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Monday 16 April 2012

Dalai Lama ‘set to bless Aldershot FC’s pitch’

THE Dalai Lama is to address devoted Buddhists — at the home of football minnows Aldershot Town.

The spiritual leader of Tibet is expected to bless the pitch at the 7,100-capacity EBB Stadium in June.

His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, 61 — who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 — will deliver a talk on “non-violence, dialogue and universal responsibility” during an eight-day tour of the UK.

He is going to Aldershot because of the Hampshire town’s large Nepalese community — after its links to the Army’s Gurkha soldiers.        Full Read

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