[Dalai Lama:] The concept of the independent existence of living creatures and things has always been rejected, from the first, in the very words of the founder, by practically all Buddhist schools. Nothing exists separately. On the contrary, everything is connected to everything else, as is being explained in the Questions of [the] Net of Indra Sutra.
p. 33
The Dalai Lama and Jean-Claude Carriere Violence and Compassion
Doubleday, 1996
English translation of Force du bouddhisme (Editions Robert Laffont-Fixot,1994). Conversations between Bstan-'dsin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, and Jean-Claude Carriere.

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