Thursday, November 13, 2008

Dalai Lama to visit Prague in November

Prague - Dalai Lama is to visit Prague again after two years since his last visit. The Tibetan leader has been invited by former president Václav Havel and Forum 2000 foundation.
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is to spend a few days in the country - from 29 November to 2 December.
According to the Forum 2000 spokersperson Filip Šebek, the Dalai Lama will present a teaching titled "Understanding - a Way to Happiness" in Prague's Congress Centre.
"The presentation is to start at 1.30 pm and after that there will be a public talk with the Dalai Lama," said Šebek.
During his visit, the Dalai Lama, one of the world´s most famous spiritual leaders, is to meet Václav Havel and MP Group of Friends of Tibet.
The seventy-three year old Dalai Lama, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize, was supposed to visit the Czech Republic in October this year but owing to his health problems he was forced to cancel his October visit.
The Dalai Lama has been a frequent visitor of the Czech Republic. He first visited the country in February 1990 upon the invitation of former Czechoslovak president Václav Havel.

In 1959 China started to occupy Tibet and the 14th Dalai Lama sought refuge in India. He has been living in Dharamsala, northern India since that time.

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