Dalai Lama Connects With 14,000 At Bell Centre

The Dalai Lama showed off his well-known humour at Bell Centre Saturday.
Photograph by: Phil Carpenter, The Gazette

Ocean Of Wisdom Opens Hearts -- Montreal Gazette

Dalai Lama connects with 14,000 at Bell Centre.

Know thyself and have an open heart toward others.

That was the simple yet potent message delivered to Montrealers yesterday by the Dalai Lama, who has come to personify laid-back cool among religious leaders.

The 74-year-old Buddhist monk and exiled leader of Tibet’s 6 million people used little more than his famously down-to-Earth appeal in his talk about the power of compassion to more than 14,000 people at the Bell Centre.

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