Dalai Lama’s wisdom for challenging times

Recently, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the Dalai Lama paid his 4th visit to the cam­pus, his first being in 1984. Since then, the University cre­ated the Tibetan Cultural Studies endow­ment and in 2001, the XIV Dalai Lama Endowed Chair in Tibetan Buddhism and Cultural Studies was estab­lished in the Department of Religious Studies. Upon the invi­ta­tion of the XIV Dalai Lama Chair, Professor Jose Cabezon, His Holiness returned to speak to a crowd of over 3,000 at Thunderdome bas­ket­ball sta­dium for the day. In the morn­ing, the Dalai Lama deliv­ered a schol­arly lec­ture on the ‘Nature of Mind’ which cov­ered all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. In the after­noon, his talk was enti­tled ‘Ethics for Our Time’ in which the Dalai Lama answered a vari­ety of per­sonal ques­tions in addi­tion to the top­i­cal con­cerns of the moment-​​-​​addressing how to stop one’s inter­nal strug­gle, and keep the peace in the face of finan­cial wor­ries, rela­tion­ship prob­lems, and phys­i­cal pain.

For our Open Mind seg­ment this month, pro­ducer Julie Adler brings you exclu­sive audio from that after­noon talk.

For more infor­ma­tion on the Dalai Lama, his talks and teach­ing sched­ule, go to DalaiLama.com

Or get more infor­ma­tion on the Buddhist Studies pro­gram at University of California, Santa Barbara.