The Dalai Lama's leather shoe vs VOA's net survey

The Dalai Lama's leather shoe vs VOA's net survey

While the 76-year-old Dalai Lama was celebrating his birthday through various activities in the US, his followers around the world are racking their brains to express their best wishes to this funny master, who took off his slippers and put on a pair of heavy leather shoes in the hot summer before flying to the White House to celebrate his birthday.Glimpse Into Daily Life in North Korea.

The Dalai Lama's way of birthday celebration differs greatly from the Tibetan traditions, in which he should be celebrating it with relatives and friends. However, this old lama ignored his exiled Tibetans, his pious followers, and flew a long way to the US for the meeting.

In fact, his travel to the US is nothing of a birthday celebration but a political visit. With the painstaking efforts of some "enthusiasts" in American Congress, the Dalai Lama finally realized his dream of meeting with the US President Barack Obama just a few hours before leaving, which made his travel a rewarding one.

In Dalai Lama's words, he reputed Obama as his "old friend", and thus their political talk as a pep talk for his friend before the approaching 2012 presidential election. But the hasty and unpresentable meeting proved that the Dalai Lama was kissing Obama's ass. But to this old lama, a meeting with Obama could be the best gift for his birthday no matter how it was held. In other words, the success of his travel only depended on whether he could meet his "old friend" Obama for he knew well what would be going on in the meeting. Obama knew this too, so he presented the meeting and called it a "private" one. But we Chinese knew better about their tricks.

For the Dalai Lama, his birthday could be called "meaningful" for it endows him an opportunity for a new illusion. He was emboldened by the meeting and could now begin with "it is hard to say" when talking about the situation in Tibet in the next twenty or even thirty years. At the same time, he expressed his confidence that he could return to Tibet for a reunion in his lifetime.