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Dalai Lama to hold public prayer in Tokyo for quake victims
Apr 28, 2011, 5:01 GMT
New Delhi - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is scheduled to hold a public prayer in Tokyo Friday for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, an aide said.
'Friday is the 49th and last day of mourning for the dead according to Buddhist traditions and the Dalai Lama will hold a public prayer in the memory of all the victims of the terrible disaster,' the Buddhist leader's spokesman Chhime Rigzing said Thursday.
The Dali Lama had left for Japan where he would be stopping briefly before going to the United States for a series of lectures at universities over a period of two weeks, Rigzing added.
Earlier this year the 75-year-old Dalai Lama announced that he would be resigning from political responsibilities and focusing on spiritual matters.
The Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in India, has for over three decades led a movement for greater freedom for Tibetans living in the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China.
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