Emory-Atlanta

Dalai Lama becomes Emory professor

By DORIE TURNER
Associated Press Writer
Mon Oct 22, 2007

The Dalai Lama bows as he arrives on stage for a conference at Emory University in Atlanta Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. (AP Photo/John
The Dalai Lama was formally installed as a professor at Emory University on Monday as Tibetan monks wearing large moon-shaped, yellow hats chanted and played cymbals, gongs and horns.

The exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, whose face is recognized around the world, now is the bearer of a faculty ID card.