Dalai Lama Quotes
Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures,
and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together.
Dalai Lama. The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace. HarperCollins, 1997.
Later in his life Auden was upset with the last line and insisted that his 1955 publisher replace the “or” with “and.”
Dalai Lama (UK: /ˈdælaɪ ˈlɑːmə/, US: /ˈdɑːlaɪ ˈlɑːmə/; Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Wylie: Tā la'i bla ma [táːlɛː láma]) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest of the classical schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso, who lives as a refugee in India. The Dalai Lama is also considered to be the successor in a line of tulkus who are believed to be incarnations of Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.