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Dalai Lama, Bishop Tutu to Headline Vancouver Peace Summit
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by Jarrett Martineau | March 31, 2009 at 10:33 am
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the renowned Buddhist spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people, will headline the "Vancouver Peace Summit: Nobel Laureates in Dialogue" this September in Vancouver, Canada.
The summit, which is scheduled to run from September 26-29, 2009, will be dedicated to exploring "issues confronting humanity, the search for peace, the search for happiness".
The Dalai Lama will be joined by other well-known activists and laureates including Bishop Desmond Tutu, Dr. Wangari Maathai, Mary Robinson, and Eckhart Tolle.
Through "discussion-based events", the Vancouver Peace Summit will focus "on the themes of peace, education, interfaith harmony, women and peace-building and youth".
Most of the events will be open to the public and tickets are expected to go on sale in late May or early June.
The last time the Dalai Lama visited Vancouver 30,000 tickets sold out in just a few hours.
For more information visit the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education
The Dalai Lama will headline a “spiritual dream team” of Nobel Peace Prize laureates and international activists at a peace summit this September in Vancouver.
Victor Chan, co-founder of Vancouver’s Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education, said the Vancouver Peace Summit: Nobel Laureates in Dialogue, will take place Sept. 26 to 29.
Joining the Dalai Lama in Vancouver will be Bishop Desmond Tutu, who was awarded the Nobel peace prize for his work to end apartheid; tentatively environmental activist Dr. Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize; former Irish president Mary Robinson; spiritual writer Eckhart Tolle; and educators, philanthropists and entertainers such as the Blue Man Group.
During his visit, the Dalai Lama will also serve as guest editor of a special edition of The Vancouver Sun. The Dalai Lama will be the guest editor of the entire edition, which will be themed around “Educating the Heart.”
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at 11:35 on April 13th, 2009
To whom it may concern,
My name is Dr. Yung H. Nam, President of the Peace Hospital Foundation(PHF) in Los Angeles, California USA since 2004.
If you know the Organizer for the Vancouver Peace Summit on Sept 26-29, 2009, please let me know, because the PHF would like to attend at the Peace Summit. We've been invited at the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates since 2006 by the Mr. Gorbachev Foundation.
Thank you very much for help.
Look forward,
Dr. Yung H. Nam
at 16:59 on May 2nd, 2009
Dr Nam,
I believe I know who is organizing the event and I've sent her an email on your behalf.
Kindest Regards,
Joy Stephens
Founder - Canadian Friends of South Africa
at 15:00 on June 9th, 2009
Hello,
My name is Dr. Yung H. Nam, Founder and President of Peace Hospital Foundation(PHF) in Los Angeles, California USA since 2004.
We would like to attend at the Vancouver Peace Summit on Sept 26-29, 2009. Please give me the information how can we go over there.
Thank you very much for help.
Yung H. Nam, President of PHF