"College education tends to make simple things complicated and hard to understand. What we should do is to teach our c…"

"The first work I published was a poem. That was one of my most exciting moments. Afterwards, I wrote many different t…"

"Different indeed from any colonial or semi-colonial path is the road of Tibet within socialist China. As we have seen…"

"The absence of greed; faith in an ever-better future; the spirit of service to the people; the prevalence of mutual a…"

"There are ... almost certainly more really active people. And these people are amply sure that they are China, China'…"

"Looking back, and forward, many Hans and Tibetans today do not measure their relations by just when, in what ancient …"

"After we joined other work groups in transplanting rice, harvesting wheat, afforesting bare hills or digging a canal.…"

"We are indeed living through tremendous days, weeks and months that do indeed “shake the world” ― rejuvenating, reviv…"

"My basic ideas have not changed. I see no reason to change them."

"Already before my teens, amidst the country's surrounding internecine wars and famines, I saw gaunt, ragged refugees …"