00:00This is according to Tibetan calendar, the 30th June is His Holiness birthday, but the official ceremony according to Western calendar will be on 6th of July.
00:13The Domevas also got the opportunity to organize the 80th birthday and they got this opportunity to organize the 90th birthday.
00:20There are a lot of gatherings, a lot of people, so a very small place, so most of the general public are in the monastery instead of here because we couldn't fit in everybody.
00:35So His Holiness spoke very briefly and he reiterated his commitment to serve Tibet and the humanity.
00:43How is the importance it becomes when Tibet from all the religions have gathered here today?
00:46Now this is going to be celebrated throughout the years, a year of compassion.
00:52So there will be many thematic conferences including this one.
00:56So they made it more religious oriented, you have representatives from all religious traditions in India.
01:04And this is again connecting to the second commitment of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
01:10At this time it's a very huge and big celebration.
01:13Yes.
01:14So some special significance of 90 of God in Tibetan religion?
01:19No Dalai Lama has lived up to 90.
01:22His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is the only one who lived up to 90 years of age.
01:28So it is an occasion for Tibet to celebrate and we hope that he will live for another two decades and more.
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