Obama, Dalai Lama To Attend Prayer Breakfast

WASHINGTON — President Obama and the Dalai Lama will be at the National Prayer Breakfast next week in Washington, the first time the two men have been together in nearly a year. While the president and the Tibetan spiritual leader could have a chance encounter at the event Thursday, the White House played down any official engagement between the two. “As he has done in the past, the president will see many religious leaders at the event, but we don’t have any specific meeting with the Dalai Lama to announce,” National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said Friday. The Dalai Lama does not have a speaking role at the prayer breakfast and will be seated with the audience.