The Dalai Lama will hold a conference on “compassion” for 10,000 people in a stadium in Zurich during a visit to Switzerland next month, organisers said.
The tickets for the August 7 conference were snapped up just ten days after going on sale, a spokesperson for Switzerland’s Tibetan Bureau said, adding all profits would go to charity.
The event will be part of an eight-day teaching tour by the Buddhist spiritual leader.
He will also meet Interior Minister, Pascal Couchepin, after the Swiss government refused a request from Chinese officials to cancel the visit.
The Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, will be in Switzerland from August 2 – 12.
It will be his fifteenth trip to the land-locked nation which counts 3,000 Tibetans among its population – the largest group outside of Tibet.
