an exclusive interview. Avarice and shortsightedness were to blame, he said, adding that people were guided by emotion and did not think of the long-term consequences. “Ecology and global warming – for these problems there cannot be any interstate borders, they must concern the whole world,” he said. The Dalai Lama recently met over 7,000 pilgrims from Russia, India, China, Mongolia, Japan, US and other countries at his residence in Dharamsala in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh. Russia’s Buddhist regions have had close relations with Tibet, and it was good that interest in Buddhism in these regions was growing, the Dalai Lama said.
Source: News Leaks