Dalai Lama Dey Celebrate 90th Birthday For Dharamshala, India
Thousands of followers gather for Dharamshala, India, to celebrate as the Dalai Lama mark ein 90th birthday. The spiritual leader, wey be Nobel Peace laureate too, dey live for exile since 1959.
Celebrations and Tributes
Richard Gere, the Hollywood star, join the celebration wey dey include traditional music, dance, and prayers. Gere talk say e be “joyous, joyous day” to celebrate the Dalai Lama ein extraordinary life. E embrace am and kiss ein hand.
Dalai Lama ein Message
The Dalai Lama, wey dey dress for ein traditional robe, talk say e no waste ein life at all. E say e dey live ein life for the service of other sentient beings.
- Thousands gather for the celebration
- Richard Gere join the celebration
- Dalai Lama talk about ein life of service
The celebration cap one week of birthday events, wey the Dalai Lama talk say e plan to reincarnate after ein death. E also say the next Dalai Lama suppose be recognized as per past Buddhist traditions. E dey hope to live until age 130.
Followers from around the world, including hundreds of monks and nuns, brave rain to attend. The head of the democratically elected Tibetan government-in-exile, Penpa Tsering, raise the Tibetan flag as musicians play the Tibetan anthem.
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, wey millions of Tibetan Buddhists dey worship as living manifestations of Chenrezig, the Buddhist god of compassion, be global symbol of peace and resistance.