Cheryl Crosby, a New York Buddhist practitioner, proposed Chan to go to Dharamshala in India, where they arrived in March 1972.

In 1984, Chan made his first visit there, traveling 42,000 kilometers by foot, horse, yak, coracle, truck and bus.

[7] Professor Michael Aris wrote that this is the most detailed and comprehensive guide to Tibet, a landmark work of a worthy successor of the great explorers of the nineteenth century.

[9] Victor Chan has recorded hundreds of hours in the company of the Dalai Lama, following him in his travels around the world for conferences and Buddhist ceremonies, and realized dozens of daily interviews at his residence in Dharamsala, India, observing, discussing with him[8] and witnessing private audiences granted to personalities.

Two other Nobel laureates, Desmond Tutu, a longtime friend of the Dalai Lama, and Shirin Ebadi, gave each a conference.

Václav Havel, another longtime friend of the Dalai Lama initially invited, canceled his visit at the last minute due to medical reason.

[5] Paul Ekman, who attended the event in the public reports that Dr. Jo-Ann Archibald, Indian North America, and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi also pronounced a speech.

[12] Pico Iyer, who attended the conference as a journalist, wrote a detailed account of it in his book The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

[5] With Pitman B. Potter, Victor Chan founded a Tibetan studies program.,[2][7] Apart from the Dalai Lama to Vancouver three times in 2004, 2006, and 2009,[2] he also invited celebrities such as Desmond Tutu, Matthieu Ricard, Mia Farrow, Jane Goodall, Peter Buffett, Daniel Goleman, Daniel J. Siegel, Ela Bhatt, Shirin Ebadi, Karen Armstrong, Stephen Covey, Kim Campbell, le Blue Man Group, Maria Shriver, Michaelle Jean, Ken Robinson, Murray Gell-Mann, Mary Robinson, Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire, Robert Putnam, Reginald Ray and Bob Geldof[15] Victor Chan founded the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education in Vancouver in 2005.