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His Holiness the Dalai Lama joining in Medicine Buddha Prayers organized by Sera Mey Monastery at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, HP, India on June 15, 2025.

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Congratulating the President of India on Her Birthday

June 19, 2025

Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - His Holiness the Dalai Lama has this morning written to the President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu, to offer her his good wishes on her 67th birthday. “As you know, after being forced to flee Tibet following the Tibetan people's uprising against the PRC authorities in March 1959, I have spent the major part of my life in India,” he wrote. “I therefore feel a special closeness to this country. Over and above its being the most populous country in the world, and the largest democracy, India has a vast resource of ancient wisdom.”

Medicine Buddha Prayers

June 15, 2025

Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - This morning, in the sultry pre-monsoon heat, His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove from his residence to the Tsuglagkhang, the main Tibetan Buddhist Temple, in a golfcart. Taking his seat before the throne, he joined several thousand people who had gathered to recite prayers to the Medicine Buddha. The event was organized and led by monks and Lamas of Sera Mé Monastic College and presided over by the Sharpa Chöjé Rinpoché and the Abbot of Sera Mé.

Congratulating the New Prime Minister of Mongolia

June 13, 2025

Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written to Zandanshatar Gombojav to congratulate him on his election as Prime Minister of Mongolia. “I was able to visit your country for the first time in 1979,” His Holiness wrote, “and I have warm memories of that occasion and of the several further visits I have made since then. I am very encouraged by the interest and enthusiasm that Mongolians, young and old, have been showing in promoting human values.”

Congratulating the President of the Republic of Korea

June 5, 2025

Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written to Lee Jae-myung this morning to congratulate him on his victory in the Korean Presidential Election. “Today the world is passing through very challenging times,” he wrote, “even as there is a growing sense of interdependence and the oneness of humanity across the world. A lasting peace in the Korean peninsula is of vital importance to the entire world.”