All tickets have been sold for the Dalai Lama’s May 10 visit to the University of Oregon.
Student tickets for the 1989 Nobel Peace Laureate’s presentation were made available at no cost to incidental fee-paying students on March 5. Tickets for UO faculty and staff were made available for $20 each on March 7 and 8, and tickets for the general public went on sale today (March 11); the event is sold out, the university said Monday afternoon.
The UO and the Eugene Sakya Center (Nyen-Gyud Samten Choeling for Tibetan Buddhist Studies) are co-organizing the visit by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
The Dalai Lama is scheduled to speak at the UO’s Matthew Knight Arena at 1:30 p.m. His presentation, entitled “The Path to Peace and Happiness in the Global Society,” will also be webcast at www.uoregon.edu.