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Article: Hello, Dalai! Tibet's Dalai Lama tours United States.
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- October 3, 2003
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WASHINGTON,D.C.--The United as a visitor from a far-off land. He's wrinkly, bald, and wears a robe. And he's very, very wise.
No, not Yoda. The Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet. (A lama is a Tibetan Buddhist monk.) On September 6, the Dalai began a 16-day tour of the United help promote autonomy, or Tibet, which has been under rule since 1951.
The Dalai Lama's first U.S. stop was the University of San Fransisco, where he presided over an interfaith service attended by more than 1,000 people and representatives from 25 religions, including Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism. At the ceremony, he said that all faiths have the same ...