"In Mongolia, for example, Christian missionaries have converted thousands of our people, who formerly practiced Tibetan Buddhism; in the same way, the Chinese encourage your priests to convert my people in Tibet; In East India, American missionaries use economic arguments to convert the poor mountain tribes, thus cutting them off from their roots, their culture and their ancestral way of life. It's not fair: the world is becoming more and more open, borders are being broken down by progress in technology and what are you doing? You practice conversion, which is a kind of war against people and cultures that are not like yours. This is not the message of Christ!"
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Dalai Lama, quoted from François Gautier - Les mots du dernier Dalaï-lama (2018, Flammarion)
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