(6 Jul 2025)
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Dharamshala, India – 6 July 2025
1. Wide of Dalai Lama, US actor Richard Gere getting up to make speech, UPSOUND (English) Richard Gere, US actor:
"A joyous, joyous day to celebrate this extraordinary life of his Holiness the Dalai Lama. Also the presence of all the extraordinary people here the spiritual community and all these wonderful diplomats and representatives from around the world come here to pay their respects to one of the most extraordinary people who have ever walked on this planet."
2. Dalai Lama and Gere hugging
3. Various of ceremony
4. Dalai Lama being given cake
5. Dalai Lama at the ceremony
STORYLINE:
The Dalai Lama celebrated his 90th birthday Sunday in the Indian town of Dharamshala alongside celebrities including US actor Richard Gere and thousands of Tibetan Buddhists.
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, has been living in exile since he fled Chinese rule in Tibet in 1959.
Earlier this week, the Nobel Peace Prize winning Buddhist spiritual leader said he plans to reincarnate after his death, ending years of speculation that he might be the last person to hold the role.
He also said that the next Dalai Lama should be found and recognized as per past Buddhist traditions.
On Saturday, the Dalai Lama said he hoped of living for decades more, until the age of 130.
In the past the Dalai Lama has said his successor will be born in the “free world” — outside China.
Many exiled Tibetans, however, fear China will name its own successor to the Dalai Lama to bolster control over Tibet, a territory it poured troops into in 1950 and has ruled ever since.
China, which views the Dalai Lama as a separatist, has repeatedly said that it alone has the authority to approve the next spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
It also says it will reject anyone chosen without Beijing’s consent.
Recognized worldwide in his red robes and wide smile, the Dalai Lama describes himself as a “simple Buddhist monk.”
But millions of Tibetan Buddhists worship him as living manifestations of Chenrezig, the Buddhist god of compassion.
The Dalai Lama was thrust onto the Tibetan throne in 1937.
Soon after, Chinese troops swept into his homeland in the 1950s and crushed a failed uprising, forcing him to escape with thousands of his followers to India where he established a government in exile.
Since then, he has spent more than seven decades in exile and sustained a nation in exile by managing to build a community that’s kept the Tibetan culture and identity alive.
The Dalai Lama has also become one of the world’s most recognizable figures while leading a Tibetan diaspora through their struggle for autonomy and opposition of China’s control of Tibet.
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