March 21, 2008 Dalai Lama in Delhi
for Buddhist Discourses
New Delhi
The Dalai Lama arrived in New Delhi Friday evening for a week of
Buddhist discourses, hours after a group of Tibetan youth managed to
scale the Chinese embassy compound wall here to protest Beijing's
crackdown in Lhasa.
The Dalai Lama reached New Delhi around 7.30 Friday evening and will
stay at the Ashoka Hotel. "His holiness the Dalai Lama will be in
the capital March 22-29 to give a teaching on Buddhist philosophy.
This has been planned since last year," Kalsang Yudon, secretary of
the Dalai Lama, told IANS.
She added that he has no plans to meet members of the press or issue
any statements during his stay. To a query if the Dalai Lama had
heard about protesting Tibetan youth entering the Chinese embassy,
she said, "I don't know."
The Dalai Lama, who has been living in exile in Dharamsala, Himachal
Pradesh, since 1959, will meet Vice-President Hamid Ansari. This was
revealed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who stressed
that India has always recognized the Tibetan Autonomous Region as
part of China.
"India's one-China policy remains unchanged. There is no review of
that," Mukherjee said.
Earlier, the Tibetan spiritual head who favours autonomy for Tibet
met US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Dharamsala,
the seat of the Tibetan government-in exile. Pelosi extended her
support for the Tibetan cause and called for an international
independent inquiry into Chinese allegations that the Dalai Lama was
behind the Lhasa riots.
In New Delhi, the Dalai Lama will speak on meditation and chapters
of Buddhist philosophy such as wisdom teaching.
"His teachings, which will be held everyday for four hours, will be
attended by more than 150 people. All the people had registered
themselves last year," Yudon said.
The 73-year-old leader, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, this
week threatened to resign as the head of the Tibetan
government-in-exile if the Chinese crackdown on ethnic Tibetan
protesters in Lhasa escalated.
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