Ladakh Buddhist Association writes to PM Modi; recommends Bharat Ratna for Dalai Lama

Lakh Buddhist Association on Thursday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, recommending him to confer highest civilian award Bharat Ratna, to 14th Dalai Lama. Lakh Buddhist Association said that revered monk is  "truest ambassor of peace and harmony" and has done an ermous amount of interfaith network throughout world for fostering tolerance, altruism, love, compassion and religious harmony.

"As a holy goodwill ambassor of India, Dalai Lama has promoted India s a living example of world’s greatest civilizations that has Ahimsa (n-violence) and Karuna (compassion) as guiding principles. His Holiness has immense contributions in creating goodwill for India in last six deces and citizens of country also ackwledge this and maintain high regards to Dalai Lama. He, refore, truly deserves to be conferred Bharat Ratna," letter to PM Modi re.

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Here is association's letter to PM Modi

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offer to award Bharat Ratna to Dalai Lama has been considered at highest levels of government. A section within Indian ministration is in favour of considering move, particularly in view of China’s ongoing aggression along Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Lakh. However, such a move by India would invite risk and trigger a strong response from China.

Earlier in July, BJP’s Kangra MP Kishan Kapoor h also urged Centre to confer Bharat Ratna on Dalai Lama and called for freedom of Tibet from China. highest civilian order will be best gift from Union government to Tibetan spiritual leer on his 85th birthday (July 6, 2020), he said.

“It is a matter of great fortune for people of state, especially people of my constituency, that Dalai Lama, after exile from Tibet, settled in McLeodganj,” he said.

Dalai Lama has been residing in India ever since he fled Potala Palace in Lhasa in March 1959, to escape Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which h n occupied Tibet.

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Several voices seeking Bharat Ratna for Dalai Lama

demand for conferring Bharat Ratna on Dalai Lama has been me by several people before. Shanta Kumar, a senior BJP leer and former CM of Himachal Presh, h in April 2019 submitted to Union Government a letter signed by MPs of several political parties, supporting Bharat Ratna for Dalai Lama. Former foreign secretary Nirupama Rao too h posted just days after clash between Indian Army personnel and Chinese troops in Galwan Valley that he should be given award.

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