Dalai Lama talk planned here Sunday

The Dalai Lama, Buddhist leader in exile from Tibet, will speak on "The Buddhist Way to World Peace: Meditation and Altruistic Commitment" at 4 p.m. Sunday in Hill Auditorium at the University of Michigan. The address, sponsored by the U-M Office of the vice-president for academic affairs and the Program on Studies in Religion, will be preceded by a symposium on global peace from 1 to 3 p.m. in Rachkam Auditorium. The Dalai Lama will participate in the first hour, approximately, of the symposium. On Monday, the Dalai Lama will also appear at 3:30 p.m. in the Community Arts Auditorium at Wayne State University. Both speeches, at the U-M and Wayne State University, as well as the symposium at U-M are free and open to the public. Other speakers contributing to the symposium will include J. David Singer, a professor of political science at U-M, and Thomas Banyacya, spiritual leader of the Hope Indian nation.The 103 p.m. symposium is sponsored by Synthesis, a local group committed to world peace, and by the Office of Ethics and Religion at U-M and the Pilot Program at Alice Lloyd residence hall under the auspices of the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. The Dalai Lama - recognized by his followers as both a temporal and spiritual leader in his 14th and perhaps final reincanation - was drive out of Tibet during a conflict in 1959 between the Chinese occupying that country and Tibetans in Llasa, their capital city. Since his exile, the Dalai Lama has lived in Dharmsala, India. He is visiting the United State for the first time.