Dalai Lama to visit Kentucky in May, 2013

LOUISVILLE -- The Dalai Lama plans to visit Louisville next year to visit and bless a Tibetan Buddhist temple and teaching center and make other public appearances.

The Dalai Lama, 71, is scheduled to visit May 19-21. The Nobel laureate and exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists last visited Louisville in 1994 and last visited Kentucky in 1996.

Anne Walter, board president of the Drepung Gomang Institute, the temple and teaching center, said her group had invited the Dalai Lama for the blessing and to give talks about compassion to the general public and youths in the city and give more advanced religious training to local Buddhists.