It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also develop great social awareness.

Our relative being is what rules our relative world.

My mother's love was really not based on attachment. Her love was genuine love. To make me happy, not how I will make her happy.

I've always loved the Sangha. I have the deepest, deepest respect for them. I'm very sorry that in the West people don't appreciate what the monastic order is about.

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

Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path.

When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.