The Dalai Lama arrived in New York on Sunday, the place he’ll obtain therapy for his knees within the subsequent few days. Hoping to catch a glimpse of the Tibetan non secular chief, scores of followers waited within the sweltering warmth outdoors the Dalai Lama’s lodge in Manhattan. Lots of these ready have been wearing conventional Tibetan clothes, and a few have been performing conventional dances.
The workplace of the Dalai Lama in exile in India introduced earlier this month that the 88-year-old can be receiving “therapy” for his knees in america. No additional particulars have been launched.
Final week, a delegation of US representatives visited the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, which led to robust criticism from China. The go to got here after the US Congress handed a invoice meant to encourage Beijing to renew talks with Tibetan representatives which have been stalled since 2010.
China despatched troops to Tibet in 1950 and to at the present time controls the unbiased area and the neighboring areas, the place many Tibetans additionally dwell, with a heavy hand. On March 10, 1959, Tibetans started a revolt in opposition to the Chinese language residents. It was bloodily crushed by the Folks’s Republic and its non secular chief, the Dalai Lama, who was 23 years outdated on the time, needed to flee.
He stepped down because the political chief of his individuals in 2011 and handed over the baton of secular energy to a democratically elected authorities of some 130,000 Tibetans worldwide.
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2024-06-23 19:22:33
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