Dalai Lama Will Travel To US For Knee Treatment

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will be travelling to the United States this month for knee treatment. A post on his official X handle on Tuesday read, “This is to inform all concerned that no engagements, including public audiences, will be scheduled from June 20 onwards until further notice. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is scheduled to travel to the United States for medical treatment on his knees.”

Update to His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Schedule – This is to inform all concerned that no engagements, including public audiences will be scheduled from June 20 onwards until further notice. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is scheduled to travel to the United States for medical…

— Dalai Lama (@DalaiLama) June 3, 2024

The Dalai Lama will resume his regular engagements after he returns to Dharamsala. 

His visit to the US comes days before he turns 89. The spiritual leader last visited the US in 2017, where, apart from public engagements, he visited the Mayo Clinic in Rochester for his routine annual medical check-up, according to an IANS report.

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The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibet. Incumbent Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th Dalai Lama, and was born on 6 July 1935, to a farming family. At the age of two, named Lhamo Dhondup at the time, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso.

According to the Dalai Lama’s website, the “Dalai Lamas are believed to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and the patron saint of Tibet”.

“Bodhisattvas are realised beings inspired by a wish to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings, who have vowed to be reborn in the world to help humanity,” it says.

The spiritual leader has been based in India in exile since 1959, when China brutally suppressed a Tibetan uprising.