Dharamsala, July 28 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama was welcomed last evening at the Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport by Mr Jaroslaw Jozwiak, Director Office of the Mayor of Warsaw, Ms Beata Bublewicz, Chair of Polish Parliamentary Group for Tibet and Mr Tsering Tashi, Representative of His Holiness at the Office of Tibet in London.
Mayor of Warsaw and the Warsaw City Council had invited the 74 year-old Tibetan leader to receive an honorary citizenship that will be conferred upon him Wednesday.
His Holiness will meet today with the Prof Katarzyna Chalasinska-Macukow, Rector of University of Warsaw, other senior university officials and special guests, before giving a public talk on “Value of Education & Universal Responsibility” to an audience of scholars, students and invited guests, a report by the Office of Tibet, London, said.
Hundreds of Polish supporters and admirers along with a small group of Tibetans living in Poland stood with Khatas (traditional Tibetan well-wishing scarf) to welcome His Holiness at his hotel.
His Holiness will attend an official luncheon reception hosted in his honor by the Mayor of Warsaw and the Chairwoman of the Warsaw City Council. After the luncheon reception, the Tibetan leader will pay his respects to Polish freedom fighters at the Warsaw Rising Museum dedicated to the sacrifices made by them to regain Poland’s independence.
“Later in the day His Holiness will open the Traditional Tibetan Herbal Health Clinic Co Ltd at the invitation of Ven. Dr Tenzin Jangchub, a former student of the Dharamsala-based Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute. The opening of this first Tibetan medical clinic in Poland is to be attended by some prominent medical figures, including Mr Pawel Trzcinski, President of the Polish Society on Health Communication and Dr Konstanty Radziwill, President of European Chamber of Doctors.”
This is the Tibetan leader’s fourth visit to the erstwhile communist country that became a democracy in 1989.
His Holiness will then leave for Germany and Switzerland.
