Dalai Lama's 88th Birthday: Five powerful quotes by the Tibetan spiritual leader

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Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso was born on July 6, 1935 to a farming family in  Taktser, Amdo, northeastern Tibet. Born as Lhamo Dhondup, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama Thubten Gyatso after identifying some objects that belonged to the latter.  In 1959, the Dalai Lama came to India after the brutal suppression of Tibetan uprising by the Chinese army.

Since then, the 88 year old has been living in Dharamshala.  In 1989, Dalai Lama was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize in honour of his “philosophy on reverence for all living things and the idea of a universal responsibility that embraces both man and nature." In recent times, there have also been demands to honour the Dalai Lama with the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award. In 2019, 200 Members of Parliament across party lines, led by former Himachal Pradesh CM Shanta Kumar, signed a memorandum urging the Central government to award the Dalai Lama a Bharat Ratna.

1) “Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings".

2) “No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster" 3) “Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other" 4) “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying.