Bangalore, August 17 – They are people in exile but have strived to keep their identity and vibrant culture alive in other lands.
The “Festival of Tibetan Culture” being organised in the city by Tibet House, New Delhi, and World Buddhist Culture Trust, New Delhi, intends to showcase the monastic and religious Tibetan traditions, medicine and art. The festival commenced here on Sunday with an exhibition, “Living Tibetan Buddhism: A Photographic Journey”. This is an array of photographs by the noted German photographer and filmmaker, Bruno Baumann, which gives a vivid account of the Tibetan Buddhist culture.
Inaugurating the exhibition at the Indian Institute of World Culture, the Governor, T.N. Chaturvedi, said the traditional relationship between Tibet and India was well known and cordial and both countries shared a similar “mystique.”
“We in India are proud that our friends from Tibet have found a place in our country to settle,” he said. The State also had active establishments of the Tibetans, he added.
He described the Dalai Lama, whom he had met, as a “man of peace who has been striving not just for the welfare of his people but the uplift of all mankind.”
The exhibition would give a realistic and correct insight into the life of Tibetans and of Tibetan Buddhism, Mr. Chaturvedi added.
