The 14th Dalai Lama is in Mumbai for the inauguration of a course of secular ethics at Tata Institute of Social Sciences(TISS.) On Monday, the Dalai Lama decided to give peaceful solutions to the ongoing India China tensions.
He said, “There are 400 million Buddhists living in China. If India invites them here they will come closer to the country.”
The Dalai Lama insisted India and China will have to learn to live in peace even though there has been unrest between the two countries.
He peacefully explained, “India and China can only create troubles for each other every now and then, but they cannot defeat each other, as both have powerful militaries. You should once think about ‘Hindi-Chini bhai bhai’ once again.”
‘Hindi-Chini bhai bhai’ was a phrase commonly used in the 1950s to describe the relations between India and China.
Dalai Lama also added that Tibet was the buffer zone between the two countries until Chinese sovereignty over Tibet came into existence.
The Dalai Lama is a spiritual man who thinks practically and rationally. Addressing TISS, he said, “The world has more than seven billion people, of which one billion are atheists. And even among believers, many are not convinced by their faiths. We need a secular way to teach values, based on scientific findings and common experience.”
He also added a more holistic education system would be required, “Humans are a combination of body and mind. While the modern education system is important to meet our physical requirements, we need more knowledge about mind and emotions. In addition to their regular subjects, we can teach children how to achieve mental peace.”
The spiritual man also had solutions to bridge the caste and class divide in the country. He said, “Lower caste people must develop self confidence, while the upper caste people should provide them opportunities for education and training.”
