Talk by the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, who, while living in exile, is working for human rights for his own people and helping to bring about their freedom from China. He begins the talk by pointing out that human rights begins with the equality of birth, and that opposition to human rights violations goes beyond the suffering and pain of individuals; when people suffer, all of mankind suffers. The points to authoritarian systems, cultural practices of discrimination, and the use of military power to enforce totalitarianism, as various aspects of human rights violations. Too much energy is spend upon weapons, he points out, and not enough upon improving the human condition. The modern western lifestyle must be reevaluated in order to secure true human rights victories. It is human compassion, he concludes, which will provide the true answers to the crisis of humanity.|HUMAN RIGHTS AND MORAL PRACTICE / Dali Lama. - Talk by the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, who ,while living in exile, is working for human rights for his own people and helping to bring about their freedom from China. He begins the talk by pointing out that human rights begins with the equality of birth, and that opposition to human rights violations goes beyond the suffering and pain of individuals| when people suffer, all of mankind suffers. The points to tauthoritarian systems, cultural practices of discrimination, and the use of military power to enforce totalitarianism, as various aspects of human rights violations. Too much energy is spend upon weapons, he points out, and not enough upon improving the human condition. The modern western lifestyle must be reevaluated in order to secure true human rights victories. It is human compassion, he concludes, which will provide the true answers to the crisis of humanity. BROADCAST: KPFA, 1994.
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