Tibetan Buddhist Quotes:

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

- Richard Gere

topic: World, Holiness, Quantum, Quantum Leap, Nobel Prize

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Happy, Social Good, Loving Others

Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path.

- Tenzin Palmo

topic: Buddhist, Flower, Snow, Tibetan Buddhist

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

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Political Independence, Tibetan Buddhist, Tibet

There are many graphic artists who have interpreted The Ancient One as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, we're kind of shifting that a bit. We're trying not to be fixed, we're trying not to be fixed to any one thing, any one gender, any one spiritual discipline, and any one race even; we're just trying to wing it beyond that. So it's a new gesture really, just another interpretation.

- Tilda Swinton

source: "‘Doctor Strange’ Interview: Tilda Swinton Talks About Her Transformation Into The Ancient One". Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. September 28, 2016.

topic: Spiritual, Buddhist, Artist, Spiritual Disciplines, Tibetan

The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhist, Buddhism, Light, Tibetan Buddhist

We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet people, I don't think about being different from them, about being Tibetan, Buddhist or even the Dalai Lama. I only think about being a human being. We all share the potential for positive and negative emotions, yet one of our special qualities is our human mind, our intelligence. If we use it well we'll be successful and happy.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Dalai, Human Potential, Tibetan Buddhist

Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality. In the dream state our bodies are at rest, yet we see and hear, move about and are even able to learn. When we make good use of the dream state it is almost as if our lives were doubled: instead of a hundred years we live to be two hundred -- Tibetan Buddhist Tarthang Tulku from

- Stephen LaBerge

source: Tarthang Tulku (1978). “Openness mind”, Dharma Pub

topic: Dream, Buddhist, Moving, Overlooked, Tibetan Buddhist

Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Tibetan Buddhist

Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

- Gelek Rimpoche

topic: Buddhist, Taught, Reaching, Tibetan Buddhist