I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes.

I really don't know what I could teach and don't really plan to teach.

The point with Buddhism is that it doesn't just tell you to be good, it tells you how. It doesn't just say, "Don't be angry," it shows us the methods to help us not to be angry. It gives techniques for everything that it advises us to cultivate, and all the negative qualities we need to overcome and transform.

Tibetans - at least traditionally - are so totally permeated with the dharma that they don't see any difference between dharma and everyday life, really. And therefore they enjoy it because they don't make a separation.

This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.

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

What I like about Tibetan Buddhism is it was taken to Tibet in the 7th century and then again in the 11th. It has everything that had been collected in India up until that time. And so on all levels, it's so vast.