Dalai Lama hopes to live up to 100 years

The spiritual leader of Tibet Dalai Lama XIV celebrated his 74th birthday on the eve of his 74th birthday. Turning to believers who came to congratulate him in New Delhi, the Dalai Lama expressed the hope that the prayers of Buddhists around the world will help him live for at least 100 years, the Blagovers-info reports with reference to AP .

Hundreds of Tibetan refugees have gathered to celebrate the birthday of their leader both in the Indian capital, where the Dalai Lama arrived on this day, and in Dharamsal - the city in the north of India, where the Tibetan leader in exile has been living for half a century. As AP notes, the Dalai Lama for the 50th time celebrates his birthday outside Tibet.

The future Dalai Lama XIV was born in 1935 in a family of farmers from the village of Takzer. At birth, he was given the name Lhamo Dhondruub. According to the free encyclopedia , the predecessor of the current leader of the Buddhists, the Dalai Lama XIII, visited the so-chief in 1909 and said that he would like to return there. After his death, the lamas from Lhasa came to the village to find a new embodiment of the Tibetan leader. After special tests, the two -year -old Lhamo Dhondruub was recognized by the new reincarnation, which later received the name Agwan Lobsan Tenjin Gyatzo. In 1940, its intronization took place as spiritual, and 10 years later - as the political leader of Tibet. After the Chinese invasion of Tibet, the Dalai Lama XIV tried to coexist peacefully with the new administration, but after the suppression of the uprising in 1959 he was forced to flee to India.

While in Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama continued to lead the government in exile, but after he decided to abandon the political power - in 2001 the first democratic elections of the new Tibetan government in exile were held. In his interviews, the Buddhist leader emphasizes that the future incarnations of the Dalai Lama will be only the spiritual leaders of Tibet. He also does not exclude that the Dalai-Lama Institute can be abolished altogether.