VIOLENCE: The Tibetans have witnessed their people slaughtered and tortured, but they remain peace-loving: "Killing human being is something lmost unthinkable."

Everyone has the potential to kill. Someone who's usually gentle and compassionate might lose his temper and use a weapon. Could he kill?

"I think so, deep down."

COMMUNICATION: If a person doesn't open his heart to others, "less human affection, more ill feeling, it automatically close our inner door."

DEATH PENALTY: "The death penalty just as a punishment for the person, this I don't think has social reasons. So no more death penalty . . ."

A person who has murdered should be put to death only to teach a lesson and frighten others. Then, perhaps, sacrificing someone's life for the whole community's benefit might be good.

DRUG USE: Some visitors use illegal drugs -- easy to get in India -- when they come to study Tibetan Buddhism. But that isn't necessarily bad. "Eventually they find some meaning of their life and discontinue, stop taking drug and become a very ... genuine human being, and show more respect towards parent, and reunited."

ENVIRONMENT: "Earth is our mother" and man can't continue to exploit the environment without giving something back. The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which he attended in June, "clearly demonstrated how important, how serious ecology problem."

HOMOSEXUALITY: "It is wrong. Should be avoided." But for someone with no religious faith, "then I don't know."

"In the name of freedom of sex, then that is included. But at the same time, male and female ... [has] a definite purpose. Not only a few moments' pleasure, but reproduction. Life itself. It creates substance. Not other side. No adequate reasons."

BIRTH CONTROL: "From Buddhist viewpoint, each individual human life is considered precious, so to control such precious life is not good." As a Tibetan refugee, "it is advisable to make use of birth control. But in thinking of future Tibet, we need more people. So it is contradictory."

AIDS: The disease "reminds people not to be promiscuous and sexually deviant." It's not a question of morality or religious acceptance. Sexual freedom has gone too far. "This disease very much involves sex . . . or different kind of sex. So to me, I think people have gone beyond the limits indulging in freedom of sex."