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Subject: H-ASIA: RESOURCE The Early Tours of the Dalai Lama

> H-ASIA
> May 4, 2011
>
> RESOURCE The Early Tours of the Dalai Lama
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> From: Bill Magee <billmagee@ddbc.edu.tw>
>
> Dear H-Asia members,
>
> The UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies and Dharma Drum Buddhist College are
> pleased to announce an online series of digital audio recordings of
> sixty-five of the talks given by the Dalai Lama during his early tours in
> the United States, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain between 1979 and
> 1984.
>
> They can be accessed either at the UMA Institute web pages
> (http://uma-tibet.org/dl_tours.php) or through the Hopkins Tibetan
> Treasures Multimedia Archive hosted by Dharma Drum Buddhist College
> (http://haa.ddbc.edu.tw/DL_000.php).
>
> The languages of the recordings are Tibetan and English. Except as noted,
> the introductory interpreters are Tenzin Geyche Tethong and Tenzin Namgyal
> Tethong and the general interpreter is Jeffrey Hopkins.
>
> These early tour recordings are of special interest both for historians of
> the Dalai Lama's career and for those interested in his essential
> teachings. During these talks His Holiness speaks about numerous Buddhist
> topics, the need for inter-religious dialogue, his hopes for the future,
> world peace, and so forth.
>
> (A book of the Dalai Lama's talks drawn from lectures in the United and
> Canada, titled, "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight" is available for download
> or purchase from Snow Lion Publications.)
>
> --
> William Magee, Ph.D.
> Dharma Drum Buddhist College
> Jinshan, Taiwan
>
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