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Dalai Lama resumes work after month of rest

By Lobsang Wangyal | Tibet Sun

The Dalai Lama begins three-day teachings at Tsuglakhang temple in Mcleod Ganj. He resumed work on Thursday since his hospitalisation four weeks back suffering from abdominal pains.Tibet Sun/Lobsang Wangyal/India

The Dalai Lama resumed work on Thursday with a teaching session, four weeks after he was hospitalised suffering from abdominal pains.

The three-day teachings on Je Tsongkhapa’s Song of the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (lamrim dhuedon) is primarily for people from southeast Asia at the request of The Tibetan Buddhist Centre in Singapore.

The Dalai Lama is also slated to give teachings from 30 September to 4 October, for Chinese Buddhists mainly from Taiwan.

Many world leaders had called to enquire about his health, including US President George W. Bush. Bush called the Dalai Lama on Tuesday, since the two were scheduled to meet earlier this month while the Dalai Lama would have been enroute to Latin America.

Reports say that China warned the U.S. on Thursday to stop interfering in its affairs after President Bush called the Dalai Lama to voice concerns over his health.

“We urge the U.S. to … honour its commitments to recognize Tibet as an inalienable part of China, not to support Tibet independence and stop interfering in China’s internal affairs,” foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao has said.

“China has made solemn representations to the United States on the U.S. leaders talking with the Dalai and meeting with the Dalai’s representatives in the U.S.”

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