Learn more about the Dalai Lama’s Ithaca connections.

Need to work on your karma? The Dalai Lama will visit Ithaca College on October 10 to present “Dharma Talk: Eight Verses on Training the Mind.” His talk will focus on achieving a more compassionate and ideal interaction with the surrounding world.

This is not the first visit to Ithaca for the Dalai Lama. In fact, Ithaca’s Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies is the personal North American monastery of the Dalai Lama, and a branch of the main Namgyal Monastery located in Dharamsala, India.

Since its founding, the Ithaca-based branch of Namgyal has offered classes, events, summer retreats, conferences, and guided pilgrimages to local students of Buddhism. The monastery is currently located in downtown Ithaca, but a new facility is being built to accommodate the monastery’s growing student base.   

While in Ithaca, the Dalai Lama will also present a lecture at Cornell University entitled, “A Human Approach to World Peace,” and hold an interfaith dialogue entitled, “Prayers for World Peace.”