Dalai Lama Congratulates PM Modi on His Birthday, Expresses Gratitude to India
By Yangchen Lhamu
DHARAMSALA, 17 Sept: Marking a special occasion, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, has extended heartfelt birthday wishes to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, expressing immense gratitude for India’s support to the Tibetan community and wishing him success and good health as the latter turned 74 today.
“With its age-old traditions of ‘Ahimsa’ and ‘Karuna’, India sets an example to the world. Moreover, its growing international influence, in addition to being a robust democracy, means that India has an important contribution to make to peace and dialogue in our increasingly interdependent world,” the Tibetan Nobel Peace Laureate said in a missive addressed to PM Modi.
“As ever, I would like to take this opportunity to express immense gratitude to the Government and people of India for the generous assistance and hospitality provided to me and Tibetans in exile for more than 65 years,” the Dalai Lama wrote.
The octogenarian Tibetan leader concluded by wishing India’s PM good health and success in realizing the hopes and aspirations of the people of this great and ancient country and in contributing to the creation of a more compassionate, peaceful world.
The Tibetan spiritual leader and PM Modi have exchanged birthday wishes of late, and he joins a long list of global leaders, diplomats, and Indian politicians who extended their greetings to the PM as he celebrated his 74th birthday by inaugurating 26 lakh houses built under PM Awas Yojana at Gadakana in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar, along with a series of planned events.
