Double standard: Howard Grace on two joyful men

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

Wendy and her friend | Photo: courtesy David Channer

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.

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