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Obama’s recent Nobel Prize, coupled with the Dalai Lama??s moral leadership, should propagate robust ways in which to address the deplorable situation in Tibet. While the presidential visit does not aim to snub China and bring complete autonomy to Tibet, it does have great potential to create a dialogue about human rights violations in the area. In the past year, Tibet has been a grand beneficiary of infrastructure programs from the Chinese government. While these efforts have helped bring homes to the region, Tibet still suffers numerous human-rights violations, ranging from...
...Facebook.com group: 1,208 members Number of posts under “Trying on APs?... Is it worth it anymore?”: 25 Number of trees planted for the Dalai Lama: 1 tree Number of student and faculty members present at Memorial Church, for the Dalai Lama??s talk, “Educating the Heart”: over 900 Number of cars secured for Dalai Lama and his crew: Entourage-worthy Number of cases of “probable” swine flu at the Harvard Dental School: 3 cases Number of tourists wearing face masks: Countless...
FlyBy went to visit the Dalai Lama??s tree today to try to soak in some holiness, to center ourselves, if you will, before finals. FlyBy sat with the tree. FlyBy ate lunch with the tree. FlyBy even tried hugging the tree (don’t laugh. This is a serious post. We are talking about the Dalai Lama??s tree). Nothing...
...event by local Tibetans. He spoke casually and conversationally to the audience, giving the speech an “intimate feeling,” in the words of Cristina Y. Remond, a first-year student at the Divinity School. Despite his light-hearted and easy-going demeanor, the Dalai Lama??s message was a serious—and uniting—one. “Mentally, emotionally, physically we are the same,” the Dalai Lama said. “Therefore on that level we can communicate easily.” He emphasized infusing education with...
...Harvard Graduate School of Education will launch a Twitter feed dubbed “hgse_live” that will cover the Dalai Lama??s talk at Memorial Church this Thursday. The GSE plans to continue using the account for other talks in the future in an attempt to share its on-the-ground perspective of events pertinent to the study of education as the events unfold. Michael Rodman, the director of communications for the GSE, said that he was optimistic about the potential of the new feed. “It’s a great...