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...typical of the enthusiasm that followed him throughout the country. His address on "The Nature of Self" at Sanders Theater last Wednesday drew a crowd of over 1500, and the waiting list for tickets stretched into the hundreds. Over 200 graduate students and faculty members filled his seminar on "Buddhism and Society" given at the Divinity School the next day, and requests for interviews, audiences and autographs innundated him until he left Saturday afternoon for his home in exile in northern India...
...centuries the Dalai Lama was the god-king of Tibet, spiritual and temporal ruler of an enigmatic Asain civilization hidden among the Himalayas. Today the Dalai Lama remains a spiritual leader for millions of followers of Tibetan Buddhism across the world. But since Communist China took over Tibet twenty years ago, he has become a controversial political figure as well...
Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR), the 44-year-old Buddhist monk will spend three days at Harvard, participating in a Divinity School seminar on "Buddhism and Society," attending a private reception at the CSWR and holding a press conference in the Faculty Club...
Speaking in halting English, the lama told a press conference that Buddhism, particularly the distinctive Tibetan form, has something to offer the materialistic West: "Through centuries, we have acquired some knowledge of mind." He added, in St. Patrick's, that "one of the most important things is compassion. You cannot buy compassion in one of New York's big shops...
...point he claims, preposterously, that the issue of Manchu nationhood is being debated "heatedly" by scholars. He even concocts a bizarre drama in which the Tibetan Dalai Lama takes up residence in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator and rallies Tibetans and Mongols-who share the same kind of Buddhism-to separatism...