Tickets On Sale Today To See Dalai Lama In Philadelphia
By Dan Wing
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --- One month after Pope Francis makes his visit to Philadelphia, the Dalai Lama will be in town for a two-day trip.
His Holiness will be here to receive the Liberty Medal at a ceremony on October 26th, but while here, he'll also be part of two other public events. Tickets to those events went on sale Wednesday morning.
The first stop on the two-day trip for the Dalai Lama will be at La Salle University, where he'll be giving a public teaching on the Eight Verses for Training the Mind at 1pm on Monday, October 26th.
Tickets for the event at La Salle sold out in under two hours on Wednesday.
The next day at 9:30am, His Holiness will be holding a public forum at Temple University's Liacouras Center called Finding Happiness in Troubled Times: Educating the Heart in the 21st Century.
Tickets to both of those events can be bought online at DalaiLamaPhilly.org.
Tickets to the Liberty Medal Ceremony held at the National Constitution Center the night of Monday, October 26th are expected to go on sale in September.
