When the Dalai Lama delivered his first lecture to an American audience, the year was 1979, and the place was in northwestern New Jersey, at an obscure Buddhist teaching center.
“We had maybe several hundred people,’’ said Diana Cutler, who has lived at the center for decades. “He wasn’t famous then.’’
That has changed.
Recently, the 75-year-old leader of Tibetan Buddhism and global human rights champion addressed more than 32,000 people at Rutgers University’s football stadium — on “Peace, War and Reconciliation.’’
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