In November of 2005, His Holiness the Dalai Lama traveled to the United States for two weeks. He spent much of those two weeks in Washington, DC for a series of events. He spoke at the Investigating the Mind Conference (sponsored by the Mind and Life Institute, he gave a keynote address at the annual conference of the Society for Neuroscience, and he spoke to the public at the MCI Center on November 13, 2005.

This public talk was sponsored by the International Campaign for Tibet and the Mind and Life Institute. This segment of the program, the Talk itself, lasted one hour. » Download the transcript (PDF) [add download]

Videos of the event

Welcome, Introduction and Narration of People's Event
Mary Beth Markey, Executive Director of ICT
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader of the US House of Representatives
Terre Blair

Public Talk
His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso

Question and Answer Session
His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso

Transcript of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 2005 Public Talk in Washington DC

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