Dalai Lama on his 74th birthday: My life has not been wasted
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Dalai Lama on his 74th birthday: My life has not been wasted
(NECN/AP) - The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, celebrated his 74th birthday today in a typically jocular mood, remarking light-heartedly that the prayers being said for him by his followers might help him live at least 100 years. Hundreds of Tibetan exiles and Indian Buddhists chanted prayers and sang songs in the Indian capital New Delhi to mark his birthday amid worries about the aging spiritual leader's successor. The occasion also marks his 50th year in exile in India, having fled Tibet following a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule over the Himalayan read more
NECN | July 6, 2009
