Dalai Lama’s greetings to Tibetans on New Year

Dharamsala, February 10

The Dalai Lama, while greeting the Tibetans across the world, thanked them for keeping unflinching faith in his leadership. In a message on the first day of Losar (Tibetan New Year), the Dalai Lama said, “Despite facing great difficulties in exile and living under a powerful Communist Chinese regime, our people, the majority of whom are in Tibet, have remained unscathed while I have been the leader.

Despite undergoing great difficulties in exile and living under a powerful Communist Chinese regime, the faith and aspiration of our people, the majority of whom are in Tibet, have remained undiminished while I have been the leader.”

He said that although the Communist Chinese rulers, after the ‘(so-called) peaceful liberation’, had wished that “we Tibetans forget our religious faith, we have held onto our convictions and our culture even more firmly—this is very good. Today, there is a renewed interest in Buddhism, not only among Tibetans, but even among some Chinese,” he said.