ATLANTA, Georgia: His Holiness Dalai Lama began his second day of the US visit with a meeting with members of the China-Tibet Initiative at the Emory University.
A Chinese student gave a brief introduction explaining that initially five students had agreed the need to arrange meetings between Chinese and Tibetan students and that their number has grown to eighty. He said getting to know each other was the most important thing and suggested theirs was a model for conflict resolution among students.
Asked what Chinese and Tibetan students could learn from each other he said he didn’t know, but the main thing was to make clear that Tibetans are not anti-Chinese.
As to what he would say if he were to meet President Xi Jinping, he said he didn’t know, but will decide when that happens. He mentioned friends who suggest that Xi Jinping is more realistic and expressed admiration for his tackling corruption.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is an honorary professor of Emory University, then proceeded to the Glenn Memorial Auditorium, where twelve hundred students and staff were gathered to listen to a dialogue between him and President James Wagner on the topic of Secular Ethics.
