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Around 45,000 people
flocked to a Hamburg stadium to listen to the Dalai Lama
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Hamburg, Germany, 28 July 2007 (Deutsche Welle) - The Dalai
Lama ended his 10-day visit to Hamburg on Friday with a call
for more compassion and criticism of the actions of Chinese
security forces in Tibet.
"The more we try to make others happy, the happier we
will be ourselves," the Dalai Lama told his audience at a
tennis stadium in the northern German port city.
An estimated 45,000 people are reported to have followed the
lectures of the spiritual leader of the Tibetans since he
arrived in Hamburg last weekend.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner will fly to the southern German
city of Freiburg on Saturday and will fly back Sunday to
Dharamsala in India where he lives in exile.
Earlier, the 72-year-old told German news agency dpa in an
interview that Chinese forces continued to commit grave human
rights violations in Tibet, adding there had been repeated
incidents with Chinese guards at the border.
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The Tibetan spiritual
leader said happiness can come from making others happy
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"Many who tried to escape were shot," the Dalai Lama
said, adding that Tibetan culture was being undermined by the
Chinese.
Asked if his popularity in western nations was a form of
pressure on the Chinese government, he said, "My main
motivation is not the Tibet issue. My concern is the promotion
of human values."
He, however, conceded that the Chinese are increasingly more
interested in Tibetan Buddhism.
"That is making their attitude on Tibet more
positive," he added. China has controlled Tibet since
1950.
In his lectures over the past days, the Dalai Lama has urged
industrialized nations to take more responsibility for the
developing world. He has also spoken out in favor of organ
donation.
At an international conference for Buddhist nuns, he called
for equal rights for nuns and monks in Tibetan Buddhism.
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