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Article: Dalai Lama promotes human friendship: Christians can learn from the gracious and open style of the Dalai Lama--and we can pray for him.
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- Presbyterian Record
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- July 1, 2004
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'I am only a simple monk," says the Dalai Lama.
And, yet, this same solitary figure alarms the government of one of the world's most powerful countries (the People's Republic of China), captivates some of Hollywood's biggest stars, commands the loyalty of over five million Tibetans around the globe and recently attracted a crowd of 29,000 to Toronto's SkyDome, where he spoke on the power of compassion.
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was in Canada from April 17 to May 5, visiting Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto. The focus of his trip was the 11-day Kalachakra Initiation into Tibetan Buddhist teachings, which he led at the National Trade Centre in ...