Religious leaders call for peace.
The convener of the Summit, Bawa Jain described the goal of the Summit as the need to send a strong statement to the heads of state convening for the UN's Millennium Summit, that religious leaders will work to support conflict resolution throughout the world. Religions cannot provide technical solutions to all the world's problems, for that is not their task. But they do offer a moral and spiritual wisdom which illuminates and teaches the transcendent truth of the human person. The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan religious leader, was originally not invited to the Summit because of his consideration as not only a religious, but political leader as well. The Dalai Lama later declined an invitation after much controversy arose and instead sent a seven person delegation headed by Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, head of the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.