Greetings! If you’re in Petaluma tonight, Friday June 6, 2008, please join Robert Thurman for discussion and book signing:

7:00pm
Copperfield’s Books
140 Kentucky St
Petaluma CA (map)

If you’re in Portland, OR, we look forward to seeing you tomorrow, Saturday June 7th and Sunday, June 8th!

Please join Robert Thurman for discussion and book signing of new release Why the Dalai Lama Matters, Thursday, June 5, 2008

4:00pm 
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925 (map)

7:15pm 
Green Gulch Farm Zen Center
1601 Shoreline Highway
Muir Beach, CA 94965 (map)

Robert Thurman interviewed by Omar W. Rosales in May, 2008

Why the Dalai Lama Matters launches in bookstores June 3rd, and the tour kicks off this weekend in Los Angeles. Here’s a list of events this week in California. Can’t wait to see you there!

Saturday, May 31st, 2008
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Robert Thurman signing Why the Dalai Lama Matters
Book Expo America booth 1958 table 94
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 S. Figueroa St
Los Angeles, CA (map)

Sunday, June 1st
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Why the Dalai Lama Matters talk and discussion
Agape International Spiritual Center
5700 Buckingham Parkway
Culver City, CA 90230 (map)

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The Hokkaido Toyako G8 Summit will be held in Japan on July 7-9th, 2008. The Chinese president, Hu Jintao, is invited too. It is an opportunity for the G8 leaders to discuss and formulate a strategic plan to resolve the Tibet issue before the Olympics begin one month later.

The past informal dialogues between the Tibetan government in exile and the Chinese have achieved little, so the Free Tibet Team Japan began the campaign to have a moderated dialogue between the Dalai Lama and Hu Jintao at the Summit in Japan.

Invite the 14th Dalai Lama to the Summit in Japan!

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