Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama was in town over the weekend and it was a big deal, locally. Especially since China and Tibet have been in the news lately due to recent conflicts caused by Tibet's quest for freedom. He was in the newspaper every day while he was in town, giving speeches. Anyway, I thought his presence was kind of neat, but it didn't really matter a whole lot to me, that is, until we ran across him.
We walking on our way to the Green Festival when a motorcycle convoy passed in front of us and blocked all traffic across the street. It was annoying at first, since we wanted to cross the street, but we realized that it was for the Dalai Lama, who was staying at a hotel next to the convention center. After a few minutes of waiting, the Dalai Lama came out (or maybe it was just two people dressed like him) and then the convoy passed by. Anyway, that was pretty neat.
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We moved to Seattle in February 2008 and shared blog posts and photos during our first few years in Seattle.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Saw the Dalai Lama
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3 comments:
that's cool. I saw the Pope once.
Dalai Lama is in New York visiting the UN. Goes up to a hot dog vendor and says, "Make me one with everything."
(pause)
Dalai Lama gives the vendor a $20. After a minute the vendor has not given him his change, so he asks, "where's my change"?
"Change must come from within."
the first one is good, much as I hate to give anonymous credit for anything.
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