The Dalai Lama must come: Part I

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will visit Botswana in two weeks’ time to participate as an honorary guest at a public conference hosted by the Mind & Life Institute. The government of Botswana has opened its doors to the Dalai Lama’s participation at this conference, taking place at Botho College in Gaborone under the topic:  “Botho/Ubuntu: A Dialogue on Spirituality, Science and Humanity with the Dalai Lama”.

The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the traditional, religious and temporal head of Tibetan Buddhists and was made head of state at the of age 15 in 1950, the same year that Chinese troops occupied Tibet. The Dalai Lama held negotiations with Chinese officials on Tibetan self-rule with little success. In 1959, he fled Tibet for exile in India after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.