{"id":71654,"date":"2019-07-07T01:08:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T19:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=71654"},"modified":"2019-07-07T01:08:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T19:38:03","slug":"devotees-pray-for-dalai-lama-on-his-84th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/07\/07\/devotees-pray-for-dalai-lama-on-his-84th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotees pray for Dalai Lama on his 84th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jul 6:<\/strong> The 84th birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was celebrated at several places in the state with offerings and prayers on 6 July.<br \/>\nAt Tawang district&#8217;s Ugyenling Gompa, the birth place of the 6th Dalai Lama, people from all walks of life joined the celebration and prayed for the long life of their spiritual leader.<br \/>\nNGO &#8216;Humanity&#8217; group organized a blood donation camp at Khandro Drowa Tsangmu district hospital here in collaboration with the district blood bank to mark the occasion.<br \/>\nThe Department of Environment and Forest in collaboration with Environmental Protection Society also organized a tree plantation programme, and planted more than 500 saplings in Phamla and Sange-ling gompa area.<br \/>\nReports of conducting various social programmes to mark the occasion have also been received from Lungla and Mogto areas.<br \/>\nIn Itanagar, Chief Minister Pema Khandu joined the<br \/>\nbirthday celebration of the Dalai Lama at Centre for Buddhist Culture Centre Gompa.<br \/>\nThe CM also inaugurated an herbal medicine centre in the Gompa premises and later joined a tree plantation drive, which was organized to mark the occasion.<br \/>\nIn a congratulatory message to the Dalai Lama on his birthday, the Tibet Support Group of Arunachal Pradesh said, &#8220;His Holiness the Dalai Lama has worked tirelessly to promote human values and religious harmony in the world.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;His three main commitments are promotion of human values, promotion of religious harmony and protection of Tibetan culture and environment,&#8221; the message said.<br \/>\nThe group prayed for long life of the spiritual leader and hoped he would return to Tibet with honour during his lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jul 6: The 84th birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was celebrated at several places in the state with offerings and prayers on 6 July. At Tawang district&#8217;s Ugyenling Gompa, the birth place of the 6th Dalai Lama, people from all walks of life joined the celebration and prayed for the long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}