Where does the Dalai Lama say '... be a better whatever you already are'? One of my favourite Buddhist quotes is from the 14th Dalai Lama


  Don’t try to use what you learn from buddhism to be a buddhist; use it
  to be a better whatever-you-already-are.


Amazing. But does anyone know the wider context of this quote. When did he say it and what was the talk i.e. can someone get a fuller transcript of the teaching?

Many Thanks
I think I found a reference to the source and it sounds more accurate. This is from Amazing Grace by Kathleen Norris -- it is relating an Inter-Faith dialog some years before the writing of her book in 1999 and here is the quote.

A report asked the Dalai Lama what he would say to Americans who want to become Buddhists,
&quot;Don't bother&quot; he said, Learn from Buddhism if that is good for you. But do it as Christians, a Jew or whatever you are. And be a good friend to us.

The quote was cleaned up by someone a long time ago and now though the sense is the same the quote is wrong.  It should not have quotation marks.
And &quot;whatever you are&quot; is in the next paragraph.