Blogging the Dalai Lama

Julie-Anne Davies continues with a second article in NineMSN-The Bulletin (1st of June 2007) entitled Boardroom Buddhism.
“High-flying executives are turning to Buddhism to bring balance into their busy lives. Buddhism is infiltrating the boardrooms of some of Australia’s top companies courtesy of their influential leaders.”
She discusses one individual in particular – “John Akehurst, chairman of [...]

In preparation for the visit of His Holiness to Australia, Julie-Anne Davies wrote a number of articles which make interesting reading. All of them hit the net on the 1st of June 2007, but they’re timeless.
In NineMSN-The Bulletin, in an article entitled The Buddha business she writes “Unless you’ve been meditating in a cave in [...]

The Australian visit of 2007 gave us another opportunity to see how politicians react when the Dalai Lama is visiting – in this case Australia, with its close economic ties with China. Will officials meet with him, even though Chinese officials caution against it, or will they not?

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New Zealand Press Association
via Yahoo News

The Dalai Lama was welcomed by Auckland mayor Dick Hubbard with a Hongi (a Maori greeting with a press of the nose) and he spoke to a capacity audience of 10,000 at Auckland’s Vector Arena. “…Dick Hubbard, who introduced the Dalai Lama, was told to ’sit down’ on [...]