Visit from His Holiness the Dalai Lama Canceled
We regret to inform you that we were notified on Friday, September 25 by the Private Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama that the Dalai Lama’s October visit to the United States has been canceled. Among the events that have been canceled are the Dalai Lama’s scheduled appearances at Smith College, Amherst College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The statement from the Private Office is below.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in the United States earlier this week for a medical evaluation. Upon completion of the evaluation, the doctors have advised that His Holiness take complete rest. As a result, His Holiness will be returning to Dharamsala next week and will not be able to visit the United States next month. We deeply regret cancellation of the visit and apologize to everyone who has worked so hard in organizing the visit as well as to the public who have been looking forward to the visit. We thank everyone for their support and understanding and would like to consider rescheduling the visit in the future.
The Private Office has noted that His Holiness is interested in rescheduling his Pioneer Valley visit at a later date. Should that occur, we will provide additional information as soon as it becomes available.
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Jay Garfield is the director of the Five College Tibetan Studies in India Program and regularly travels with students to India for the intensive program of study in Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan language and Tibetan history and culture. Garfield, the Doris Silbert Professor of Philosophy at Smith, received a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College, and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. An authority on Buddhist philosophy, Garfield wrote Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation and Western Idealism and Its Critics. In addition to exploring Buddhism, Garfield’s work spans the disciplines of cognitive science, applied and theoretical ethics, and the philosophy of mind, language and technology. He has studied the development of the theory of mind in children and the impact of teaching philosophy in primary schools on the development of citizenship values in children.
Sue Darlington, associate professor of anthropology and Asian studies at Hampshire College, received a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and history from Wellesley College, and master’s and doctoral degrees in anthropology from the University of
Michigan. Her research, based on extensive fieldwork in Thailand, looks at the work of Buddhist monks engaged in rural development, environmental conservation and other forms of social activism. The broader questions she addresses in her research and teaching include understanding the changing social, cultural and historical contexts of human rights, environmentalism and religion in society. She also teaches about socially engaged Buddhism, religious movements, and Southeast Asian studies. Darlington is actively involved in the struggle for human rights in Burma.
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Jay Garfield at Smith College 
Sue Darlington at Hampshire College
