of Dharma is in women's hands now because they have this energy which was never really tapped.

If you see young tulkus when they're with other little monks, it's like in a Broadway show or something where the main character is spotlighted and the others kind of fade into the background. And you think, who is that tulku? Because that's all you see, even though they're all dressed the same and they're all the same age, but it's like the tulku is illumined. They don't look like the other ones.

The dharma is here. And the dharma is in your heart. Where else would it be?

If you take the time to study how to be a doctor and how to use your scalpel and your medicine, then there are endless beings out there to help.

In our endless past lives, we've all done everything, you name it, we've done it. Good, bad, intermediate.