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Dalai Lama asserts that compassion is emphasized by Islam

MARK WILSON/GLOBE STAFFThe Dalai Lama spoke at Harvard's Memorial Church and emphasized the importance of studying religions other than one's own. MARK WILSON/GLOBE STAFFThe Dalai Lama spoke at Harvard's Memorial Church and emphasized the importance of studying religions other than one's own. (Mark Wilson/Globe Staff)
By Michael Paulson
May 10, 2009

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This is a scene that immediately captured my imagination: Last week, in the preacher's room at Memorial Church in Cambridge, the Dalai Lama, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his advocacy of nonviolence, turned to one of Harvard's leading scholars of Islam and asked him about the meaning of jihad. (Full article: 908 words)

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