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gamahuche12 months ago

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It was a great pleasure to see the Dalai Lama in Prague today and by an extreme paradox to travel from a tiny mountain village called Paradise, Raj in Czech, to see him.
The last time I saw him was in VT in 1990, when he kissed my then 6-yr-old daughter Tara in Middlebury VT after she had, on her own initiative, given him a tiny cloth bag of miniature presents that she had collected for him.
That was such a free and easy sociable event, out-of-doors, in the summer; todays was in the largest conference hall in Prague, with a capacity of 2,764 people, which was completely sold out and when we arrived there were dozens of people holding signs, hoping to buy tickets.It was also beamed live on the internet
Security was thorough though, thankfully, astinishingly warm and good-natured, the translation into Czech fluent and brilliant, and the Dalai Lama in full flow amidst the love that the city and the nation bears him.
He has been a long-term friend of ex-President Havel's and this invitation came from the Vaclav Havel Foundation and Forum 2000, an initiative which VH initiated.For more info about these, here's the Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_2000
To say that we are feeling blessed is an understatement!

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