Tibetan Felicitates His Holiness the Dalai Lamas Dear Friend Archbishop Tutu

DHARAMSHALA(Tibet.net) The Tibetan and Indian community in Dharamsala felicitated South Africas Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a close and good friend of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, at a public ceremony in ...

DHARAMSHALA(Tibet.net) The Tibetan and Indian community in
Dharamsala felicitated South Africas Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop
Desmond Tutu, a close and good friend of His Holiness the Dalai
Lama, at a public ceremony in Dharamsala this morning.His Holiness
the Dalai Lama welcomed Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Kangra
Airport in the morning.I welcome a great person today. He is a great
and world renowned personality. His contributions are not limited to
one scope or in just one field. His greatness is accumulated as a
result of a lifelong effort to create happiness and well being for
others, His Holiness the Dalai Lama said in his welcome address.He
is a person who strongly advocates the importance of love,
compassion and equality. Even in his own country South Africa, he
along with Nelson Mandela, have worked wholeheartedly through non
violence for equal rights and genuine democracy in their country,
His Holiness said.The most important thing is that, even after the
victory of democracy and equal rights in his country, uneasy
feelings of animosity and ill will have remained within people.
Archbishop Tutu has made special efforts to reconcile the people,
and remove the feelings of unease and ill will towards each other.
Reconciliation is very important because what happens is that
sometimes after a problem is solved, feelings of ill will and hatred
still remain. These hidden feelings of hatred may create problems
later in time. So the reconciliation efforts made by Archbishop Tutu
is very essential and significant.His Holiness the Dalai Lama
appealed to his fellow Nobel Laureate to pray for the cause of
Tibet. Tibetans are passing through a difficult period. Our
sophisticated and compassionate nature of Tibetan culture is really
facing a lot of difficulty. So please mention these in you daily
prayers, His Holiness said.Presenting a stupa as a memento to
Archbishop Tutu, His Holiness said in the citation In recognition
of your exemplary contribution to justice, equality, non violence,
conflict resolution and reconciliation, I present to you this stupa,
a Tibetan Choeten, symbol of wisdom and compassion with my prayers
that your good work may continue for many years to come.In his
address, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said I want to say to Chinese
government that His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the most peace loving
person on this earth. I want to say to Chinese government that His
Holiness the Dalai Lama has no army, he cannot command his people
with guns, he is not a separatist.Please, you leaders in Beijing,
please we beg you, allow Tibet to be what the Constitution of the
Peoples Republic of China commits. The Constitution allows for
autonomy and that is all His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his people
want.We beg you and at the same time remind you too that this is a
moral universe. There is no way in which injustice, oppression, and
evil can ever have the last word, Archbishop Tutu said in his
message to the Chinese leadership.To the Tibetan people, he said We
will visit you in Tibet. We will enter a free Tibet.The entire
Central Tibetan Administration headed by Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang
Sangay attended the felicitation ceremony. A colouful cultural
performance was also presented to welcome Archbishop Tutu on his
first visit to Dharamsala.