Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 30 September 2009 (CBC News) - The Dalai Lama has returned to Calgary for the first time in nearly 30 years, accepting an honorary degree from the city's largest university and a white cowboy hat from the mayor.
The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader also brought his message of peace to a crowd at the Pengrowth Saddledome on Wednesday afternoon, giving a public address as part of a two-day visit to the city for a University of Calgary conference called NOW.
He spoke to the audience of peace not only on a global, national and family level, but on a personal one.
"We can say violence is generally speaking out of anger, hatred. Peace is out of compassion. So therefore, genuine peace through compassion. In other words, external, long-lasting genuine peace mostly comes through internal peace."