PHOTOS & SPANISH VERSION BELOW
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama has inaugurated on September 19th the Festival of Religions of Florence 2017 at the Forum Nelson Mandela. In his speech, the Dalai Lama praised the European Union as a great contributor to making peace, and pointed on the need for Russia and all the countries in the continent to focus also on this task. He wished for a similar alliance between Asian countries, among Africans and Americans, achieving a great union of humanity through which conflicts would be eradicated. «Man should use intelligence to cultivate values like love, instead of putting it at the service of anger to generate conflicts and wars (…). This century must be the century of dialogue.» He also criticized the Western educational system in which studies focus more on the material, rather than on promoting the inner values of the human beings, among whom love prevails. The intervention ended with a round of public questions.…
