Wendy and her friend Photo: courtesy David Channer

‘Gyatso and Tutu are examples of how life experience is more fundamental than differences in belief.’

Double standard: Howard Grace on two joyful men

‘Gyatso and Tutu are examples of how life experience is more fundamental than differences in belief.’

by Howard Grace 15th July 2022

When our daughter Wendy was about seven years old, she joined us at a reception for Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth dalai lama. Wendy and her friend (pictured) were playing hide and seek, and their heads popped up from behind a sofa he was about to sit on. He loved that, welcomed them out from behind it, and gave them a big hug.