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Related: About this forumReligion is personal, not a tool to mobilise: Dalai Lama
https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/religion-is-personal-not-a-tool-to-mobilise-dalai-lama/1227299He was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of inauguration of National Teachers Congress, organised by MAEERs MIT World Peace University and MIT School of Government here.
Replying to a question on what message he wants to give in the wake of violence at Koregaon Bhima in Pune district on January 1, the spiritual leader said, "Religion is a personal business. Whether you follow this religion or that religion, it is personal matter. We should not mobilise...As we Buddhist, we Hindus, we Muslims. That is not good."
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"Today, the world is facing emotional problem and it can be only tackled by education and not religious faiths," he said.
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)What kind of religious leader is he, anyhow. He's certainly no Christian!
Neither Evangelical nor into liberation theology.
Not Muslim.
And plausibly at least obliquely referring to issues in Tibet. Or perhaps Burma, since that's a Buddhist/Muslim conflict. Or maybe even India, with Hindutva vs Muslim. Or Pakistan.
So many places. So many faiths.
Could have been talking about the USSR, with their anti-religion campaigns. Or still the fate of house churches in a government-centric religious system in China (where there may be a god, but the highest power is a Xi man.)
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Might want to switch pedant mode off.
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)How odd.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Says the guy who owes his career to religion not being especially personal at all, it turns out.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Yeah, that kinda stuck out a bit.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)He gets in front of the camera whenever the opportunity presents itself, he smiles a lot, and offers a lot of spurious quotes for liberal mining operations. It's a carefully constructed public image campaign bolstered in part by US interests looking to upset Chinese influence in Asia. People conveniently forget he's essentially a theocrat, and that Tibetan life under the Lamas included things like serfdom and eye-gouging as punishment.
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)witty aphorisms at every opportunity. Monetary donations are optional, of course.