Tibetans in Lhasa honour Dalai Lama on birthday, but furtively
Source: Tibet Sun
“In my heart,” the sunburnt Tibetan said of his plans to observe the Dalai Lama’s 81st birthday before quietly fading into a crowd of tourists and believers heading into the Sera monastery outside Lhasa on Wednesday morning.
Elsewhere in the city, the Dharamshala-based spiritual leader’s birthday wasn’t celebrated with any kind of fervour. Furtively would probably be a more appropriate word to describe how Tibetans marked the occasion across the Tibet Autonomous Region and especially in the capital Lhasa.
The Communist Party of China (CPC)-led government forbids any public celebration of the birthday of the Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959 following a revolt in the remote region.
At Potala Palace, which was the Dalai Lama’s erstwhile residence, things appeared normal with visitors crowding the 13-storey world heritage structure and military-trained firefighters keeping a close watch on them. The government has branded the internationally revered monk as a “splittist” and a “wolf in monk”s robes”.
Read more: https://www.tibetsun.com/news/2016/07/07/tibetans-in-lhasa-honour-dalai-lama-on-birthday-but-furtively
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