Srinagar, August 14: Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader prayed for the victims of flash flood in Leh town of Jammu and Kashmir and Zhouqu country in China.
To express his distress and grief the Nobel laureate participated in a mass prayer organized at the Tsuglagkhang temple at McLeodganj. He has also offered condolences to the surviving family members of the flood victims.
Tenzin Taklha, the joint secretary told media persons about hundreds of monks and nuns participated in the special prayer session. He said that Dalai Lama also prayed for the victims of natural disasters in Pakistan and Russia.
“His Holiness also prayed for preserving the ecology and expressed concern over natural disasters of floods in Pakistan and forest fires in Russia”, he added.
The Dalai Lama, along with many of his supporters fled Tibet and took refuge in this Indian hill station in 1959. He has ever since been heading the Tibetan government-in-exile from here.
–Agencies