The actor Richard Gerebased in Spain with his wife Alejandra Silva, has moved this Monday to the India, specifically to Dharamshala, where he has joined Dalái Lama on the occasion of his 90th birthday and in full week of succession.
The presence of Gere is not accidental and that for years it has raised as “the most famous defender of the Tibetan cause in Hollywood” and its presence coincides with the announcement of a Three -day religious conclave this week. As Efe collects, during these days the Dalái Lama, Nobel Peace Prize, is expected to issue a message that could detail the plan for his succession and his rejection of Beijing’s interference.
This Monday, Gere went to the main temple of McLeod Ganj, in northern India, where the first of the events was held on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Over there offered the spiritual leader a thata type of ceremonial white handkerchief that is delivered as greeting in Tibetan Buddhism. Dalái Lama blessed the American and he kissed the Buddhist leader in his hands.
Gere has been claiming the rights of Tibet for more than three decades and denouncing Chinese interferencebecoming a person not grateful For the Asian giant since 1993 after he spoke at the Oscar awards of the “horrendous situation of human rights” in Tibet and accused Beijing of exterminating “1.2 million tibetans.” This act also earned him being vetoed by the Hollywood Academy for years for having made a political comment.
“China is a very difficult place to live if you are a freethinker, artist or religious, but especially in Tibet”said Gere in. “I think China has erroneously judged the Tibetan people, believing that they could subvert their deep religious beliefs and turn them into true communist. That will never happen. All their life has revolved around Buddhism, their teachers, their gurus … the high ideals of Buddhism. They will not change that or in a hundred, or in two hundred, or in a thousand years.
The Dalái Lama has lived in India since 1959, the year he fled his native Tibet after a failed popular uprising against Chinese occupation. Since then, he has led a government in exile.
The Chinese government, who considers the leader a separatist, seeks to control the lineage and for this he took custody in 1995 to Panchen Lamakey figure for recognition of reincarnation, and intends to name its own successor.
