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.