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The attachment that seeks what is good is worthwhile. Could you tell me why the dalai lama matters, in the united states, in india, but also in china. His act of truth as the solution for china, tibet, and the world. Tenzin choejor with an eye to the complementarity between buddhism, which has been exploring the human mind for millennia, and western science, whose neuroscience and psychology are barely a century and a half old, the dalai lama writes in the preface to the book.
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