His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will address graduates and their families as the keynote speaker at the UC San Diego All Campus Commencement on June 17, 2017. He will share “The Value of Education, Ethics and Compassion for the Well-Being of Self and Others” with an estimated 25,000 attendees on the campus’s RIMAC Field.
UC San Diego All Campus Commencement
Procession of Graduates: 8 a.m.
Ceremony: 9–10:30 a.m.
Location: RIMAC Field
Keynote address by His Holiness the 14th Dalai LamaThe Value of Education, Ethics and Compassion for the Well-Being of Self and Others
In addition to being the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, His Holiness has dedicated his life to offering contemplative dialogues on the subject matters of science and Buddhism, education and secular ethics, compassion and universal responsibility, as well as ethics in the fields of environmental sustainability, global warming and leadership.
Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla will officially confer degrees by academic division upon graduates gathered as one student body.
UC San Diego is the first stop on the Dalai Lama’s 2017 U.S. tour, presented in partnership with The Friends of the Dalai Lama Foundation.