The very idea of the “best religion” is very foreign to a Buddhist way of thought. Humility is not just a Christian virtue. His statement reflects an admirable level of humility.
“The very idea of the “best religion” is very foreign to a Buddhist way of thought. Humility is not just a Christian virtue. His statement reflects an admirable level of humility.
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It would be mush-headed stupidity and an abandonment of all He believed if Jesus said it. I cannot imagine why the Dali Lhama does not believe with all of his heart in the religion he heads but it is hard to say that he hasn’t just indicated his own sense of the value of it.
“His statement reflects an admirable level of humility.”
Interesting. I read a very crafty political speech by a man who thinks he should be laying the groundwork for a war between India and China (way down the line) over the freedom of Tibet. Humility is the required pose of the conquered country working to ingratiate itself with the free and increasingly powerful country. Especially to Indians. One never says anything too directly in India. And, humility on the subject of “best religion” was probably necessary in the circumstances; because his audience was probably predominantly Hindu and he wants their help.
He may be a very nice man. But read the speech again. It is all about how India is Tibet’s “father” and about Tibet’s enslavement by the India’s “senior student” China. Humility has nothing to do with it. And I’m quite certain the Indian audience understood exactly what he was saying.