By Chris Pasles
The Dalai Lama, winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, will give an address Sept. 21 titled “Healing the Divide” at a concert in Avery Fisher Hall at New York’s Lincoln Center.
The concert, organized by actor and peace activist Richard Gere and composer Philip Glass, will feature musicians from around the world, including Glass, soprano Jessye Norman, sitarist Anoushka Shankar, the Kronos Quartet and the Buddhist monks from the Gyuto Tantric Choir, among others. The choir is part of Gyuto University, which was founded in 1474 in Lhasa, in what was then Tibet, and moved to Dharamsala, India, following the Dalai Lama’s exile after the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959.
Proceeds from the concert will benefit Healing the Divide, a nonprofit organization seeking to help people in poor communities throughout the Himalayan region. There has been discussion about taping the concert, but nothing is set.
