Dalai Lama Visits Boston

Source: ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030912_120.html

On September 12, 2003 ABC News reported that "the 14th Dalai Lama is simultaneously the exiled monarch of Tibet, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning statesman and Buddhism's most renowned world leader aspects that are all evident during his current U.S. tour....apparently the biggest gathering ofBuddhist teachers ever held in the United States. Only followers of theDalai Lama's own Tibetan form of the faith are invited, although somespeakers will come from other traditions...Such get-togethers are rarebecause North American Buddhism is highly individualistic anddecentralized, with less unity and nationwide cooperation than is foundin Christianity, Judaism or Islam....One survey puts U.S. Buddhists at 3 million to 4 million. Most areimmigrants, their numbers swelled by the 1965 liberalization of U.S.immigration laws."