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...year-old Buddhist monk's reception here was 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...
When he arrived in New York seven weeks ago, expatriate Tibetan Buddhists, American devotees and interested followers thronged the airport to chant greetings to the Dalai Lama. Through weeks of appearances and talks in eleven cities, innumerable colleges, Buddhist centers and public forums, his welcome remained strong. And although he came to Harvard at the invitation of the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR), the Dalai Lama's significance as a religious leader here and elsewhere seems to be more than simply academic...
...true Tibetan Buddhist monk need not wear maroon robes nor even be Tibetan, the Dalai Lama stressed. The external aspects of religion--the rituals and customs, the surface manifestations-- are peripheral from the true religious standpoint. "The emphasis is on essence," he said repeatedly during his visit. "All religions are basically the same," he added, "we are all seeking to grow spiritually...
According to Tibetan Buddhist belief, the material world is a school through which all souls pass in order to learn the spiritual lessons of sympathy for human suffering, patience, humility, and love. Death, they feel, is simply a release from the illusion of the material world. They believe in each life the soul within its body acts on the environment for a limited time, until, like a lightbulb, the body burns out, allowing the soul, or electricity to flow on. This soul is born again and again in material form, until it has learned all the lessons of the earth...
...after election day, the city of Cambridge will decide whether to continue, or deny, a certificate of occupancy to the Cambridge Buddhist Association...