MADISON, Wis. - The Dalai Lama's three-day visit to Wisconsin raised $503,000 for the local Buddhist group sponsoring it.

Penny Paster, who organized the trip for the Deer Park Buddhist Center and Monastery in Dunn, said the group would use the money from ticket sales and donations to help charities around the world.

"We have a very large list of (places) where we want to donate that money," Paster said.

She said about $200,000 would be sent to the Dalai Lama's schools and monasteries in India. The rest will go to health-related charities and social causes.

The trip was the Dalai Lama's sixth to the Madison area since 1979. He visited the $6 million temple at the Deer Park Buddhist Center last week and spoke to about 12,000 people at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday.

The 71-year-old spiritual and political leader fled Tibet in 1959 after the Chinese quelled a popular uprising. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.