Tibetans Quotes

#1. The person who is tormenting the Tibetans feels they have to get rid of the Tibetans in order to be happy.

Robert Thurman

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

Dalai Lama

#3. Because my main concern is the Tibetan Buddhist culture, not just political independence, I cannot seek self-rule for central Tibet and exclude the 4 million Tibetans in our two eastern provinces of Amdo and Kham.

Dalai Lama

#4. Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

Richard Gere

#5. A young Tibetan child touches his head to the floor before the altar and recites a prayer, and I am led to a moment of contentment. This too is part of our struggle as Tibetans: to remind our children and ourselves that we are Tibetan.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#6. In some respects I have been the most unlucky because I have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country than I have spent in Tibet. On the other hand, it has been very rewarding for me to live in a democracy and to learn about the world in a way that we Tibetans had never known before.

Dalai Lama

#7. China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

Dalai Lama

#8. Dalai Lama when he tells us, "Tibetans have a saying: If bad news comes, you listen here (points to the right ear) and let it out here (points to the left ear).

Dina Colman

#9. The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit.

Robin Williams

#10. What sets Tibetan Buddhism apart from other Buddhist traditions - such as the Zen Buddhism of Japan or the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka - is that while Tibetans aim to become enlightened, they don't want to enter Nirvana.

Scott Carney

#11. The preservation of Buddhism is preserving your own internal heart. If Tibetans became terrorists they might win back Tibet, but Buddhism would be destroyed by that attitude.

Rodger Kamenetz

#12. Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.

Barbara Demick

#13. He [Dalai Lama] feels, and I feel, and everyone feels the suffering and frustration of the Tibetans who long for action, who long for a militant response. But, in some ways very few of those individuals have ever been in the position of being head of state.

Pico Iyer

#14. [The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that.

Pico Iyer

#15. What has since happened in Tibet is hardly to be believed. More than 1.2 million Tibetans lost their lives and of about six thousand monasteries, temples, and shrines, 99 percent were either looted or totally destroyed. In

Heinrich Harrer

#16. as we Tibetans lived quite happily for many centuries behind our wall of mountains - the

Dalai Lama XIV

#17. Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.

Dalai Lama

#18. It sounds romantic finding the meaning of life in Tibet, but enlightenment in Tibet is for Tibetans! The meaning of life for most of us is probably in the suburbs.

Andrew Matthews

#19. Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Dalai Lama

#20. Enlightenment occurs when your mind merges with nirvana, with what Tibetans call the Dharmakaya, the clear light of reality, which is the highest plane of transcendental wisdom and perfect understanding.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

Bertrand Russell

#22. Spiritually, yes, now many people knows Tibetans in spiritual field are very, very advanced but in material field is very, very backward.

Dalai Lama

#23. When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

Pico Iyer

#24. The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance - are the Uighurs and Tibetans. In these two groups, the Han Chinese come face to face with difference.

Martin Jacques

#25. In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.

Frederick Lenz

#26. For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise.

Dalai Lama

#27. As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the same. And as he pointed out during the recent disturbances, the Chinese are suffering under a tough government much as the Tibetans are.

Pico Iyer

#28. Decades of destruction, suppression, genocide, sterilization, and political indoctrination could not break the Tibetans' will for freedom, or their deep-rooted religious beliefs. On

Heinrich Harrer

#29. My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

George Woodcock

#30. As we love truly and deeply, we see the white light of truth in them. Seeing this reminds us that the same light exists within us too - As the Tibetans say: "Recognition is liberation."

Frederick Lenz

#31. Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.

Dalai Lama