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Dalai Lama endorses daoism, secular buddhism

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This is a Sept 2012 Times Of India interview with HHDL that i have been meaning to post here for a while

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/We-need-to-be-21st-century-Buddhists-Dalai-Lama/articleshow/16583639.cms?intenttarget=no

 

"I don't especially favour constructing a monastery or temple, I'd prefer to see an academic centre of learning instead, and somewhere that could be a focus for the study of Buddhist philosophy, Daoism and secular ethics. I recently told people in Ladakh that they should aim to make their monasteries centres of learning,"

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