text: Although Dr. Dog’s newest songs certainly played out well live, the 3000+ people in attendance erupted during their encore, which was heavily laden with older material that included “Stranger”, “The Breeze”, and “Oh No”.
  
  The Washington Post, December 3, 2016 - Every president since George H.W. Bush has met with the Dalai Lama several times during their time in the White House.
  The encounters tend to be warm, friendly and laden with praise for the Dalai Lama’s attempts at dialogue with the Chinese government, which has long accused the holy man of seeking to sever Tibet from China.
  Whether Trump will carry on that tradition remains to be seen. But the Dalai Lama said he plans on visiting Trump sometime after his January 20 inauguration.
  Long reticent about Donald Trump, the Dalai Lama made his most revealing remarks yet about the president-elect, saying he has “no worries” about Trump occupying the Oval Office. During a four-day visit to Mongolia, he told reporters he was not concerned about statements Trump made on the campaign trail and expected him to be more restrained in office, The Associated Press reported.
  “I feel during the election, the candidate has more freedom to express. Now once they are elected, having the responsibility, then they have to carry their cooperation, their work, according to reality,” the Dalai Lama said. “So I have no worries.”
  The Dalai Lama’s trips to the United States always draw intense, often hyperbolic criticism from Chinese officials, who have called the religious leader a “devil” and at various points have threatened that his visits would “seriously damage” U.S.-China relations. The Chinese government made similar statements about his trip to Mongolia last week, demanding that its northern neighbor bar him from entering and accusing him of engaging in “splitting China activities.”
  The Dalai Lama has said he has not publicly advocated Tibetan independence since the mid-1970s, arguing instead that the Chinese government grant the predominantly Buddhist region greater autonomy, cultural protections and religious freedom.
  The White House, never failing to call China’s bluff, has long welcomed the Dalai Lama with open arms.