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Dalai Lama donates spectacles to Nobel Museum in visit to Sweden
Apr 15, 2011, 11:16 GMT
Stockholm - The Tiberan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday donated a pair of his spectacles to the Nobel Museum in Stockholm as part of a three-day visit to Sweden.
The 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner - who also signed a chair in the museum cafe, a tradition visiting Nobel laureates are asked to perform - later spoke at at Sodertorn University, just south of Stockholm.
The 21st century should be 'a century of dialogue,' he told students, and repeated that the Tibetan struggle was 'fully committed to non-violence' and that the Tibetan people 'were not seeking separation from the People's Republic of China' but rather autonomy.
On his arrival late Thursday, he told reporters that he had 'voluntarily, happily and proudly' ended a four-century-old tradition that the Dalai Lama should also be political leader.
In March, he announced his retirement as the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
Concerning China, the Buddhist leader said he saw signs of change and hoped one day to return to Tibet which he fled in 1959 after a failed uprising.
'Things are changing, we are hopeful, although at government level some hardliners still describe me as a demon,' the Dalai Lama said.
It was the 10th visit by the 75-year-old Dalai Lama to Sweden. He was invited by the Swedish aid organization IM, founded in 1938.
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