Oh, Shocking…..Dalai Lama: “I’m a Marxist,”
The USA Today stated that the Dalai Lama said:
By Jim Mone, AP
“as far as socio-political beliefs are concerned, I consider myself a Marxist … But not a Leninist,” he clarified.
A person named Tsering Namgyal was there at the University of Minnesota and wrote about this at Religion Dispatches.
However, one one student asked why his belief in Marxism didn’t clash with the Dalai Lama’s own teaching. The Dalai Lama had this to say:
Marx was not against religion or religious philosophy per se but against religious institutions that were allied, during Marx’s time, with the European ruling class. He also provided an interesting anecdote about his experience with Mao. He said that Mao had felt that the Dalai Lama’s mind was very logical, implying that Buddhist education and training help sharpens the mind. He said he met with Mao several times, and that once, during a meeting in Beijing, the Chinese leader called him in and announced: “Your mind is scientific!” — an assessment that was followed by the famous line, “religion is poison.”
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