Dalai Lama: President Obama reminds him of a monk

Saturday, February 20, 2010

After the Dalai Lama’s meeting with President Barack Obama on Thursday, the Aspen Institute held an intimate reception for the exiled Tibetan leader in Washington, offering a handful of supporters a rare chance to get close to the him.

At the reception, the Dalai Lama said Obama “reminded him of a monk,” the Aspen Institute said in a message sent by Twitter on Friday morning.

Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama was a low-key event. They met off-camera in the Map Room, rather than the Oval Office. No reporters were present. The White House released only a single official picture and a written description of their meeting. A Christian Science Monitor reporter caught a photo of the Tibetan leader walking past a pile of White House trash on his way to speak with reporters.

The Dalai Lama said he was pleased with what he said was a warm meeting with Obama, Dick Friedman, CEO of Boston real estate development firm Carpenter & Co., a part-time Aspen resident and acquaintance of the Dalai Lama said. He said the Dalai Lama told jokes and quipped that Obama “looked like a monk and had a peaceful, calm expression on his face.”


read: http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/139338

:rofl:

...I would bet they become friends, quietly, and stay in touch. The Dalai Lama is very calming and playful. Pres. Obama needs someone like that in his life...

wouldnt that be nice.

. . . that has allowed me to reconsider Mr. Obama in a more humanistic light, despite profound differences I have with major planks of his policy and agenda.

I'm not a bit surprised....

a MONK?
Wait, what's a MONK said the moran.

essentially useless to their own causes in that I've certainly not heard of any political resolutions for him or his monks. So is he inadvertently saying Obama is going to be as ineffectual as the Dalai's monks have been?