Thus, to promote a "quiet revolution" which would let people today reaffirm the meaning of life and death and go on to think about the individual's responsibilities to others and to society as a whole, he wrote The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
於是，為了推動一場能使現代人對生死意義重新確認、並進而思考個體對他人乃至社群責任的「寧靜革命」，他寫下《西藏生死書》。