Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama delivers a talk for world peace in front of the US Capitol in Washington on July 9, 2011.
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Follow On Faith for live Tweets and updates from the Dalai Lama’s scheduled “Talk for World Peace at the West lawn of the U.S. Capitol Saturday morning, a feature event of his Buddhist Kalachakra festival. 
A monk walks past a crowd gathered on the on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington before a speech by the Dalai Lama at a world peace event in Washington Saturday, July 9, 2011.
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Whoopi Goldberg is scheduled to act as emcee for the free public event, billed as the Dalai Lama’s largest public appearance since he renounced his political role to focus on his spiritual one. Cellist Michael Fitzpatrick will lead the invocation. The Buddhist leader will also take questions that were submitted in advance of the event.
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