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Tibetans pray for Dalai Lama's upcoming Arunachal visit | Tibetans living in exile in Dharamshala on Tuesday prayed for the success of Dalai Lama's impending visit to Arunachal Pradesh. Although the annual ritual of prayers is
dedicated for highest Buddhist leader's health and well being, but this year a
large number of monks and nuns from various monasteries have assembled at the
Theckchen Choelling Tsuglag Khang monastery to wish the Dalai Lama a good luck
for his upcoming visit to the north-eastern state. "This is a Mahaguru Puja (worship
dedicated to the highest teacher), it's the Padma Sambhava Puja (worship of Sambhava)
and here mainly for the long life of His Holiness Dalai Lama and also for his
visit to Arunachal Pradesh and his coming visits to Europe and America," said
Tenzin, a monk. The Dalai Lama, in the month of November, is scheduled to visit
Tawang, one of the last vestiges of Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism and a major cause
of tension over the decades-old border dispute between India and China. China
says Tawang, located in Arunachal Pradesh, once belonged to Tibet as such India
should hand it back to help settle the border row between the two Asian giants.
China also doesn't recognise Arunachal Pradesh as a part of India and it has opposed
the Dalai Lama's proposed visit to Tawang. Dalai Lama will open a modern hospital
in Tawang. Buddhist devotees in Tawang and surrounding places have begun donating
gold, silver as well as in cash and kind to Buddhist monasteries, which they wish
to dedicate to their spiritual leader. This will be the Dalai Lama's fifth trip
to Arunachal Pradesh since he entered India in 1959 after escaping from Tibet
through Tawang. |
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