Almost 500 Tibetan opera performers and their supporters met His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the Tsuglagkhang courtyard today. They belonged to 14 groups who are attending the Sho-tön, the annual opera festival, at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA).

This morning, His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV extending his warmest greetings to him on his election to leadership of the Roman Catholic Church.

This morning His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote to Friedrich Merz to congratulate him on being elected Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has this morning written to Anthony Albanese to congratulate him on his re-election as Prime Minister following his party’s victory in the Australian parliamentary elections.