Seriousely, you all guys should take into consideration one aspect of Dalai Lama... No matter what he says, he is not only the spiritual leader of tibetans.. he is also political leader. He is religious political leader. Therefore, his activities is not entirely suitable for a true monk. True monk never act the way he acts. But being a political leader of tibetans, he went there in Rutgers to acccept the phd degree... to propagate himself and Tibet more in teh world. So he has a extra agenda other than spiritual. I have never heard great buddhist monks accepting such a free phd degree. However, there are many other buddhists monks, who actually went to university and earned the degree in thier path to practice biddhism as they entered monasteries in thier early young ages.