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The Dalai Lama: Interviewed by Robert Thurman

11 years ago, the Dalai Lama explained American sympathy this way: “I feel that Americans are interested because they are open-minded. They have an education system that teaches them to find out for themselves why things are the way they are… Buddha urged people to investigate things — he didn’t just command them to believe.” [Read]



By Robert Thurman // At Mother Jones // On November/December 1997

Filed In Articles // On Mar 12, 2008 // Under Tibet



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11 years ago, the Dalai Lama explained American sympathy this way: “I feel that Americans are interested because they are open-minded. They have an education system that teaches them to find out for themselves why things are the way they are… Buddha urged people to investigate things — he didn’t just command them to believe.”