Fifty years of Tibetan democracy

2010-09-02

Guests from all over the world will arrive to the event hosted by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the fiftieth anniversary of the Tibetan democracy. The jubilee ceremony will take place in the Sera Jay monastery demolished by the Chinese in Tibet and rebuilt in India.


After the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959 the Dalai Lama settled in the Indian town of Dharamsala. Along with his companions in exile, he has been striving for decades for freedom, peace and self governance, believing in and preparing for his return. Not long after his emigration he established the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile with monthly meetings and the Central Tibetan Administration acting as a government. Based upon the opinions of Tibetan leaders, the Dalai Lama proclaimed the constitution of the future free and independent Tibet on the 2nd of September 1960.

The fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of the constitution will be celebrated through a grand ceremony in India with the attendance of the representatives of the Tibetan government-in-exile and numerous governments and organization committed to the Tibetan cause. MEP Csaba Sógor will also attend the event on behalf of the Tibetan Intergroup of the European Parliament and will present the greetings of the Hungarian community in Transylvania.

The event closes on the 4th of September when the Dalai Lama will visit the Tibetan communities living in exile and will deliver a keynote address at the congress of the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF).

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