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The Dalai Lama joins Pope Leo in call for peace: “I urge for and pray that the violence and conflicts may soon come to an end”
The Dalai Lama emphasized that lasting peace requires dialogue and mutual respect amid ongoing conflicts, including those in the Middle East and Ukraine, he said on March 31.
- On Tuesday, the Dalai Lama wholeheartedly endorsed Pope Leo XIV's powerful appeal for peace delivered during his Palm Sunday Mass, backing the pontiff's call to end global violence.
- Pope Leo's appeal comes as Russia's aggression against Ukraine continues and the Middle East conflict escalates, with the United States and Israel-Iran war gaining new fronts daily.
- The Dalai Lama emphasized that Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism share fundamental messages of compassion and tolerance. "Violence finds no true home in any of these teachings," he stated.
- About 2,500 United States Marines arrived in the region last weekend amid the escalation. The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem called the war an "expanding wreckage" on March 27.
- The Dalai Lama said he "urges for and prays" that violence and conflicts "may soon come to an end," advocating for solutions rooted in dialogue, diplomacy, and mutual respect.
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Dalai Lama warns ’violence begets violence’, urges peace in MENA
Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama warned on Tuesday that violence only results in more conflict, urging peace as conflict rages in the Middle East and Ukraine. "History has shown us time and again that violence only begets more violence and is never a lasting foundation for peace," he wrote in a letter on Tuesday. "An enduring resolution to conflict, including the ones we see in the Middle East or between Russia and Ukraine, must be roote…
In a public message the Buddhist leader supported the call to non-violence and disarmament launched by the pontiff on Palm Sunday, emphasizing the values common to all religions: "Love, compassion and tolerance' as a basis for resolving conflicts, from the Middle East to Ukraine.
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