What do you see as the connection between caring for the natural environment and human rights?

What are your simple rules for happiness?

Do you have a favourite piece of music?

What are you doing to help increase the present situation and status of women in your country, and primarily, in your religion?

The current world conflicts in Afghanistan and the middle east are well defined by which religious groups are against others (ie Christian, Muslim, Jew) How do we sow the seeds for religious tollerance for the generations to come?

The new millenium is a tumultuous time for every young person around the world, they are faced by depression,youth sucide,poverty and insecurity. With your vision to the future, is there a simple solution to the numerous issues that face our youth worldwide?

If you could give every young person one attribute, gift or quality to help them to survive their life, what would it be?

Who will take on your role with the Tibetan people and the Buddhist world when you are no longer with us?

why is it so hard to be inspired? how come good ideas never surface when you need them most but come to you when you least expect it? is it because our minds need to be free from other thoughts? or is it simply because some people have the natural talent and others dont?

The State of the World Forum had the slogan "Something is dying and something is being born, we just don't know what it is yet". Our world is changing, and at an amazing rate. What role do you think Spirituality will have to play in the 21st Century in a world with ever increasing amounts of information, fewer borders and a growing gap between rich and poor?