re: #377 allegro

The Dalai Lama is at the top of my list of people I’d love to have a beer cup ‘o tea with. Everything I’ve seen and read about him makes me like the guy and want to know more.

I know a guy who was a minor functionary in one of the political parties back in Oz, and he was at a dinner where the Dalai Lama was the guest of honour. When the food was served, the waiter put a giant honking steak in front of him. The local mayor and some other official I forget were seated to either side of the Dalai Lama, and were horrified, and practically arm-wrestled to see who could pull the giant offensive plate of meat away from his Holiness.

The Dalai Lama calmly removed their hands from his plate, picked up his cutlery and cut in. He likes a good steak, he does.