The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, said that despite intense opposition from mainland China, he will continue to visit Taiwan, although he has no intention to talk about political issues during his trips.
The Dalai Lama, right, is shown with B. Alan Wallace, president of The Santa Barbara Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Consciousness, left, during a conference called "Investigating the Mind: Exchanges between Buddhism and the Biobehavioral Sciences on How the Mind Works," at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2003, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)
In the spring of 1992, out of the blue, the fax machine in Richard Davidson's office at the department of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison spit out a letter from Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
The Dalai Lama (R) bends down to watch as technician Choe Dolma (C) explains a machine sequencing canine DNA during his visit to the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research September 13, 2003 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader is participating in a two-day conference on science, spirituality and human biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while in the Boston area.
Photo by Jim Bourg
Tibetan Buddhist Lama Kunga Tenzin encounters Watson, a white handed Gibbon ape, during a traditional Tibetan blessing for the animals as well as the newly opened Parrot Jungle Island in Miami.
"The early bird catches ... the Dalai Lama" might have been the motto of the hundreds of Harvard students who turned out as early as 1 a.m. Friday for tickets to the Tibetan leader's Sept. 15 appearance at the Memorial Church.
Students began lining up soon after midnight to get their tickets for the Dalai Lama's talk on Sept. 15. Jeff Yip plays catch, while Neil Mehta and August Dietrich (all class of '06) try to nap. (Staff photos by Stephanie Mitchell)
Just after 11, as the sirens began to wail in the distance, a lone drummer started to tap out the rhythm of a Tibetan welcome. A group of men, wearing white masks and headdresses, began to perform an ancient Tibetan opera dance
One day after the United States marked the second anniversary of the worst attack in its history, the Dalai Lama came to Boston yesterday bringing his message of peace in a world wracked by war and unrest.
