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DHARAMSALA, 14 July: The Tibetan Community of France has announced a silent march to protest against the murder of a Tibetan youth who works at a Chinese-owned restaurant at Saint-Léonard in northern France.

DHARAMSALA, 12 July: The Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) has held a mass prayer service to condole the demise of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who was fatally shot during a campaign speech in western Japan on Friday.

DHARAMSALA, 11 July: The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama reaffirmed to live for at least a decade or two more years as he attended a long-life prayer offering (tenshug) at Tsuglag-khang, the main temple here in Mcleod Ganj on Sunday.

DHARAMSALA, 8 July: India has dismissed China’s criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for wishing the Dalai Lama on his 87th birthday declaring that the Tibetan spiritual leader is an honoured guest of India.

DHARAMSALA, 7 July: A Tibetan-Canadian has thrown her hat into the ring for the election of the City Council of Parkdale High Park, Canada.

DHARAMSALA, 6 July: The Forest Minister of Himachal Pradesh today said that India stands with Tibetans and supports Tibet’s fight for independence drawing applauds and cheers from hundreds of Tibetans, as well as foreigners and Indian followers of the Tibetan spiritual leader, who congregated for the official celebration of His Holiness’ 87th birthday.

6 July 2022.

Today, the 7th day of the 5thmonth in the Water-Tiger Tibetan Royal Year 2149, which falls in the 17th Tibetan Royal Sexantry, and which corresponds to the 6thday of July 2022, is a momentous day of utmost auspiciousness. This day marks the birth in 1935 of His Holiness the Great 14th Dalai Lama;the ultimate refuge without equal of all sentient beings that include the beings in the heavenly realms; the master of the entire corpus of Buddhist teachings extant on this earth;the destined deity of all sentient beings of the Snowland of Tibet in whichever part of the plateau region they may have scattered to flower;the miracle emanation of the lotus-holding, most exalted bodhisattva in the form of a Buddhist monk who is in full perseverance to observe His sacred vows as such; the spiritual lord of the three world realms;a great champion of peace in this world;and the unsurpassable leader and guiding light of the entire people of Tibet. With a prior offering of prostrations to His Holiness on this most auspicious occasion of His birthday, I on behalf of the collective of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile offer Him my congratulatory greetings with heartfelt feelings of devotion, reverence, and gratification.

6 July 2022.

On this auspicious occasion of the eighty-seventh birthday celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Kashag – on behalf of the Tibetan people inside and outside Tibet – would like to pay our deep respect by offering warm greetings to His Holiness, and pray that His Holiness remain as the epitome of the well-being of all sentient beings for aeons to come.