His Holiness the Dalai Lama is offered a traditional Tibetan welcome on his arrival at the Drepung Gomang Institute in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 19 2013. Photo/Jeremy Russell/OHHDL
His Holiness the Dalai Lama reciting consecration prayers at Drepung Gomang Institute in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 19 2013. Photo/Jeremy Russell/OHHDL
His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking during his visit to Drepung Gomang Institute in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 19 2013. Photo/Jeremy Russell/OHHDL
Long lines of people waiting to get into the Yum Center hear His Holiness the stretch across the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky on May 19, 2013. Photo/Sonam Zoksang
His Holiness the Dalai Lama greeting representatives of different religious traditions at the start of an interfaith ceremony at the Yum Center in Louisville, Kentucky on May 19, 2013. Photo/Sonam Zoksang
The St Stephen Temple choir performs as part of the interfaith ceremony with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and religious leaders at the Yum Center in Louisville, Kentucky on May 19, 2013. Photo/Sonam Zoksang
Some of the more than 14,000 attending His Holiness the Dalai Lama's talk on 'Engaging Compassion' at the Yum Center in Louisville, Kentucky on May 19, 2013. Photo/Jeremy Russell/OHHDL
His Holiness the Dalai Lama gestures during his talk on 'Engaging Compassion' at the Yum Center in Louisville, Kentucky on May 19, 2013. Photo/Sonam Zoksang