Two Tibetan delegates, at front right, during the Asian Conference in Delhi in 1947 as Mahatma Gandhi speaks (seated far left). A Tibetan flag is seen in front of them along with flags of other participating nations. Nehru Memorial Museum/India
By Sampho Theiji | Asian Relations Conference 1947
NEW DELHI, India, 24 March 1947
Our Tibetan Government received an invitation to join in the Asian Relations Conference. We are a country which administers its subjects on the basis of religious aspirations and India being the motherland of Buddhism, we Buddhist[s] and specially Tibet had friendly relations with India from ancient times. Therefore our Government have sent us here to attend this great Conference to maintain our peaceful relations based on religion.
In a similar way we are very glad to meet representatives from all the Asian countries in this Conference and we wish to express our sincere gratitude to the great Indian leaders, Mahadma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, and to all the distinguished representatives who have gathered in this Conference. As for the future, all the Asian countries will feel as brothers towards each other, a feeling based on spiritual relationship, so that in this way we might hope that there will be everlasting peace and unity in Asia.
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