America's oldest Buddhist magazine, Shambala Sun (winner of the 2007 Utne Reader Award for Best Spiritual Coverage), came to San Francisco for a special event along with the Asia Society of Northern California that featured the great authors and intellects Paul Ekman and Pico Iyer. The event centered around His Holiness the Dalai Lama, whom both have a wide depth of knowledge and personal experience with—Ekman co-authoring a book with him entitled Emotional Awareness: Overcoming Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion and Iyer recently penning a book on the Dalai Lama, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. I was delighted to meet and interview Pico Iyer during his San Francisco sojourn.