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THE SNOW LION NEWSLETTER
Dalai Lama Tells Youths: "War is Outdated"
Associated Press
The Dalai Lama urged thousands of teenagers at a world peace conference Saturday to embrace globalization and accept people from all countries as neighbors and collaborators, not rivals.
"There are no national boundaries. The whole globe is becoming one body," he said at the PeaceJam convention. "In these circumstances, I think war is outdated... Destruction of your neighbor is actually destruction of yourself."
War creates environmental problems, trade gaps and humanitarian suffering that everyone must bear, he said, speaking for more than an hour at the convention, which brought together 10 Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
PeaceJam participants—teens assembled from 31 countries—opened their first day of lectures and interactive sessions with laureates at the University of Denver.
The Dalai Lama urged the teens not to get discouraged or think they have to stop all wars themselves.
Instead, their mission is to learn from the previous generation's mistakes and start now by opening dialogue with each other.
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More about the Dalai Lama . . .
To read more about about His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and his activities, visit:
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To learn more about the Dalai Lama's World Peace Initiative, visit His Holiness's website to promote world peace at www.dalailama.com
For an updated biography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama visit The Office of Tibet New York's website at www.tibetoffice.org.
You can also view His Holiness's updated 2006 teaching events at: www.tibetoffice.org/en/index.php...
The Dalai Lama is the contributor to and author of numerous books, including:
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