According to a report in the Global Post, successive Thai government for the past 17 years since 1993, have quietly denied permission for one of Buddhism's greatest spiritual leaders, the Dalai Lama, to visit Thailand.
The secretary of the Dalai Lama's India-based offices stated: “His Holiness the Dalai Lama last visited Thailand in 1993 when a group of Nobel Peace laureates held a solidarity meeting for fellow Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Since then, His Holiness has not been able to visit Thailand because of the refusal of the necessary visa from the Thai government, for reasons known to them.”
It's widely believed that the predominantly Buddhist Thai government will not allow the visit for fear of offending the Chinese government.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/thailan...ailand?page=0,1
0
Thailand has refused visa for Dalai Lama for 17 years
Started by Tony, Feb 13 2010 05:24 PM
1 reply to this topic
#2
-
- Members
-
- 1,486 posts
Veteran
Posted 15 February 2010 - 04:11 PM
QUOTE
His Holiness the Dalai Lama last visited Thailand in 1993 when a group of Nobel Peace laureates held a solidarity meeting for fellow Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
According to one of the books you can't buy in Thailand, the Dalai Lama and eight other Nobel Peace laureates, visited Burmese refugee camps along the Thai side of the border in February, 1993, to demonstrate their solidarity with the imprisoned Aung San Suuu Kyi. As visiting dignitaries in Bangkok, the book says they were "astounded" to be told that military governments were good for developing nations and that Aung San was a troublemaker who was married to a westerner, educated abroad and thus unfit to lead Burma.
