DHARAMSHALA, March 24: The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has expressed sadness at the passing away of founder of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew.
The Dalai Lama, currently in New Delhi, wrote to Yew’s son Lee Hsien Loong, incumbent Prime Minister of Singapore, offering condolences to his family and people of Singapore.
The 79 year old Nobel Laureate described Yew as an exemplary nation builder. His Holiness wrote that Yew “had made and extraordinary contribution with vision and determination to Singapore’s evolution into a highly developed, prosperous state.”
He suggested that the best tribute that can be paid to the late leader is to maintain the dedication he showed to Singapore, which has become a state its citizens can be proud of and which the world at large views as a model of education, peace and diversity.
