Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall exit (the one with the 80-ft. dinosaur next to the Highway) thread through station wagons and campers jamming Main Street. Once inside Wall Drug, road-weary visitors are faced with a bewildering pastiche of class and kitsch. The store sells $200 Tony Lama boots-as well as $2.19 models of Mount Rushmore and corncob toilet paper for $1.19. Left-handed calf ropers can buy lariats twisted especially for southpaws. The Rock Hound Shop offers fossils and crystals. Campers buy heavy iron skillets, lightweight canteens and water-purifying tablets; ranchers buy lousefly killer, sheep-branding liquid and cow vaccine...
Gently rolling, woodsy Dunn, Wis. (pop. 4,965), could never pass for Shangrila. But the karma was fabulous there last week, thanks to a visit by the Dalai Lama, 46, the exiled leader of Tibet's Buddhists. Some 1,500 pilgrims arrived in a caravan of black-and-yellow school buses at the town's 13-acre Deer Park Buddhist Center. The occasion: the spectacular Kalachakra, the wheel-of-time ceremony that all but guarantees participants nirvana. Never before performed in the West, the Kalachakra has been given only six other times by the present Dalai Lama...
...estimated 6 million Tibetans still follow the exiled leader, who serves as de facto political as well as spiritual leader of the tiny Himalayan mountain country. Exiled by the Chinese in 1959, the Dalai Lama has lived since in northern India...
During his last appearance at Harvard, in October of 1979, the Dalai Lama told a crowd of more than 1000 gathered in Sanders Theater that an understanding of one's inner self was vital to eliminating "coarser levels" of understanding...
Officials of the two groups sponsoring the visit said no plans had been made for another major address like the Sanders speech. "Dalai Lama" is a Mongolian title meaning "ocean of wisdom"; the current Dalai Lama is 46 years...