That's my philosophy. That philosophy contributed to his winning the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, and, if anything, appears to have been only strengthened since Chinese troops invaded the Rooftop of the World in 1950. Nine years later, the Dalai Lama slipped out of his homeland during a failed uprising in which, by official Chinese accounts, nearly 90,000 Tibetans were killed. The Dalai Lama maintains that 1.2 million have perished under the Chinese rule, and more than 6,000 temples and religious sites have been razed. Martin Luther King Jr. Yet he insists he never sought the limelight.
People are too serious.
All the time, too serious. He says he dreams of the day when he can leave all the protocol and politics behind and disappear into the hills on a religious retreat. Whether I like it or not, I have to come back. I have no say in the matter. But he doesn't get many days off.