Dalai Lama to Receive US Congressional Gold Medal

By Tom | October 13, 2007

The medal ceremony, scheduled for Oct. 17 at the U.S. Capitol building, will mark the most important award for the exiled Dalai Lama since he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989″I really feel very gratified that this will give yet another sometime for the Tibetans to continue to have more patience, to continue to remain nonviolent, continue to, you know, have hope so that some kind of result, you know, could be. So I think that this is very important. This is very important. In fact, the Chinese should be happy because it gives all of us some more space time, breathing space, you know, for us to sort out our differences,”said Special Envoy to the Dalai Lama, Lodi Gyari

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