Kundun (1997)


Chairman Mao: Religion is poison.

Kundun: Just like a dream experience, whatever things I enjoy will become a memory. Whatever is past will not be seen again.

Kundun: I will liberate those not liberated. I will release those not released. I will relieve those unrelieved. And set living beings in nirvana.

Kundun: Thus by the virtue that has collected through all that I have done may the pain of every living creature be completely cleared away.

Dalai Lama: I see a safe journey, I see a safe return

[Hearing the Chinese propaganda loudspeakers blaring outside.] Dalai Lama: They have taken away our silence.

Indian: Are you the Lord Buddha? Dalai Lama: I believe I am a reflection, like the moon on water. When you see me, and I try to be a good man, you see yourself.