Dalai Lama And John Hick's View On Religion

Many people have different views on religion and this will always be an ongoing battle between which religion is right and which religion is wrong, but is this really the correct question to be asking? People should be more concerned with their own religion. Dalai Lama and John Hick’s both believed that no matter what their religion a person will choose whatever religion is true for their lifestyle. The true goal is to get to the afterlife and both philosophers believed that each religion was there to better a person’s life and get them closer and closer to their end goal which is an afterlife full of happiness and love. Is this not what every person wants in the end to be happy, so why not believe what the Dalai Lama and John Hick spent their
When he was a child a group of men sent out by the Tibetan government came to his village to search for the new reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. The leader of the group, Kewtsang Rinpoche, used a disguise to be able to get to know the younger kids of the village. It was then that he meant Lhamo Thondup who became the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Of course the Dalai Lama followed buddism. In an interview the Dalai Lama was asked if he believed that Buddhism and Christanity could exist side by side peacefully. All the Dalai Lamas before him believed in religious inclusivism. In which a person believed in one religion and one religion only. This person did not believe that any other religion was valid and that you should not waste time studying or reading about another religion. This Dalai Lama believed that no Buddhist should ever convert, but it is better for people to follow religions even if they are wrong to better themselves in their
“Early in his career, Hick argued that Christian faith is based not on propositional evidence but on religious experience (Cramer).” To have someone who does not even come from a religious background to make the same points as the Dalai Lama, should show people that no matter what religion, religion is used to better people in their own ways. John Hicks came up with an idea called the religious pluralism. “Hick’s pluralistic hypothesis is based on the notion that the world is religiously ambiguous, such that it can be experienced either religiously or non-religiously, with no compelling proofs for or against any one religious or nonreligious interpretation of the world