It almost seems perverse, but one wants to say thank goodness that the Chinese invaded Tibet. Yes, because I don’t think that we would have had the same contact; we certainly would not have had the same friendship.” And then, seeing the ironic humor in history, the Archbishop started to cackle. “You probably would not have got a Nobel Peace Prize.” The Dalai Lama was now also laughing as they poked fun at these esteemed prizes, as if to say that we can never know what, in the end, will come of our suffering and adversity, what is good and what is bad.
