Buddhism: The last honest religion? Entertaining Q&A with Dalai Lama 

Yes, Buddhism is a peaceful religion. It did evolve from Sanatana Dharma which encourages everyone to question everything, even the existence of God or whatever they call it..

Jainism is also peaceful. It doesn't even support the killing of insects, the eating of meat, or self-defence.

there have been a few quite un-Buddhist cases of Buddhists killing Muslims

Jacob Hallam True, Digambar Jains are very strict in their practices, Shwetambars are a little mellowed down. Idk about the second comment though.. I've never heard of Buddhist killings..

One of the groups: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodu_Bala_Sena Report on the violence: edition.cnn.com/2014/06/19/world/asia/sri-lanka-muslim-aluthgama/ The Dalai Lama condemning it: edition.cnn.com/2014/07/07/world/asia/dalai-lama-muslim-violence/

But he says that a Christian monk just asked him about Emptiness and he said it was not his business. There's a difference between not wanting to proselytise and being exclusive. The trouble is he mistakes his religion and all its absurd paraphernalia for true Buddhist philosophy and practice. Yeah, keep your prayer wheels and lamas to yourself but you have a duty to explain to people the nature of reality when they sincerely ask you.

Al Jack Well the question is more complicated what you think. To give an explanation about Emptiness is to go against christian's belief. The explanation will resolve nothing but only bring debate and opposition. His answer is an invitation to the christian to reflect about his own question and about their implications ( it's not your business means it does not correspond to your faith). I think it's the good answer from the Dalai Lama.

zoot soot I feel that the way he was asked solicited his response, but that might not have been conveyed clearly.

Andy Almeida that's the most beautifully religious thing I ever did hear, now if other religions were like this we would have world peace, Muslims seem to catch and chain you to them even if you don't wish to believe their teachings. you said the most beautiful thing. same life on repeat though I remember you posting this comment last life, we just live the same life over and over again. promise

zoot soot his mental conformity would not have allowed him to gain the wisdom of emptiness or voidness but just create contradiction with his faith.

This is a very good quote from a great scientific mind.

My profet name is Pytagoras ⭐

Endless big bangs commits the fallacy of infinite regress. Tenzin may be enlightened in many respects and areas, but his logic needs a little more work. 

TheServantofiam He's not a scientist, but his views are surprisingly tolerant and far reaching for a religious leader.

Prince Istalri that's great, I'm all for tolerance. But when it comes to truth, as in how existence came to be, while we can argue over what is possible and what might have been, we can know for sure what definitely is not true. That the universe came from endless big bangs is absolutely not true. And of you listen to Tenzin, he is saying Buddhism requires endless big bangs. So Buddhism requires something that cannot be true, to be true. I'm just not into that kind of reasoning. There's an ignorance about it that just rubs me the wrong way. Hey how did your debate go?

TheServantofiam You have a point. I never claimed that Buddhism is factually accurate, however, only that its' tenants are far more progressive than those of the other major religions, a relative rarity I admire. Pretty well. I wouldn't say either of us "won"'; while he was more well versed in bio-chemistry than I, my knowledge regarding the history of the Bible and the development of evolutionary theory was, ironically, a bit more solid.

John Doe "We will never know how lighting works, so let's just live." "We will never know how the sun works, so let's just live." "We will never know how gravity works, so let's just live." "We will never know how the seasons work, so let's just live."

+Mugunumulle Chandima +Aoi Blackbird Exactly. Jesus did that 500 years after Buddha and Jesus taught us to love God with all our heart, with all our mind, and with all our soul, and to love one another as he loved us. He also said that ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, and knock and the doors will be opened to you. Jesus is an all action dude, don't just sit around and meditate selfishly. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.

Michele Fio what an amazing imagination dude.

Timothy law were u in receiving end of world war2

@Siyovaxsh En-sipad-zid-ana Exactly. Jesus is a man, and he shat, ate, and drank like a real man. Jesus is a Buddha technically, but he is not a Buddhist follower, that's the point. Jesus taught us to love God with all our heart, with all our mind, and with all our soul, and to love one another as he loved us. Heaven is in the sky as well as on earth. Do you love God ? Do you understand what love is ? May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.

"Jesus is a Buddhist monk" Search on u tube there's a BBC documentary

bunkham!

All Buddhists are not necessary peaceful. _ists are human. Buddhism is peaceful, but mundane buddhists, it depends on individual.

you havent meet those who are naughty yet, hahaha.

+M rayache Burmese conflict is an ethnic struggle which has no any connection with Buddhism. Slavery is completely rejected in Buddhism. Read Sigalowada sutra of Deegha Nikaya.

+r.c. Vivek well hinduism predates it by about 4000 years doesnt it?or am i mistaken.

+andrew You might right. But Vivek was talking about 'Honest Religions' :)

Bernard Solomon fair point i suppose.

I don't think so.

lordeppiothe1 But Buddhism isn't a religion.

what is it then?

Hi I recently watched some videos about a Vietnamese monk giving Buddhist lectures to a group of grown ups . It is a course for people who want to know more about Buddhism and the different branches. If u want ,I can give u the link.

+mustang18530 it can be, if too much money is involved for the wrong reasons, depends how you see it

+Noah Edelson there are 84000 types of buddhism, zen and tibetan are just some of the ones westerners have heard of

+Keta keti I'm a Tibetan Buddhist, and you sir are very correct

Kalana Herath Buddhism and science are two different fields all together science is materialistic Buddhism is just the opposite. Science a tool use to study nature Buddhism to study your mind!! Buddhism has never bend to the facts just quite the opposite talk about things you understand not some thing you don't and this is no exception to Dalai lama..

+Kalana Herath facts is what you can prove scientifically, Buddhism is a greater framework and understanding of the universe, why things happen, why does bad things happen to you, how does good things happen to you, what consequences of your actions can cause to others and yourself and so forth. for example if you steal some money and nobody found out, eventually you'll lose that money in one shape or form to compensate for the victims suffering because of it, as it does not belong to you.

+Kalana Herath Looks like you're bending facts to fit your narrative. Did you base this comment on a massive wealth of knowledge on buddhism and other religions, or did you just base it on this 26 min video?

just because there is 84,000 variations of buddhism doesn't mean they bend the faith? faith isn't a scientific term we use in Buddhism, we use the word confidence, you can't bend faith, it's a untouchable notion, its like saying "lets bend gravity" we don't fit the facts, the facts fit buddhism, that's how it is.

HomasterX nicely put!!! very true!!! idiots can't grasp it so they blame the obvious..

Tsering Lhamo in just harmony not religious harmony that's the thing...

Tse Angel you should see how many innocent civilians being killed by fucking America since world war 2.

+Tse Angel Holiness ??? WTF is that ? Jesus, Einstein, and I believed in God. We do not believe in or follow any religion. God is not a religion, and neither is Jesus, Einstein, or I. The Dalai Lama, like the Catholic Pope, is a fake. Buddha, like Jesus, is a man, the enlightened one, not a religion. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sQuDWt9qmBs.html

I agree with you. The explanatory text added is helpful but the comments are sometimes on the edge of the cliff. They are understandable and quite mild. His holiness has spoken of other religions as being like medicine for individuals. The teachings given to the King of Shambhalla might be like this. Why is the Kalachakra tantra given for World Peace?

Do not be angry my son.. God already lives within us he believes in us already that we can make it on are own, without him coming to rule over us and save us from evil and judgment. Instead let me say that my enlightens should enlighten you.

+Harsha Perera I would but I can't tell u that on RU-vid.. Nor on any forum. Some things can be told online. Buddhism is the way of your inner spirit and all religions complement something within.. Some may contradict in ways but there are many thing in each religion that complement in some ways.. But again I can't give details of something like that online..what I can say is until all humanity stops being proud of everything they will see what the true meaning of each religion combine into one within will unleash in you.. Now I don't mean say combine all in a book want im saying is combined them all within.. Kid you understand what I'm saying you'll figure it out..

+Indigo Aura well said you took the words right out of my mouth, I recently started researching Buddhism because the other world religions don't really focus on self improvement and self harmony, all other religions just say follow this and believe in this or your going to hell ummm...? so I'm thinking of converting to Buddhism but there is so much more research for me to do before doing so, BTW for anyone who cares and who is reading this I am currently a catholic, but I went through hard times in life and turning to my religion never helped me but I feel with Buddhism maybe there can be some sort of self harmony and spiritual revision that may occur, I need the wisdom of the Buddha.

+Harsha Perera i know is practical I have never gone to church or any other things related to religion.. I'm an observer in life.. The philosophical idea grows within naturally of the things you see.. I have the same feelings of Buddha and yet I'm not one

Anna Nguyễn Thanks for your feedback and response to my comment I will take into account everything you have said, but I have already talked to my family about the matter a few days after typing that comment and also my best friend is researching Buddhism as well and wants to convert to Buddhism, so I feel that me and him can make the journey to enlightenment together.

+lebotonton What a fake !!! May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.

Scientists don't even know how big the universe/space truely is, how can they find the centre of it? Let alone finding the centre of world systems.

Shocking truth you are not from Tibet and don't misquote dalai lama here what he thinks about India because Buddha was from India in that perspective he said India as guru not as you trying to misguide people by the name of Hinduism and Buddhism.

That's a true classic Buddhists attitude look at it from neither of the two sides but a third and all completely indifferent one.

piles joursh Yes but not a third one. Why? If Buddhism doesn't stand on the first, and the second, why does it stand on the third. I understand your meaning, but with budhism, there is no otherness. You and me are not others and at the same time not one.

all completely indifferent one

Buddhism seems to be a religion without god but the Dalai Lama is god to Tibetans. Tibetan Buddhism has countless deities worshipped as god.

TorahRealm Very true. Worshiping is far away from the ideas of Buddha. Actually Dalai said it in the speech but he is not concern about people worshiping.

religion comes from the word religio which means to reconnect. so buddhist dont aim to reconnect with god, they seek to reconnect with their buddha nature. from this point of view buddhism is a religion.

A Theist of Pants!

Your Jeans are the false god! Pants is the one true god! *goes to war!*

Silkfox Pan- as in everything Theos- as God, Pan-theist, not pants-the-is , BTW, I like jeans too!

John Doe the thing is jeans are pants, like humans are mammals.

Pantheist Alexander Shut your mouth! HEATHEN! Witch, Pant worshiper! *starts a fire* Burn the pant worshiper!

IKR! I keep wanting to find the volume button and turn it off,. lol. So distracting :(

+gonzalo huelmo depends how you see it, you can practise it as a philosophy if you choose to

Dude you have no prove to say that

I've been a devout buddhist for 9 months now, and I got other fellow buddhists that goes to the same temple as me who's been there for 10 years+ that says otherwise

most westerners view buddhism as a philosophy and way of life, hardly any of them view it as a religion even if that's what it is and how most asian people view it as.

yes it is.

Gracias Kyokito, lo voy a ver con calmita este fin y te consulto mis dudas...jjj, eres mi asesora espiritual preferida!!! :3 ]

I agree the title is unnecessary and the 'still listening Christians' If those two were not there I would like to share the video on my facebook page but I don't feel I can at the moment. Apart from that I am very glad this video is posted.

Always keeping in mind that the bible was written by man and that god is a figment of his imagination... It's exactly because buddhism have no superior source that it is so easy to accept into your life and heart. It demands no faith. It's more like a peaceful way of life than a religion. A peaceful way of life that holds compassion and logic.

olmen375 Atheists, Christians, Hindus, etc., have no compassion?? Logic?? God realm: the gods lead long and enjoyable lives full of pleasure and abundance, but they spend their lives pursuing meaningless distractions and never think to practice the dharma. When death comes to them, they are completely unprepared; without realizing it, they have completely exhausted their good karma (which was the cause for being reborn in the god realm) and they suffer through being reborn in the lower realms. Demi-god realm: the demi-gods have pleasure and abundance almost as much as the gods, but they spend their time fighting among themselves or making war on the gods. When they make war on the gods, they always lose, since the gods are much more powerful. The demi-gods suffer from constant fighting and jealousy, and from being killed and wounded in their wars with each other and with the gods. Human realm: humans suffer from hunger, thirst, heat, cold, separation from friends, being attacked by enemies, not getting what they want, and getting what they don't want. They also suffer from the general sufferings of birth, old age, sickness and death. Yet the human realm is considered to be the most suitable realm for practicing the dharma, because humans are not completely distracted by pleasure (like the gods or demi-gods) or by pain and suffering (like the beings in the lower realms). Animal realm: wild animals suffer from being attacked and eaten by other animals; they generally lead lives of constant fear. Domestic animals suffer from being exploited by humans; for example, they are slaughtered for food, overworked, abused, and so on. Hungry ghost realm: hungry ghosts suffer from extreme hunger and thirst. They wander constantly in search of food and drink, only to be miserably frustrated any time they come close to actually getting what they want. For example, they see a stream of pure, clear water in the distance, but by the time they get there the stream has dried up. Hungry ghosts have huge bellies and long thin necks. On the rare occasions that they do manage to find something to eat or drink, the food or water burns their neck as it goes down to their belly, causing them intense agony. Hell realm: hell beings endure unimaginable suffering for eons of time. There are actually eighteen different types of hells, each inflicting a different kind of torment. In the hot hells, beings suffer from unbearable heat and continual torments of various kinds. In the cold hells, beings suffer from unbearable cold and other torments.

olmen375 Buddhism is officially non-theistic religion, like Scientology, New Age, etc.. Scientology, New Age, atheism, Buddhism etc. do not believe in God

olmen375 According to the Bible itself it was inspired by God... Himself. The Bible offers fulfilled prophesy as evidence of its truthfulness. God tells the "ends from the beginning." 80% of the Bible is about the Jews and they are the only nation/people that have been reconstituted as a country after 2,000 years of dispersion (Diaspora) and occasional annihilation attempts, just as written in the Bible 2,500 years before it happened. You may achieve peace in your life on your own, but can you achieve "rest" in the next life? Given the evidence I chose the Bible, hands down, many times over.

your bible(s) has been written by many different authors, i would suggest you challenge yourself by practice MEDITATION when your mind is STILL and peaceful the wisdom and freedom is there. You definitely get THE REAL ANSWER. Your mind is a MAP and a real bible more than the bible you've got in your hand.

Святая Русь what is the use of mind meru to bring happiness and peace to the world and sentient beings.

I don't know about scientific. why does science always have to come into it.

Rahul Barua I think dalam lama is lacking knowledge about origin of buddha because he was keep connecting buddha and India but actually buddha was born in nepal and origionally he was mongoloid origin (sakya sub branch of mongoloid Kirata race of nepal who used to rule whole trans-himalayan region since beginning of earth that time there was no such india but divided into 1000s of principality that is why portrait of buddha look like chinese.

***** wake up ok.budhha was born in nepal.so he is pure nepali.due to open boarder he went india from Nepal.so please change yr narrow mind

Never.

***** until I breathe never rid of this fact

You are right that he is not belong to any single country.he is belong to all mankind.he was born in nepal.ok by