Bodh Gaya (Bihar): Hollywood star Richard Gere looked spellbound listening to the discourses of the Dalai Lama on meditation today.
on meditation for improvement of one's personality.
"Meditation can lead to welfare of human being," the spiritual leader said.
Gere had reached Patna on Monday without informing the state government and travelled here in a private vehicle to attend the discourses by the Dalai Lama at the Kalchakra Maidan.
A celebrity practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, Gere reached Bodh Gaya incognito and met his spiritual guru and exchanged greetings with monks.
The Dalai Lama's five-day teaching session organised on the occasion of the the seven-day Geluk Monlam Puja at Mahabodhi Mahavihara here will end tomorrow.
PTI
First Published: Friday, January 08, 2010, 18:53