Dalai Lama celebrates 80th birthday with California summit

“With domestic and global challenges calling for newfound cooperation, we look for inspiration from His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a tireless advocate for compassionate action for our shared humanity”, Michael Trainer, Founder of the Peak Mind Foundation said of hosting the event.

China has contrast the Dalai Lama’s incredibly reality given that concerns him brilliant users becoming a warning towards the nation.

“Our unique brains are capable of many good things: compassion, tolerance, forgiveness, love”, he said.

“I’m just one human being”.

The Dalai Lama assumed political power over Tibet in 1950 but fled to India, where he lives as a refugee, in 1959 following the Tibetan uprising.

He retired in 2011 as the head of state for the Tibetan government-in-exile. Adding further, “His Holiness believes not only do we inherently possess the potential for compassion, but that the basic nature of human beings is gentleness”.

As HH Dalai Lama says: “Be kind whenever possible”.

The Dalai Lama has gained a wide following in Western countries, with celebrities such as actor Richard Gere and the late Adam Yauch, also known as MCA in pioneering hip-hop band Beastie Boys, publicly declaring support for the spiritual leader. The Dalai Lama said the Constitution was a result of his belief that Tibet should have a democratic form of governance. Ex- President George W. Bush and ex- first lady Laura Bush were in the audience.

Letters between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese commander in Tibet, broadcast by Peking radio and reprinted in the Manchester Guardian, reveal a leader treading the fine line of diplomacy; China, for their part, initially accused a “reactionary, traitorous clique” of abducting him.

After Wednesday’s event, Shivam Khanna, a senior at SMU, called the Dalai Lama’s message unbelievable.

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