The Path of the Dalai Lama: a live talk with Manuel Bauer

Decades of sustained access give Bauer’s photographs a personal perspective, connecting the everyday moments of a spiritual leader’s life with wider questions of compassion and responsibility.

See the Dalai Lama’s world through the eyes of a photographer who has accompanied him since 1990. In Basel, Manuel Bauer shares photographs and first-hand accounts from private moments and more than 50 journeys around the globe. His live multimedia talk brings Tibet’s history into conversation with Buddhist traditions, secular ethics and compassion.

Bauer follows the Dalai Lama’s flight to India, visits to Tibetan refugee communities and encounters across the world. His photographs also explore meditation and tantric rituals within Tibetan Buddhism, alongside the political challenges of exile. Messages about inner peace and peace in the world form the heart of the talk. Manuel Bauer presents; the Dalai Lama is the subject of his photographs and stories.

Doors open 45 minutes before the talk. Seat categories cost CHF 26 for reduced-price seats, CHF 32 for regular seats and CHF 37 for best seats. Book the Basel performance through Explora; Transa and Globetrotter also sell tickets. A cash-only box office is available subject to remaining seats. The venue is Volkshaus, Rebgasse 12/14, Basel.

• Manuel Bauer

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  Manuel Bauer is a Swiss photographer who has accompanied the Dalai Lama since 1990. His live photographic talk draws on private moments and more than 50 journeys.

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