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Article: The Dalai Lama's in town.
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- National Review
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- November 16, 1984
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THE DALAI LAMA'S IN TOWN
WHILE GROMYKO, speaking to the United Nations, was cataloguing the iniquities of the West during the past forty years, the Dalai Lama made an appearance at Middlebury College, where a week-long symposium is exploring "The Christ and the Bodhisattva,' an inquiry into what Buddhism can learn from Christianity, and vice versa.
A little personal background. In 1937, a delegation of Buddhist monks, as though guided by a Star of Bethlehem, arrived at a peasant's cottage in Tibet. There, alone with a two-year-old boy, they placed before him a collection of articles that had belonged to the 13th Dalai Lama: a black rosary, a yellow ...