Bridging Worlds

Ithaca College looks forward to welcoming His Holiness the Dalai Lama to campus on Wednesday, October 10, as part his series of local speaking engagements titled “Bridging Worlds.”

All tickets for his 2:00 p.m. presentation in Ben Light Gymnasium, “Eight Verses on Training the Mind,” have sold out. Those who were unable to purchase tickets can watch the live broadcast of his talk for free on large-screen televisions that will be set up in the Emerson Suites and in Ford Hall. Additionally, ICTV will broadcast the presentation on Time Warner Cable channel 16 in the Ithaca area, and it will be available to view on the Internet:
Webcast

A personal favorite of the Dalai Lama’s, “Eight Verses on Training the Mind” is a text that provides concise instruction on how to engage with the world in a more compassionate and idealistic way, whereby the ideal becomes the real. This fundamental mental transformation is based in traditional Tibetan Buddhist metaphysics and epistemology and presents rational, practical steps by which to change one’s way of interacting with the world and oneself.

The Dalai Lama’s October 9–10 visit to the area is taking place under the auspices of Ithaca’s Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies, which is the North American seat of his personal monastery.

In addition to his Ithaca College talk, the Dalai Lama will give a lecture titled “A Human Approach to World Peace” at Cornell University and conduct an interfaith dialogue on “Prayers for World Peace” at the State Theatre. Tickets for those presentations have also sold out; for information on how to view those events on the Internet:
The Namgyal Monastery Events Schedule