Dalai Lama

So they say Buddhism is a religion of peace and His Holiness the Dalai Lama must be a peaceful man. But he nearly shoved me over today.

I was at Forum 2000 today, an annual gathering of intellectuals around the world to "reach out" to each other and "create dialogues" or something. All I know is that I was just standing there during the coffee break, and His Holiness and his posse of bald-heads just about knocks me on my ass.

I missed the forum yesterday which would have been awesome because Vaclav Havel, Jacques Chirac, Elie Weisel, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and special surprise guest Joan Baez(?!) were all present. Today was an "interfaith" discussion which was pretty good. The Dalai Lama got really touchy on this Rabbi and kept joking about he was a non-believer, since Buddhism doesn't have a divine creator. Nutso.

GERMANY

I'm pretty bad at keep up this blog. But here's a summary of the past two weeks, done very quickly. Last weekend: Munich for Oktoberfest [see "Fear and Loathing at Oktoberfest 2006" for more] Spent about a day there / saw Dachau / intense / Back to Prague / this weekend: ciee trip to cesky krumlov / small idyllic town in southern bohemia / tabor: home of hussite museum and legendary hussite military genius jan zizka--blind in one eye yet never lost a battle......then to berlin / brandenburg gate / film museum (Ray harryhausen figures) / pergamon (ancient art) / unification day festival / ben lachmann?!?!?! / hot banditoz:



dresden / back to prague / home cheap home