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The Dalai Lama Talks to Larry King on Meeting Obama

His Holiness The Dalai Lama was on Larry King Live last night he spoke to Larry King about his meeting with President Obama a few days before:
The full interview with the Dalai Lama is available on the Dalai Lama’s website.

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Lawmakers Honor The Dalai Lama

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill honored the Dalai Lama with a human rights award on Tuesday.
The Dalai Lama said the award encourages him, at 74, to dedicate the rest of his life to the “promotion of human affection and compassion, and equality and basic human rights in Tibet, or in mainland China, or everywhere.”
Nancy Pelosi, the [...]

The Dalai Lama Stresses Ethics and Values at MIT

Last week, I drove down to Massachusetts so that I could attend the inaugural event at MIT’s Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values.
My interest in attending the event was two fold:

First –  To hear the Dalai Lama speak because I feel he is one of the great spiritual leaders of our times.
Second – Because I feel [...]

Back Online Tonight

Greetings Readers… Just a quick note… The Dalai Lama was awesome, I’ll have a full piece here tomorrow about it and I’ll be back online tonight with the latest in the news.

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Note to Readers: Off to Boston to Hear The Dalai Lama Speak

I’m heading to the Boston area later today for a 3 days so that I can attend the inaugural event at The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT on Thursday, April 30. 

I’ve been granted a press pass from The Center, so I will have a substantial piece on the event when I return from [...]

Dalai Lama Condemns China Over Tibet

Today marks the 50th anniversary of His Holiness The Dalai Lama’s exile from Tibet.
Tibetans and their supporters marked the anniversary of their failed uprising against Chinese rule with rallies around the globe as The Dalai Lama delivered a harsh and blistering attack on the Chinese government during a speech today in Dharamsala, India, (the seat of the Tibetan [...]

Dalai Lama Becomes Emory Professor

On Monday, His Holiness, the Dalai Lama “was formally installed as a professor” at Emory University, as ”Tibetan monks wearing moon-shaped yellow hats chanted and played cymbals, gongs and horns.” The occassion was marked with a gift of a “faculty ID card,” although the Dalai Lama’s face is “recognized around the world.”
“I suspect you will not [...]

Congressional Gold Medal Awarded to His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Today, defying protests from the Chinese government, the United States “conferred its highest civilian honor on the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, and urged China to meet with him in Beijing to resolve their differences over his demands for autonomy for his mountainous homeland.”
In his acceptance speech, the Dalai Lama expressed deep [...]

A Miss for the Moon-Begotten (i)

The Dalai Lama and GW Bush: Odd, isn’t it, to see their names in the same phrase?
Evidently a subliterate “dig” was issued yesterday, as some imbecile shot off his big mouth about how such and such “proves” that Astrology is ‘bunk’ without having the first idea what he was talking about. This can’t be taken [...]

Dalai Lama: Fight Violence with Peace, Poverty with Compassion

Theres’ a bit of strange irony in the fact that the Dalai Lama’s visit to Idaho today to sponsored by Idaho’s Republican Governor.
Personally, I have a great deal of admiration for the Dalai Lama. He is without a doubt one of the world’s great spiritual leaders of our times. His message transcends politics and speaks [...]