Dalai Quote by Pico Iyer

If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm…

— Pico Iyer

When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at this moment.

— Pico Iyer

I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for…

— Pico Iyer

With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What…

— Pico Iyer

The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.

— Dalai Lama

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

— Pico Iyer

Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way than most…

— Pico Iyer

Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific message for…

— Pico Iyer

More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is…

— Pico Iyer

The Dalai Lama should not be partisan either, should remain above.

— Dalai Lama

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

— Pico Iyer

I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great…

— Pico Iyer