Dalai Lama to talk about Buddhism

The Dalai Lama will speak on "The Buddhist Way to World Peace" during his visit to the University of Michigan, Oct. 7. As previously announced, the Buddhist leader in exile from Tibet will visit the U-M as part of a six-week tour of the United states. The political-spiritual figure will speak at 4 p.m. in Rackham Auditorium. The lecture, sponsored by the U-M Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs and the Program on studies in Religion, is free and open to the public. The Dalai Lama is the first among his 13 predecessors, appointed since the 1950s, to come to the West. According to Buddhist doctrine, the Dalai Lama, meaning "Ocean of Wisdom," has been successively reincarnated, most recently in the person of HIs Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, born in 1935 in a peasant family from the Tibetan village of Takster.