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Dalai Lama to receive award
11/10/2007 23:05 - (SA)
Washington - The White House announced on Thursday that US President George W Bush will have talks with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, next week.
Bush and the exiled Tibetan leader are to meet a day before the Dalai Lama receives the Congressional Gold Medal in a Capitol Hill ceremony.
The congressional award is reserved for individuals who display the highest moral courage. Past recipients have included Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa Nelson Mandela.
The Dalai Lama, the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner, earlier this year was named a distinguished professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia - the first time he has accepted a university appointment.
He is to deliver an inaugural lecture during an October 20-22 visit to the university, which has a prominent Tibetan studies program.
The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 and set up a Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala, India after China crushed an uprising against its rule.
- AFP
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