Dalai Lama Dedicates Chamtse Ling Interfaith Temple in Indiana

September 8, 2003

Source: Religion News Service

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On September 8, 2003 Religion News Service reported that the Dalai Lama led the dedication of an interdenominational, international temple called the Chamtse Ling on the grounds of the Tibetan Cultural Center about five miles southeast of the campus of Indiana University. The article added that "more than 3,000 people gathered to see the Dalai Lama, former boxing champion Muhammad Ali and numerous religious and local dignitaries in a daylong celebration of peace. 'It is my strong belief that the key message of all the world's religious traditions are the same,' Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, told the gathering. 'It is a message of love, of the importance of cultivating forgiveness and understanding, and of brotherhood and sisterhood.'"