Fostering Friendship
His Holiness is a pre-eminent Buddhist monk with a message of compassion and peace that resonates around the world to people across faiths and traditions, including atheists and agnostics.
It is not through dialogue and intellectual engagement alone but through sharing the lived experiences of our faiths that we will bridge the chasms that divide and fracture our planet.
The Dalai Lama reaches out to the otherness of the other in a spirit of profound respect, engaging with their philosophies, rituals and practices in gestures that affirms a genuine seeking to learn from them.
The photographs offer a glimpse of his efforts for, and behalf of us all.
The pictures are used with permission from the Office of H.H the Dalai Lama, Dharamsala. Most of these are by Tenzin Choejor, the official photographer of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The exhibition is curated by Rajiv Mehrotra.