Dalai Lama says inter-religious dialogue key to ending terrorism

Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said terrorism carried out in the name of religion is a “very sad” reality facing the post-Cold War world and urged religious leaders to promote interfaith dialogue to break the chain of violence.

 

In an exclusive interview with The Asahi Shimbun in Gifu city in early April, the 79-year-old revered Buddhist monk also said that people need to respect other faiths and strive to see that everyone is the product of deities, or the “same son of God,” as monotheistic religions would phrase it, no matter the religion.

 

“The danger of a war, a third world war, including the nuclear threat, I think, is now basically no longer,” said the Nobel laureate, who won the Peace Prize in 1989. “Then, one sort of sad thing nowadays is violence also involves religious faith, and that is very, very sad.”

Read More: INTERVIEW: Dalai Lama says inter-religious dialogue key to ending terrorism – AJW by The Asahi Shimbun.