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Meeting in Map Room
Dalai Lama is in Washington for a 11-day Buddhist ritual and celebrated his birthday in the American capital earlier this week.
The president will receive him in the White House’s Map Room, not in the Oval Office, where the heads of state are received, in hopes to keep a low-key approach on the visit.
In February 2010, the Chinese leaders were very upset at the meeting of the Dalai Lama with the president, given that the Dalai Lama is considered by Beijing a security risk, because, in their opinion, he is pushing for independence of Tibet.
Lhasa, Capital of Tibet
Dalai Lama visit to the United States is the first one since he relinquished political responsibilities and transferred them to the government of Tibet in exile. He said that after this action, he felt freer to pursue his religious function as spiritual leader of the Tibetans.
The idea came as a surprise for many and meant the termination of a 4-century tradition of the Dalai Lama holding both political and spiritual reins of the nation.
It would seem that his ideas of change run deeper than the mere political aspect. Thus, he launched the idea that the next Dalai Lama could be a woman, and even that his election could be different, resembling that of the popes in Rome or of the political leaders.
Dalai Lama has been in exile since 1959, when the People’s Republic of China annexed Tibet and included it in the Communist republic. Since then, he lived in India and the Western countries and militated in favor of preserving the cultural legacy of his people, and of a certain degree of autonomy for Tibet.
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