Dalai Lama speaks to thousands at Rogers Centre

TORONTO, Ont. – On his 5th visit to Toronto, the Dalai Lama spoke to tens of thousands of people at Rogers Centre Friday afternoon, focusing on the subject of peace.

During his speech, he called for people of all faiths to come together and strive for peace and compassion, as everyone can practice love and forgiveness, and it is basic human nature to be compassionate.

`We should create some visions (on) how to build a healthy world,” he said, asking for “human warm heartedness” from the eager audience, who clutched Tibetan flags in one hand and popcorn in the other.

“The meaning of human approach is more compassion, and genuinely consider others as brother and sister,” he added.

He also told his followers that there is a major gap between the rich and poor not only in Canada, but across the world.

In addition to his Rogers Centre appearance, he also delivered a keynote address to an audience at the University of Toronto on Friday.

His three day visit to the city consists of attending the inauguration ceremony for the Tibetan Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto’s west end on Saturday, where he will bless its construction. He will stay in a specially constructed home on the second floor of the building.

Sunday, his holiness will hold his long life initiation ceremony and give the eight verses of training the mind teaching at the centre. He is scheduled to leave Toronto on Monday.

The Dalai Lama lives in exile in India. Chinese officials view the leader as a political agitator since he staged an uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet back in 1959.

His last visit to Toronto was in 2007.

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