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Moral
crisis responsible for global economic woes: Dalai Lama Varanasi:
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.
- Jan 14, 2009
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