March 17, 2015 – Palo Alto, California, USA
His Holiness the 17th Karmapa set foot on an American university campus for the first time today. Setting a pattern for the many university visits planned for his two-month trip around the USA, His Holiness today visited key sites on the Stanford campus, met with students, interacted with faculty—including neuroscientists, psychologists and religious studies professors—and delivered a lecture to a packed auditorium. (Separate reports to follow.)