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Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Buddhist Tibetan, aged 90 on Sunday after one week of celebration.
Thousands of worshipers from all over the world have traveled to Dharamshala, the small town of India at the Himalayan foot where Dalai Lama Life, to mark the opportunity.
This includes old followers and Hollywood stars Richard Gere, who will speak during the celebration for Nobel winners, who are considered one of the most influential religious leaders in the world and worshiped by millions of Tibet Buddhists as manifestations of the life of Chenrezig, a Buddhist god of compassion.
Actor Richard Gere attended the event on June 30 before the Dalai Lama’s birthday. PIC: AP/Ashwini Bhatia
The worshipers waited in the rain for the arrival of the Dalai Lama at an event that celebrated his birthday. PIC: AP/Ashwini Bhatia
Hundreds of Bhikkhu and monks in red robes dare to endlessly rain on Sundays when they poured through the narrow streets of Dharamshala to the Main Dalai Temple, where spiritual leaders will hold a speech.
The event for the Dalai Lama’s birthday began on Monday, which marked his 90th birthday on the Tibet Calendar, six days before his birthday at the Gregorian calendar on Sunday.
On Saturday, Dalai Lama said he hoped to live more for decades, until the age of 130 years.
Tenzin Gyatso, who became the 14th Dalai Lama’s reincarnation in 1940, fled from Tibetas his original in 1959 after a failed rebellion against the Chinese government and shelter in India, along with hundreds of thousands of Tibetan people.
Dalai Lama, Middle, greet people when he arrived at an event the day before his 90th birthday. PIC: AP/Ashwini Bhatia
The worshipers watched the spiritual leader of Tibetal The Dalai Lama on the TV screen on an event on Saturday. PIC: AP/Ashwini Bhatia
Tibetan waste people pray for long life long dalai, the day before the 90th birthday. PIC: AP/Ashwini Bhatia
China Has labeled Lama Dalai as a separatist and has tried to bring back the Tibetan Buddhism under its control.
During his celebration week, the Dalai Lama explicitly said he would have a successor after his death, ending for years speculation about whether he would be the last spiritual leader of Tibet.
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He swiped China again by saying the next old Dalai must be found in line with the Buddhist tradition, indicating that China must stay away from the process of identifying its successor, but Beijing said that succession must be approved by its leaders.
Trying to fight the resurrection of China, the US has asked Beijing to stop interfering in the old dalai succession and other Tibet Buddhist Lamas.
