Here is his final "speech". (I watched the movie and copied it word for word.) This is the most beautiful movie and it moves me to tears every time I watch it. These words also move me deeply. I also highly suggest the soundtrack.
I rejoice in the Awakening of the Buddhas.
And also, in the spiritual levels of their Sons.
With folded hands, I beseech the Buddhas of all directions.
To shine the lamp of Dharma for all bewildered in the gloom of misery
With folded hands, I beseech all the Buddhas
Who wish to pass away,
To please remain for countless eons
And not to leave the world in darkness
My foes will become nothing.
My friends will become nothing.
I, too, will become nothing.
Likewise, all will become nothing
Just like a dream experience,
Whatever things I enjoy
Will become a memory.
Whatever has passed will not be seen again.
I will liberate those not liberated.
I will release those not released.
I will relieve those unrelieved
And set living beings in Nirvana
The Buddhas neither wash ill deeds away with water
Nor remove beings’ suffering with their hands
Nor transfer their realizations to others.
Beings are released through the teachings of Truth, the final Reality
Thus by the virtue collected
Through all that I have done,
May the pain of every living
Creature be completely cleared away
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conductor71-2
16 years ago
I rejoice in the Awakening of the Buddhas.
And also, in the spiritual levels of their Sons.
With folded hands, I beseech the Buddhas of all directions.
To shine the lamp of Dharma for all bewildered in the gloom of misery
With folded hands, I beseech all the Buddhas
Who wish to pass away,
To please remain for countless eons
And not to leave the world in darkness
My foes will become nothing.
My friends will become nothing.
I, too, will become nothing.
Likewise, all will become nothing
Just like a dream experience,
Whatever things I enjoy
Will become a memory.
Whatever has passed will not be seen again.
I will liberate those not liberated.
I will release those not released.
I will relieve those unrelieved
And set living beings in Nirvana
The Buddhas neither wash ill deeds away with water
Nor remove beings’ suffering with their hands
Nor transfer their realizations to others.
Beings are released through the teachings of Truth, the final Reality
Thus by the virtue collected
Through all that I have done,
May the pain of every living
Creature be completely cleared away
Nice job. the text is actually composed of quotations from the Heart Sutra, one of the central text for Buddhism. It's far more nicely translated than most existing modern language translation, I suspect that either the Dalai Lama himself or someone around him was letting a hand for help.
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