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His Holiness the Dalai Lama @ Stanford

:: Thursday, October 14th, 2010 @ 10:26:16 pm

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I went to see a talk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama this morning with Pam, Laurel, and Howard and Michele Hall, who flew up yesterday and spent the night. The talk was at Maples Pavilion at Stanford University, which wiki says holds 7392 people, and it was sold out.

As is typical for any gathering of thousands of people, there was quite a bit of noise in the auditorium as we awaited the beginning of the event. People were talking to their seat neighbors, talking on the phone, etc. Shortly after 9:30am, a procession of a monks, suits, and the Dalai Lama walked onto the floor of Maples. The entire auditorium immediately went silent, and everyone stood up at the same time. And when I say “immediately,” I mean it — it was probably 5 seconds, at most. I had never experienced anything like it.

| San Francisco, CA | link | trackback | Oct 14, 2010 22:26:16
  • Adam Hanlon

    Many years ago, I had the fortune to meet Nelson Mandela. I was part of a group ferrying wounded ANC supporters to hospital during the violence just after his release. There were quite literally bullets flying around, but when he arrived (unannounced) he had this incredible aura of peace-I’ve never had that feeling before, and don’t really get the whole aura thing, but this was an amazing sensation. I think some great people just have it!

  • dardi!

    yo dude. i saw the dalai lama speak at memorial church (i think it was co-term year). i don’t know if it was the acoustics or the dalai lama’s enunciation, but i had a hard time understand what he was saying at certain times.

    i follow @DalaiLama on twitter. i really like what he has to say. this is my favorite tweet of his:

    http://twitter.com/#!/DalaiLama/status/22074824373

    anyways, what did he talk about today? i saw a recent interview with him about his support for stem cell research. and the whole china-installing-its-own-dalai-lama thing will be pretty messed up. -d

  • http://echeng.com/ Eric Cheng

    His talk was exactly about the contents of the tweet you linked to!

  • EggRollMonster

    Back in the late 80′s, I went to visit Potala Palace. His Holiness used to live there. I hope he will one day be allowed to go back to Tibet.

  • Heidi

    I went to one of his lectures years ago in NYC – it was incredibly memorable. And I LOVE when he cracks himself up.

  • dardi!

    i’m not sure if you guys know this, but since china won’t allow the current dalai lama to return to tibet, they will install their own dalai lama after the current one passes away. the current dalai lama has said that given the current situation with china, he will most likely reincarnate himself outside of china, and he even may become a girl. this means that there were will be TWO dalai lama’s: a puppet installed by china, and another exiled one that the true believers will follow. it’s gonna be ugly.
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