Profile of Dalai Lama, ahead of his 86th birthday

Record ID: 1958194

  • Title: Profile of Dalai Lama, ahead of his 86th birthday
  • Date: 27th June 2021
  • Summary: Tibet's largest anti-China demonstrations in two decades broke out in March 2008, sparking riots in Lhasa and nearby ethnic Tibetan provinces. China accused the Dalai Lama and his allies of orchestrating the monk-led protests with a view to disrupt the Beijing Olympic Games. The Dalai Lama denied involvement and reiterated his calls for greater autonomy rather than indepen
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    Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will turn 86 on July 6.
    Born Lhamo Thondup, the Dalai Lama was just two years old when identified by a search party as the new incarnation of Tibet's most important spiritual leader, and was whisked from the family home to live in Lhasa. He was officially enthroned in February 1940.
    The Dalai Lama, who fled to India in early 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, lives in exile in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamshala.
    The spiritual leader was faced with a health scare in April of 2019 and was admitted to a hospital in the Indian capital of New Delhi with a chest infection, but later reassured his followers of a full recovery.
    Many of the up to 100,000 Tibetans living in India are worried that their fight for a genuinely autonomous homeland would end with the Dalai Lama.
    China, which took control of Tibet in 1950, brands the Nobel peace laureate a dangerous separatist and has said its leaders have the right to approve the Dalai Lama's successor, as a legacy inherited from China's emperors.
    But many Tibetans - whose tradition holds that the soul of a senior Buddhist monk is reincarnated in the body of a child on his death - suspect any Chinese role as a ploy to exert influence on the community.
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