ANAHEIM — The Dalai Lama will celebrate his 80th birthday this summer in Southern California.

An announcement Thursday says the official world celebration will be held on July 5 at the 18,000-seat Honda Center in Anaheim.

It will be part of a “Global Compassion Summit” that also includes two days of dialogues, panels and events at UC Irvine.

It’s the Dalai Lama’s first visit to Anaheim and his third to Irvine, which is headquarters for the nonprofit Center for Living Peace.

The center is presenting the event along with the university and the group Friends of the Dalai Lama.

The Dalai Lama is a frequent visitor in the U.S. He has lived in exiled in northern India since fleeing his native Tibet in 1959.