Dalai Lama In Madison

His Holiness, The Dalai Lama

There are not words that can describe my feelings of being in the same room with one that is undoubtedly the greatest man that walks on the face of the earth.

I got a visit from an old friend of mine from Tennessee just passing through to hang out with her CheffyBoy for a couple days and I took her to the public talk that the Dalai Lama gave before attending the weeks worth of teaching that was offered. Tammi Lee had left the day of the first teaching, so she was cruising to Memphis while I was in study with by far the greatest individual that graces this planet.

The week was totally inspirational in a variety of ways, His Holiness and my visit fromTammi Lee being one of the many. While living in Tennessee I had attended Losel Shedrup Ling, a Buddhist temple in Knoxville and members of the temple had attended the teachings as well and that in and of itself was very satisfying.

One day I made arrangements to take them to my little town after the teachings along with a young lady from Ontario and we had a blast. While I was taking them around they were taking pictures of our little excursion with their cell phones and I gave Victoria and Jiang my camera and told them to take as many pics of Mineral Point as they wanted and that I would post them on my Picasa photo album so here are a few of my favorite pics and at the end I will put a link to all of the other pics that I put up on Picasa, there were quite a few really cool pics of Mineral Point taken.

I told you Chef was living in a small town!!!!

The Gang from LSLK hanging out for a pic in the center of High Street

Jiang, Padma, Pergamo and Victoria

Tammi Lee on the Capitol Steps in Madison

Victoria and Jiang in the Garden at Shake Rag

Victoria being cute in the garden at Shake Rag Alley

Flower pic of the Garden at Shake Rag

Another Shake Rag Picture

Dinner at the Old Royal Inn

This pic was really cute...took everyone to Cafe Four for what I consider some of the best Ice Cream and Jiang Ke couldn't make up her mind so she got a tasting of all of the ice cream that the rest of us didn't order...man could that girl EAT!!!

After we had dinner we went galavanting up and down High Street and through town before we went to Cafe Four for dessert.

You can find all of the other photographs that were taken by our little entourage of Mineral Point here.