109 Tibetan Quotes
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The stretches, called the Five Tibetan Rites, came to the Western world, and to me, by way of writer Peter Kelder, who was known as a lover of 'books and libraries, words and poetry.' — James Nestor
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster. — Dalai Lama
Members of the Rae Chorze-Fwaz order trace their origins back through Tibet, Japan, China, India, and ancient Egypt to the place the order was founded, the lost continent of Atlantis. — Frederick Lenz
In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite. — Milarepa
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea. — Chogyam Trungpa
An apprentice near a temple will recite the scriptures untaught. — Japanese Proverbs
Putting the gold leaf on the back of a Buddha statue. — Thai Proverbs
The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being. — Huineng
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. — Pearl S. Buck
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. — Lao Tzu
To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need the two wings of emptiness and compassion. From now on, let us use these two wings to fly fearlessly into the sky of the life to come. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama
Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. — Dalai Lama
You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower. — Amit Ray
Short Tibetan Quotes
- When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be. — Oswald Chambers
- As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . . — Pema Chodron
- I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac. — David Bowie
- Im a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian. — Dalai Lama
- Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. — Dalai Lama
- Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship. — Dalai Lama
- Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God. — Oswald Chambers
- If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster! — Dalai Lama
- Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life. — Jet Li
Tibetan Buddhism Quotes
It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism. — Adam Yauch
Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds. — Pema Chodron
All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common. — Sayings
Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me. — Sayings
The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy... and also a prolific author. — Nevill Drury
In the early '60s there was very little reliable information on Tibetan Buddhism. I was living in London and I had joined the Buddhist Society. For the most part, people there were either interested in Theravada or Zen Buddhism. There was almost no one into Tibetan Buddhism at that time. — Tenzin Palmo
What I like about Tibetan Buddhism is it was taken to Tibet in the 7th century and then again in the 11th. It has everything that had been collected in India up until that time. And so on all levels, it's so vast. — Tenzin Palmo
Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism - teaches us many things, peace comes from within, we must be free ourselves from earthly desires... — Peter Sagal
As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love. — Frederick Lenz
I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things. — Frederick Lenz
Tibetan Buddhist Quotes
Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives. — Dalai Lama
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. — Dalai Lama
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
Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience. — Gelek Rimpoche
Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are. — Sayings
Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path. — Tenzin Palmo
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
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
What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon, the Pali Canon, when we read the Tibetan books, when we read anything inspiring - somebody else's journey into the world of enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz
Tibet Quotes
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. — Dalai Lama
We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good. — Heinrich Harrer
Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone. — Paul Theroux
What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people. — Martin Scorsese
Free Tibet before free trade. — Zhu Rongji
It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet. — Sam Brownback
You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America. — Kenneth Rexroth
Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland. — Jinato Hu
I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet. — Iggy Pop
People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead." Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny. — Robert Thurman
Dalai Lama Quotes
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change. — John Cleese
There’s a World Uighur Congress based in Germany, but Uighur separatists lack a Dalai Lama-type figure upon whom foreign media can fix, and their cause is almost unknown around the world. — Tim Marshall
People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama. — Carmen Electra
I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me. — Ashin Wirathu
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live. — Sidney Sheldon
A female Dalai Lama must be very attractive, otherwise not much use. — Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought. — Jeremy Piven
I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack. — Jesse Ventura
The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them. — Daniel Goleman
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama. — Joanna Lumley
People Writing About Tibetan
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Dalai Lama |
1464 | 21491 |
 Oswald Chambers |
728 | 5075 |
 James Nestor |
51 | 1 |
 Frederick Lenz |
4396 | 6225 |
 Milarepa |
27 | 1575 |
 Chogyam Trungpa |
197 | 2706 |
More Tibetan Quotes
True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed. — Dalai Lama
The China-India border is really the Tibetan-Indian border — and that is precisely why China has always wanted to control it. — Tim Marshall
Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective. — Pema Chodron
If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself. — Tarthang Tulku
The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third age of humankind when the Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan high cultures flourished — Frederick Lenz
In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging. — Chogyam Trungpa
People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn’t cause suffering. — Dalai Lama
I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there. — Jaime King
I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it. — Jessica Hagedorn
I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience. — Kazuaki Tanahashi
The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate. — Pema Chodron
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it? — Nikki Sixx
Anyen Rinpoche is a compassionate embodiment of wisdom. The skillful teachings in The Tibetan Yoga of Breath will be a source of peace and happiness for many in these troubled times, for which I am very grateful. — Garchen Rinpoche
The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years. — Dalai Lama
I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others. — Dalai Lama
Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field. — B. Alan Wallace
The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit. — Robin Williams
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. — Ella Maillart
Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining. — Dalai Lama
In some respects I have been the most unlucky because I have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country than I have spent in Tibet. On the other hand, it has been very rewarding for me to live in a democracy and to learn about the world in a way that we Tibetans had never known before. — Dalai Lama
The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked 'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?' The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength. — Dalai Lama
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. — Jena Malone
My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential. — Dalai Lama
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