Things I Didn’t Know About the Dalai Lama
Travel Blog • Julia Ross • 05.05.09 | 1:25 PM ET
I dropped by a lively discussion last night on all things Dalai Lama, by World Hum contributors Eric Weiner and Pico Iyer, and learned a few things about His Holiness’s travel habits: he always flies business class; is addicted to the BBC World service and feels out of sorts when he can’t tune in; and prefers to spend his downtime on trips visiting local high schools.
The discussion on Iyer’s new book, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, was held at Washington, D.C.‘s Sidwell Friends School and was reportedly taped by C-Span, so check your listings in coming weeks. Weiner did an excellent job moderating, and Iyer was articulate and gracious, as always.
In case you missed it, Iyer wrote a wonderfully cogent piece on the Dalai Lama and Tibet last month in the New York Review of Books—a must-read for anyone interested in that part of the world.