6 July : Forced to plee his country 51 years ago, His Holiness the Dalai Lama turned 75 on Tuesday, a milestone marked by celebrations in his hometown-in-exile.
The Tibetan spiritual leader will address a crowd of 5,000 followers at his temple in McLeod Ganj, a hill station in Himachal Pradesh, where he has lived since fleeing Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
In apparently fine health, the Buddhist spiritual leader will break with recent birthday tradition and greet well-wishers in person.
“This time, as it’s his 75th birthday, he also wanted to join the function,” said Tashi Norbu, an official in the Tibetan government-in-exile based in nearby Dharamshala.
While decades of on-off negotiations with Beijing have seen no tangible progress, the Nobel peace laureate has been extremely successful in keeping the Tibet issue alive with a campaign that continues to attract global sympathy.
My Suggestion to-
Spiritual Buddhist Leader-Dalai Lama
The Chinese leaders have opened the ‘World Buddhist Forum in Tibet. I think this will be the great chance for Buddhists as well as the spiritual great Buddhist-leader Dalai Lama to plead the Buddhist philosophy. We, Nepalese people respect the Holiness of Dalai Lama. We request Dalai Lama to go China as a strong spiritual leader to establish Buddha’s regime in Tibet. Then, all the people in the world support His contribution. We should have to convince about the Communist regime. The Communists never follow the spiritual path. We should have to use the religious design diplomatically. ‘Where there is a will, there is a way.’
Thank you.
Dirgha Raj Prasai
Political Analyst.
Kathmandu,Nepal