I was a lazy student, confesses Dalai Lama
More than 500 Tibetans, from all over Bangalore, flocked to the Tibetan Children's Village College, on Mysore Road, on Monday, to meet the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan community in exile
THE DALAI LAMA travelled to Bangalore from Dharamshala to attend the consecration ceremony of the newly formed college, which will henceforth, be known as the Dalai Lama Institute of Higher Education, Bangalore.
"I was a very very lazy student," said the Dalai Lama, addressing the Tibetan community of Bangalore and the 71 students of the college. He said that the young Tibetans should be ’determined’ and should ’excel in education’.
Welcoming the Dalai Lama, Ngawang Dorjee, the principal of the college, said, "Our joy knows no bounds today."
He announced the institute’s future plans, which revolve around providing quality higher education grounded in the Tibetan culture. The college would expand to eventually accommodate 3,000 students and would provide courses in computer science, arts, sciences, philosophy, human rights and environmental studies, along with its ongoing teachers’ training programme.
Dorjee praised the city of Bangalore for its academic atmosphere and hoped that the many educationists and experts in the city would extend assistance in the development of the college.
"We will leave no stone unturned in proving that we are worthy of this beautiful city," said Dorjee.
G Parmeshwar, former Minister of Higher Education for the Karnataka government, who is a part of the college’s advisory board, also attended the function. He said that the institution should become a deemed university someday.
"We don’t consider you as outsiders, you are our brothers and sisters," he said, expressing solidarity with the Tibetan community. "If you achieve independence, it doesn’t mean you have to go back," he added.
The Dalai Lama also thanked the Indian people for providing the Tibetans a place to live, practice their religion and retain their culture. "We lost our home 50 years ago but we found a unique home in India," said the Dalai Lama.
The ceremony was held in a newly constructed auditorium, overlooking a vast stretch of green lawn. The auditorium was packed to the brim with Tibetan families and their children, merry-faced college students, petite Tibetan women clad in brightly coloured, traditional Tibetan dresses and a handful of monks in their yellow and amber costumes. People in the back seats stood on their toes to catch a glimpse of their leader, as the Dalai Lama arrived, under tight security, ushered in with the sound of trumpets.
"I feel good that our leader has come," said Tenzin Dukdak, a 9th grade student, who looks forward to studying in the Dalai Lama Institute of Higher Education.
For Tenzin Lhama, who works as a mid-wife in London, meeting the Dalai Lama on Monday was a ’pleasant co-incidence’. She landed at the Bangalore airport on Monday morning, when her siblings, who had come to receive her, told her about their leader’s visit.
"It feels really good," said Lhama, adding, "I am quite lucky that way."
.His holiness the dalai lama, the needs of all th people around world in this critical era.where people have forgotton peace and love.it is very rare to find a great personality person like him in todays world.A living example of peace and harmony.
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