@ NYcartist,

        Dans mon langue, it is dignité, I have some problems with my linguistigue of the Anglo- Saxson language, plain speaking some times I make a mess of it, but in spite of this I like to give my opinion, but on the other hand it is the contents who counts, futher more its not polite and civil and goes for snobbery to cut short as a passingby in boastful talk.

Avec mon sentiment distinqués.

The Dalai Lama is also bankrolled by the U.S. taxpayers.

Is there a transcript anyplace?

@ Perry Lawrence,

          He has given poor run down people dignety, just simple dignety.

          Hé take some hay Perry

I’m not suggesting that the Dalai Lama is a bad man, or that his messages on human rights should be set aside. What I am saying is that I’m no more enamored of claims of reincarnation and spiritual maturity overcoming the state/church divide than I am of the role of the mullahs in some muslim states. I don’t live in a christian state, I live in a ‘liberal democratic’ [sic] state.

BTW, in respect of the ‘supreme purpose of human life is to learn empathy’, Brecht’s comment on the role of art might be appropriate: “Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” Empathy is all well and good, but unless you are using that empathy to do something to change the nasty situations that you feel empathy for, empathy can be a form of self indulgence. By this yardstick, the Dalai Lama should be admired. He is out there, trying to shape opinion and change the world. I just don’t want him, or any other religious leader, having state power or a statutory place of power in a state.

My man, Go Lama.
The best of the best.
The supreme purpose of human life is to learn empathy for other life and he shows us how to do it.

We all know that between our birth and dead there are all kinds of religious birdens, so as Boedisme, and others, but ! this theocratic leader as the Dali Lama is so very wise, and this wisdom is build on a broad humanistic base, I chould like to see more of this so called theocrates leading us instead of the people who are leading us with their unwisdom and lies and deceit.

salutation and eternal love from the stars.

Dalai lama fighting for human right from many years.Ha is honest thats why he is in this position

JohnW, I think there is a little bit more to the story of Tibet than theocracy. Dig
into the story for very different perspective that has a lot to offer.

Not to take away from the support for human rights that the Dalai Lama generates, and definitely speaking in support for autonomy of the Tibetan people, I still find myself unable to separate myself from the thought that here is the exiled ruler of what was a theocratic state. Maybe it’s just me, but that gets in the way of the message.