The Selfishness Debate: Ayn Rand vs the Dalai Lama

No student of Rand, here. But I've gleaned this much. That I thought Rand imputed a kind of selfishness to altruism in that the rewards of it were equated with any other type of reward. I haven't sensed a hostility to altruism from Rand so much as a hair splitting definition of the personal rewards arising out of it to fit her world view. I also thought she did quite well explaining the naturally existing limiter to the malovent side of selfishness in that the selfishness of others would restrain it. I think she protrays the working natural law quite well. Its when we overlay our real statutory law onto her worldview with all the machinations of powwr plays that enter into the evaluation that we fail to see her side clearly.