NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Tibetans’ non secular chief, the Dalai Lama, will journey to the US this month to bear medical therapy for his knees and won’t maintain his ordinary public engagements from June 20, his workplace mentioned on Monday.
The 88-year-old non secular chief was suggested towards any journey final October following a bout of flu, however after restoration he visited Bodhgaya, one of many holiest Buddhist websites in jap India, in January.
“His Holiness the Dalai Lama is scheduled to travel to the United States for medical treatment on his knees. Upon his return, regular engagements will resume,” his workplace mentioned in a press release.
It didn’t point out when he would return to Dharamshala, a city within the northern Indian Himalayas the place he lives in a compound subsequent to a temple ringed by inexperienced hills and snow-capped mountains.
The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after a failed rebellion towards Chinese language rule in Tibet and is regarded by Beijing as a harmful separatist.
He has labored for many years to attract world help for linguistic and cultural autonomy in his distant, mountainous homeland.
