Dalai Lama opens Senate session with prayer

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WASHINGTON (AP) — And on Thursday, the Dalai Lama prayed in the U.S. Senate.

With dozen of lawmakers listening raptly, the Nobel laureate from Tibet opened the session with his favorite prayer and words of advice. He delivered his brief remarks in both a foreign tongue as well as self-described “broken English.”

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