DALAI LAMA: Encouraging a Compassionate World

LARRY KING: I agree. What do you think as you look back on your life, what’s your greatest accomplishment? What are you proudest of?

THE DALAI LAMA: I don’t know. Difficult to say. Sometimes I feel, over 30 years, I have serious discussion with scientists. And usually I call Buddhist science a dialogue between Buddhist science and modern science. I think that… I think nobody initiated that. I think one of my achievement. Then another thing. In Tibetan case, nunnery. You see, recent centuries, I think at least a few centuries, you see, no sort of what’s the tradition carry rigorous study. That, after we come to reach India, I think in ’60s and early ’70s, then I decided. I urged all nunnery, you see, should start rigorous study. Now after 20, 30 years, some nuns already become top scholars. That also, I feel, one my achievement.

LARRY KING: Do you fear death?

THE DALAI LAMA: No. It is part of nature, part of our life. Sooner or later, it will come. Actually, in my daily practice, you see, visualizing, visualization the death process in preparation when actual death come. But actual come whether I can have success this practice or not, I don’t know.

LARRY KING: I don’t know either. Thank you, Your Holiness. Always an honor to be with you.

THE DALAI LAMA: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.