Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:46:02 PM by ANI ( Leave a comment )
By Girish Kumar Dubey
Varanasi, Jan.14 (ANI): Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has
said that a moral crisis in the world is to blame for the global
economic woes.
Selfishness and a lack of spirituality and culture in the world were
key causes for the current crisis in the world''s financial markets,
he told Buddhist students in Varanasi.
The 73-year-old Nobel peace prize winner said people had forgotten how
their own fortunes and those of others were connected.
"People have become selfish and materialistic, which has led to the
economic slowdown," said the Dalai Lama at a gathering of 20,000
students at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies.
He said the solution was in recognising our interdependence, valuing
education and protecting the natural environment.
He said that people needed to be less interested in consumerism, less
selfish and to understand that if we want to survive and be happy,
everyone must survive together. (ANI)
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