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the Dalai, This is Tenzin Giazzo, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, the temporal and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. In 1989 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for championing the cause of peace through nonviolence. It is not uncommon to see the Dalai Lama amidst a throng of well -wishers, consoling those seeking some kind of spiritual solace. But for more than 30 years this holy man has been forced to make his

work political. For the Dalai Lama is confronted with not just a religious conflict but also a geopolitical one, a life and death struggle in which the way of life for an entire people hangs in the balance. As Tibetan situation, very, very serious, they actually, they, there is every danger to, I say, disappear the Tibetan nation with unique culture

because it's a one -way, the large number of Chinese population transfer and secondly the immeasurable human right violation. The Dalai Lama came to New Mexico at the urging of Project Tibet, an advocacy group led by Tibetan refugees in Santa Fe. They sponsored public lectures and arranged meetings between his holiness and political leaders, educators and Native Americans whom the Dalai Lama feels share a common heritage and who have much in common with Tibetans working to maintain their own cultural identity. I think if all of us set there and simply closed our eyes that it could very well be that one of our religious leaders from within our respective communities was talking to us. I think that really is the essence of how close the tribal

leadership almost immediately felt or his holiness. And the underlying message is that the prayers and the blessings of Indian people go with his holiness and the people of Tibet that much like Indian people in this country as we struggle to survive in a manner that we choose self -determination to the fullest extent. The prayers and blessings that the people of Tibet will also have that opportunity to survive in that manner. Protecting and all those things that they cherish and value much in the same way that we do as Indian people. The Dalai Lama opened his press conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico with the same message he makes at press conferences around the world. Tibet needs help. While for Tibetans, the Dalai Lama is their foremost religious teacher. For most people he is known primarily as an advocate

for peace and nonviolence. Yet never far from his message of compassion and universal responsibility is the story of Tibet. Tibet is known as the roof of the world for good reason. It lies huddled in the valleys and plains of the Himalayas mountains the highest range of the world. Bordering India, China and the Soviet Union Tibet's six million people struggle to maintain one of the most ancient cultures on earth, one steeped in Buddhist religion and distinctly unique. Buddhism is essentially kind of religious teaching that emphasizes the transformation of an individual.

All the artifacts and ritual objects reflect religious kind of symbolism to remind that you know human life is as sacred as everything else around and that you must have respect for life and nature and that everything is indigeneated and therefore what you see as a sacred object is only a symbol to remind you that everything else around you is sacred. Therefore you respect, you reveal and you know from that point of view it's a very intense moral and spiritual kind of transformation. It was in this mountain kingdom that tens in Giazzo began his remarkable life. At the age of two he was found by Tibetan Buddhist monks and teachers to be the 14th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, the Bodhisattva of compassion, a blessed one who has come to earth to serve humanity. The Lama

Tibetan means a teacher or religious you know teacher and Dalai Lama is or has been both head of state and religious leader and institution of Dalai Lama goes back to 15th century. You know it's that long and present Dalai Lama is 14th in succession. So he is 14th Dalai Lama. He is the old re -incarnation. There's not a hesitate. One Dalai Lama does and then we discover his re -incarnation. Tens in Giazzo rapidly fulfilled his training in the Tibetan capital of Lasa and at the age of 16 assumed the throne. Yet he was soon to face problems which were threatened the very existence of Tibet. In 1949 the Chinese Red Army on orders to liberate Tibet invaded and soon overwhelmed the almost defenseless mountain kingdom. After nine years of fruitless negotiations and amid

growing concerns for his safety his holiness fled to India followed by 80 ,000 Tibetans. Since that time the Chinese occupation force has devastated Tibet. 6 ,000 monasteries were destroyed. The hold of national culture and national treasures were obliterated. There are in the four decades since that period of 1949 some 1 million plus people that have been killed. There are people who are in prison tortured. The largest gulag in the world was built there during the early period, doing Mao's period to house 10 million people. It's a place that is crying out for some kind of compassion for the rest of the world community. Today reports indicate that Chinese atrocities continue. Tibetan women are subjected to mandatory sterilization and forced abortions. Religious persecution continues and so many Chinese have immigrated to Tibet that they now outnumber the Tibetans themselves. Currently about 110 ,000 Tibetans

struggle to preserve their culture in exile. Meanwhile world government stand idle. Most have not supported Tibet by putting political pressure on China. In the United States the Bush administration continues to support most favored nation trading status for China despite ongoing atrocities in Tibet and despite the Tiananmen Square incident in 1990. It is this opinion that the China is a little bit overcocious. I think you see the Chinese will appreciate a vaccination persistent for moral principle or more honest way. I think Chinese people will appreciate it. 87 and 88 I made two proposals. Then more detail one that was the second proposal. In it

I did not ask Chinese government that it's a complete separation. I accepted the present reality, the present situation, with that proposal actually I made in the spirit of the constellation. I know you see many Tibetan will disappoint it but in spite that I made that that proposal. However they last almost two years now. Over two years, yes. Over two years no serious response from the Chinese government. So now that's the situation. So my my side I try my best to find some solution to mutual understanding, to dialogue, to negotiation but that failed.

So now my I say only I say hope is world community. So I have to I mean I have to say appeal world community. Please don't forget the roof of the world. He's a man that lives in India and yet where he's from is in Tibet. He's a man that left the country with 100 to 130 ,000 refugees to try to establish a government in exile, a spiritual government that can still take into account the welfare of six million people left back in Tibet. He's a man that has to deal daily in his heart as a person who feels the suffering of his own people and probably the people of the whole earth. See we are the same human being. In spite it's a culture or religion

or race or it's even if it's a continent it's a differences but these are secondary. Basically we are same human being. We are members of one big human family and are in an experience and it's a desire for happiness and desire for overcome pains and sorrow. That also same. Now what is purpose of our life? I believe happiness, joy. That's our purpose of our life. The reason is quite clear. They are I think very existence of daily life. I think based on hope. If someone who

completely lost hope then the very existence become questionable. So therefore I think that this is hope, betterment or better future, better next day. This is that kind of feeling I think that lead our whole life. So therefore I think the purpose of our life we can say happiness. You say I think genuine or natural human desire. You say you say one piece, one you say friendly atmosphere. So therefore you see war is something actually humanity do not want. However if you look human history the war is something part of

human history, part of human life. However because of much change I'm certain senses. Now I think today the older I think the name or the word war is same but meaning is much different than the previous war. You say the war today due to technology. You say the destructive power is immense. So you say not only the human suffering. You say the thousands, thousands of human suffering but also you see there a lot of destruction environment. And also actually you say war is so much expansive. The

war can be looked at as limited to the battlefield. But if you look at war as the sanctioned aggression against the force of life, if you look at war as ordinary daily living, the price we pay for that sanctioned aggression, then you can see that intrinsic to our way of life is war. The Hopis have a word for this. I think they call it Nakoi Katsi, war life, of deliberately involving yourself in a violence towards the force of life itself. I think this is the war that the Dalai Lama speaks. One must be non -violent in all of their relations, even to those that hurt you, even to those that are your enemy, even to those that kill your beloved. Jesus said the same thing. Now, another, I think,

a new problem, which in the past, I think, never become serious. That is ecological problem, the environment problem. They are a kind of problem which cannot solve by one or one or two individual nations, unless you say the effort made by internationally is difficult. And also, I think the modern, I think, due to the modern technology and some other, I think, communications, you see, transportations, these things highly, you see, efficient, efficient. So, I think the modern economy, the structure also something new is beyond national boundaries. So, therefore, in such circumstances,

I feel it is very essential, you see, to have the sense of universe's responsibility. How to develop genuine sense of, I would say, global responsibility. Here, I think, we need the will and, yes, I think, will build strong determination. How to build determination or unshakable determination? They, I think, combination, intelligence and human good heart, these two things combined. Then, the genuine determination, not something blind one, but determination with wisdom, that can develop. So, therefore, the good heart, warm heart.

Yes, I believe, this is something the basis for humanity. Without that, then I think questionable, whether you say the future generation or humanity really survive. So, as a part of this whole vast cosmos, you are a part of this, everything. So, therefore, you have a role to duty, to, to think of your fellow beings and respect lives, and, you know, preserve the ecology and environment. And that's the

primary kind of percept. That's why Tibetans already accepted the vow of non -violence as a part of their behavior. Buddhism, as a political event, was established in reaction to the warlords, to the empires that existed throughout the period of history, as a non -violent, monk response of approaching rather than approaching people through fear, through hatred, through domination, through the force of army, through the myth of the art of war, and the hero warrior approaching people more through compassion, through peace, through gentleness, through tranquility, not just platitudes, but things that are going to allow us to recognize the humaneness that we possess. To be born into the human race does not mean that we're human. The Dalai Lama is trying to instruct us with his,

with his smile of being, with his entity, that human beings can have this kind of peace if they can realize that it's an internal thing that they have to deal with. In order to achieve genuine peace, the peace must come through mental peace. So, without inner peace, the genuine world peace is very difficult to achieve. So, it is almost impossible, you see, expecting some genuine peace, while inner world remains as a full of hatred, full of anger. So, therefore, the genuine, a proper path

to world peace, of world peace is the compassion. What is the meaning of compassion? Compassion, not something like, or say, the feeling of pitiness, or something attachment, not that kind. You see, although both cases there is feeling of the closeness feeling, some kind of this, closeness feeling. But compassion is more than that. Not only feeling of closeness, but also, you see, there is the awareness, or the sense of responsibility. So, someone, you know, who suffer, someone who are suffering, then the feeling that that person also, just like myself,

do not want to suffer, and want happiness, and have every right to be happy, to overcome suffering. So, from that awareness, or that understanding, or realization, then you see, the feeling of some concern, or closeness feeling toward that person, with sense of responsibility, that is genuine compassion. My use is one, I, one, one, or the principle belief is non -violence. Now, again here, what is the meaning of non -violence? Non -violence is, I think it is a two -level, one -level non -violence simply is a restrained humming, humming to other. Then the deeper meaning of non -violence is not mere absence of humming, but something positive, you see, serving, helping.

That is non -violence. You know, you see, compassion, or good heart, develop inner strength. Once you develop inner strength, the self -confidence will, say, will come, or will increase, and fear, fear will go. So, with self -confidence and with open mind it, with the flexible attitude, with that, these mental, I think, quality is almost like a guarantee for better future, for success future. He sees connection between different situation and larger world, because, as I said earlier, for us, everything is interrelated. We are

part of the large humanity. And this is connection with what Tibetans do and think. If we are non -violent, if we still inspire all these terrible things happen to us for the past 30, 40 years, we still continue to be non -violent and still stick with our own, you know, kind of standard to behavior and concern for inwardly else. He thinks we have something to contribute to humanity. Tibet becomes, for me, a metaphor for the world. The world has experienced the complete materialization of all value, and Tibet stands in diametric opposition to that experience. Tibet is asking for the spiritualization of values upon which peace is premised. Things are not easy. It's a human life, not easy. That's that's fact. That's reality. And our future also may not be easy. Basically,

basically, basically, we should realize the ultimate answer for brighter future is not. It is with his smile of being that the Dalai Lama pursues his goal of peace for Tibet, peace for all people, peace for the planet. So he continues his quest, pleading with all who will listen to seek the good will, intelligence, and open heart he believes will lead to the strength and determination to make this world a better place. Partial funding for the production of

Golores is provided by the Metropolitan Life Foundation, and the New Mexico Arts Division.