The Dalai Lama at Emory Student Experience

When Davis Burgess came to Emory from Alabama as a college freshman in 2007, he never dreamed hed have experiences that would change the direction of his life meeting His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, and studying abroad in...

When Davis Burgess came to Emory from Alabama as a college freshman
in 2007, he never dreamed hed have experiences that would change the
direction of his life meeting His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, and
studying abroad in India with the Emory Tibetan Mind/Body Sciences
program. Burgess represents the ever-growing number of Western and
Tibetan students who benefit from the study abroad opportunities and
academic programs of the Emory-Tibet Partnership and from the Dalai
Lamas affiliation with Emory in his capacity as Presidential
Distinguished Professor. Burgess, a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar, says
he first became aware of the Tibet-China conflict as a prospective
student, when the subject came up during a dinner on his interview
visit to Emory. When he arrived on campus, he joined Students for a
Free Tibet. Then, when the Dalai Lama visited campus that fall in
his capacity as Presidential Distinguished Professor, His Holiness
took time to meet with the group and bless each person individually.
He enrolled in the psychology of enlightenment, taught by
Emory-Tibet Partnership Director Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi. Then he
took Tibetan 101, one of the few such language programs in the
nation. He was hooked. With Negis encouragement, Burgess signed up
in 2009 to be one of 14 students in the inaugural Emory-Tibetan
Mind/Body Sciences summer program in Dharamsala, the heart of the
Tibetan exile community in northern India. This highly acclaimed
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