COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland will welcome His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to campus on Tuesday, May 7th. H.H. will be the latest in a long-list of world leaders to deliver the prestigious Anwar Sadat Lecture for Peace in the morning on “Peace Through Compassion: Connecting a Multi-Faith World”. In the afternoon His Holiness will participate in a dialogue on “A Meeting of Two Oceans: Dialogue on Sufism and Buddhism” organized by Roshan Institute of Persian Studies.
In a letter to our Founder and President Elahe Omidyar Mir-djalali, the University of Maryland President Wallace D. Loh expressed: “I want to offer my heartfelt thanks to you for your role in bringing His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to our campus in May.” “Now you have offered a strong vote of confidence in the University to carry out one of its most important responsibilities as a public university: to encourage rich and deep public discussion of the most compelling and complex issues of our time.”