Dalai lama has the best approach to religion

All religions should know this

Then it's high time for him to retract or update his books. He was so close to getting things right, but he messed up nonetheless. Reading his books was anticlimactic; it was almost like general semantics, but not, and it just does not match reality. Cannot blame him, though, any closer and it wouldn't be a religion but just science. Too bad he is sticking to the 'religion' (vaguest meaning possible) bit of his philosophy.