Dalai Lama Arrives In U.S.
(AFP) - Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrived in the United States Thursday on his first foreign trip since China’s crackdown on protests in the Himalayan territory that drew a global outcry.
“The Dalai Lama has arrived here,” one of his aides in the western coastal city of Seattle, in Washington state, said as the 72-year-old saffron-clad leader flew in after a brief stopover in Japan.
The Dalai Lama, who has a large international following, will participate in a five-day lecture series on spirituality in Seattle and then travel to Michigan and New York for similar events, aides said.
He had said that his nearly two-week trip to the United States was “not political.”
Tibet last month saw the biggest protests in years against China’s controversial rule on the anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising that sent the Dalai Lama fleeing into exile in India.
Beijing has accused the Nobel peace laureate of instigating the deadly violence and of seeking to split the predominantly Buddhist territory from China.
The Dalai Lama has repeatedly said he was only pursuing “meaningful” Tibetan autonomy and cultural freedoms within China — and that he supports the right of Beijing to host the Olympics in August.
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The Dalai Lama is here … and the Pope will be coming very soon too …
I’m heading over to space.com to see if the planets are about to ‘line up’ …
April 10th, 2008 at 11:20 amwhat will the grand finale be i wonder. it will be hard to top this guest list
April 10th, 2008 at 12:03 pm“The Dalai Lama has arrived here.”
Ahhhh. That would explain why my inner-self is now one with my outer-being. But it doesn’t explain why Pelosi is still acting like a bitch. Hello Dalai…
April 10th, 2008 at 2:00 pmI feel sorry for the dude and his oppressed, occupied fucked up country, but seriously, that pacifist Buddist stuff isnt going to help you much with the ChiCom.
April 10th, 2008 at 2:44 pm