His Holiness on Happiness

The 14th Dalai Lama is coming to Boston area starting April 30 with an event at Harvard, according to his online schedule. The public talk at the College is titled "Educating the Heart" and will take place at Memorial Church.

Later that afternoon, the religious leader for Tibetan Buddhists will speak at MIT and inaugurate The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values there. But that event will only be open to sponsors and MIT students, via a ticketed lottery. If you were hoping to catch His Holiness at Harvard Medical School on May 1, that event is already sold out.

Following his time at Cambridge's top two universities, his holiness will speak at two events in Foxborough, MA, both of which are open to the public (for a fee). The morning talk will be an introduction to Tibetan Buddhism and its four noble truths. The afternoon talk is called "A Path to Peace and Happiness." Tickets for both the morning and afternoon events, held in Gillette Stadium, cost $37.50. Tickets for the afternoon event only cost $22.50—proving once and for all that happiness is not free.