Concerned over reports of rising substance abuse among young people in Ladakh, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has urged the region’s youth to shun drugs, calling addiction a destructive habit that brings only suffering and describing recovery as an act of courage and determination.
The Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama was on Sunday accorded a grand welcome when he reached Leh for his summer sojourn. He was flown to Leh from New Delhi in an Army aircraft.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday met the Dalai Lama in the national capital to enquire about the 90-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader's health following his recent knee replacement surgery.
Leh is gearing up to welcome the Dalai Lama later this month, with district authorities reviewing elaborate security, traffic, medical and logistical arrangements ahead of his June 28 arrival.
Days after formally receiving his Grammy Award in Dharamshala, the Dalai Lama has travelled to Delhi for medical care and is expected to continue to Ladakh later this month.
Tibetan spiritual leader is scheduled to stay in Delhi for 2-3 days and then he will go to Bodhgya in Bihar for spiritual teachings and other events.
The award, constituted by the Gandhi Mandela Foundation, is in recognition of promoting the values and ideals of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in the interest of global peace and freedom.
Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has greeted Giorgia Meloni on becoming the Prime Minister, Italy's first woman premier.
Tibetans remain bitter about Chinese intervention in the selection 25 years ago of the Panchen Lama, who died in 1989.
Experts have stressed the role of the central government in the Tibetan Buddhism system of reincarnation, saying it's a historical convention that the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama and other living Buddhas is subject to approval of the country's central authority.
