Geshe Tashi Tsering, representing Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, delivers his speech during the Day of Prayer for Peace in the World ceremony in the square of Assisi's Lower Basilica of St. Francis, central Italy, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2002. Imams, patriarchs, monks and rabbis from around the world joined Pope John Paul II on Thursday to pray for peace in a ceremony designed to proclaim that religion must never be used to justify violence. (AP Photo/Pier
The guy is giving a SPEECH and he is not praying!! Look at all those folks in back of him...do they look as if they are praying?? NOPE!! Most of them are probably reading a translation of the guys speech...a couple are NOT even doing that they are looking right AT him.