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This Week in History

March 28, 2014

Dalai Lama Visits NIH, Lectures in Natcher

The Dalai Lama and Collins speak to each other on stage

His Holiness the Dalai Lama (r) and NIH director Dr. Francis Collins

Photo: Ernie Branson

A crowd of about 1,000 NIH’ers filled Kirschstein Auditorium on Mar. 7 to hear His Holiness the Dalai Lama give the annual J. Edward Rall Cultural Lecture. But it was the Dalai Lama’s laughter—a sudden, prolonged, heartfelt and guttural chortle—that disarmed the room.  

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