Today was a very special day in my life! IIMC got a little visit from The 14th Dalai Lama to talk about "A Human Approach to World Peace!"
Aman and I in the auditorium waiting for The Dalai Lama to take the stage...
The Dalai Lama entered the stage to standing ovation before he began talking about the human approach to world peace.
The first thing The Dalai Lama did before beginning his speech was to dig out a cap out of his bag and put it on... He didn't like the spotlights because they made him "blind" to the people he was trying to talk to... He spoke for about an hour, cracking jokes as often as he could... He may be the Dalai Lama and a Nobel peace prize winner but dude's funny!!! He even showed us how China sees him!!! (To them he is the devil) :-)
After an hour he went back to his seat for some Q&A...
The schools art club had made a portrait of The Dalai Lama and asked him to sign it before hanging it up in one of the teaching building here...
It is very interesting to meet someone so well known and so influential and see them for the person they really are... Who knew that The Dalai Lama was such a clown with so much self-distance?! This just once again proves that coming to India was one of the best decisions of my life... I am adding experiences from this trip that I don't think I would have gotten anywhere else!!!
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