Dalai Lama reaffirms commitment to live beyond 130 at long-life offering at Zanskar

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Tenzin Nyidon

DHARAMSHALA, July 23: The nonagenarian Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama reiterated his aspiration to live beyond the age of 130 during a long-life offering (Tenshug) ceremony presented by the people of Zanskar at the Padum teaching ground in Zanskar, Ladakh on Wednesday. This reaffirmation echoes a similar statement he made earlier during a long-life prayer ceremony offered by the Cabinet of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) on earlier this month.

During the event, the Tibetan spiritual leader blessed a model and laid the foundation stone for the proposed Zanskar Monlam Choerton. The Zanskar Buddhist Association, the Zanskar Gonpa Association, and the Karsha Gon Yarchos Chenmo Organizing Committee jointly organ...

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