Dalai Lama Turns 78; Tibetans In India Celebrate [1]

Huffington Post 07/06/13 07:12 AM ET EDT

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greets his followers at the Buddhist cultural school in Salugara on the outskirts of Siliguri on March 28, 2013. The Dalai Lama expressed his sorrow for the self immolation protests going on in Tibet while speaking to journalists on his second day of a three day visit in Salugara, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal after an inauguration ceremony of a 130 foot Lord Buddha statue at Buddha Park. AFP PHOTO/Diptendu DUTTA (Photo credit should

BYLAKUPPE, India -- Thousands of Tibetans waved banners and danced and schoolchildren sang prayers Saturday at a Tibetan university in southern India in celebration of the Dalai Lama's 78th birthday.

Speaking after an interfaith meeting, the Tibetans' spiritual leader called for love and compassion to promote world peace.

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