When his brother died in Indiana in 2008, the Dalai Lama didn't make it to his funeral. When you believe in reincarnation, and that this life is just a doorway to the next, there's no great importance to funerals, his followers explained. Yet, two years later, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate finds himself standing at his brother's Indiana culture center, sharing insights on inner peace and happiness, the commonalities among world religions, and the importance of an unbiased press. One notable point rests in his view of Buddhism's role in the West: "Buddhist religion belongs to the East. The West, Judeo-Christian background you have your own rich tradition. There is no need for a new tradition. But Buddhist science, Buddhist philosophy is universal. So in the west...that is, I think, very useful to learn."
