{"id":39695,"date":"2024-07-06T08:54:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T08:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/dalai-lama-dismisses-health-rumours-on-89th-birthday-dubai-eye-103-8\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T08:54:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T08:54:12","slug":"dalai-lama-dismisses-health-rumours-on-89th-birthday-dubai-eye-103-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=39695","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama dismisses health rumours on 89th birthday &#8211; Dubai Eye 103.8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"aiir-c-news-figure \">\n                <figcaption class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__caption\">AFP \/ Tenzin Sangmo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The Dalai Lama said on Saturday that he is recovering from knee surgery and feels &#8220;physically fit,&#8221; brushing aside rumours of ill health on his 89th birthday.\n        <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recently, I had surgery on my knee, which has given me some problems. However, I am recovering and have no problem at all now,&#8221; the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism said in a video message from the United States, where he is recuperating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There may be people trying to confuse you about my health, saying that the Dalai Lama has gone to a hospital and is undergoing treatments, and so on, making my condition sound grave. You don&#8217;t need to trust such misinformation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A charismatic figure who popularised Buddhism internationally, the Dalai Lama won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for keeping alive the Tibetan cause in exile. He fled to India in 1959, nine years after China sent troops into the Himalayan region in 1950, saying it was liberating Tibetan &#8220;serfs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As the spiritual leader ages and battles health problems, the appointment of his successor has become a looming issue for Tibetans struggling for more autonomy in China or outright independence. Tibetan Buddhists believe that learned monastics are reincarnated after death as newborns.<\/p>\n<p>The Dalai Lama has said he will clarify questions about succession\u2014including whether and where he will be reincarnated\u2014around his 90th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am nearly 90 now, but I don&#8217;t feel unhealthy, except for the slight discomfort in my legs. I would like to thank all my fellow Tibetans in and outside Tibet for your prayers on my birthday,&#8221; he said, adding that some issues are part of ageing.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of Buddhists and well-wishers around the world will gather on Saturday to celebrate and pray for the long life of a leader who represents their strongest hope of an eventual return to Tibet.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dubaieye1038.com\/news\/international\/dalai-lama-dismisses-health-rumours-on-89th-birthday\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP \/ Tenzin Sangmo The Dalai Lama said on Saturday that he is recovering from knee&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[233,234,228,230,178,179,231,229,232],"class_list":["post-39695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uae","tag-89th","tag-birthday","tag-dalai","tag-dismisses","tag-dubai","tag-eye","tag-health","tag-lama","tag-rumours"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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