Compassion Comes to Cleveland

Get those white belts and polyester knits out of the closet. The ever-recondite Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche will be appearing in Cleveland, Ohio on New Years' Day.

In what can only be described as a gesture of infinite compassion, the man recognized by the 16th Karmapa,  Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche as an incarnation of Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro will be appearing at the West Shore Unitarian Church, 20401 Hilliard Boulevard, Rocky River, Ohio 44116, from 6 to 8 p.m. on January 1, 2010.

For the benefit of our international readers, this Rocky River place is somewhere between New York and L.A.

We wonder if the people in that place know just how lucky they truly are.