Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 11, Number 6, 1 June 1994 — Dalai Lama visits Hawaiʻi [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Dalai Lama visits Hawaiʻi

His Holiness the Datai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) was honored by Hawaiians with a ho'okupu ceremony at the ahu on the grounds of 'lolani Palaee when he visited Hawai'i recently. Speaking before the state Legislature, he said the preservation of culture is more important than politieal autonomy, and in a talk at the Hawai'i Pnnee Hotel, he said the "realization of the oneness of human beings is very crucial." The exiled leader of TSbet and winner of the 1989 Nobel Peaee Prize stressed that national boundaries are artificiai barriers and that the distinctions between cuitures and races are "secondary." "I firmly beiieve humanity (is) basically the same," he said. "Just one human family." — Jeff Ciark

Photo by Jeff Clark