Perhaps the Dalai Lama, that living symbol of peace and compassion, should be asked to rearrange his busy schedule so as to spend a little more time on Canada’s west coast.
Tickets for the Tibetan holy man’s two appearances at the University of British Columbia on April 18 quickly sold out this week. All 8,000 tickets were snapped up in 20 minutes, and fisticuffs broke out at the box office when one man, too late to get a ticket, lost his temper. There’s a man who truly needs to hear the Dalai Lama’s message.
Perhaps it was the venue for the Tibetan Buddhist leader’s appearances – U.B.C.’s War Memorial Auditorium – which created bad karma and so led to the brawl. His addresses have since been shifted to the much bigger – and more suitably-named – Pacific Coliseum
If the Dalai Lama’s ideals prevailed in our wicked world, there would be no more wars to memorialize and the world would be pacific, indeed.
It’s a lovely sentiment, but the sad plight of his own country, relentlessly colonized and brutally oppressed by the Chinese, makes it clear there’s a long way to go before humankind gets to that point. The wheel must turn many times more, it seems, before we achieve that state.
