Dalai Lama's b'day under tree that grew from his walking stick

GUWAHATI: A instrumentality pressed into stone, past near behind. Sixty-five years later, it stands fruit-bearing and gangly - a histrion grown from the unit of a fleeing monk. At Zemithang successful Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang territory bordering China, lamas, villagers, and dignitaries gathered Sunday beneath the Gurusheng histrion arsenic prayers roseate for the Tibetan spiritual leader's agelong beingness connected his 90th birthday.This was the precise spot wherever the 14th Dalai Lama archetypal rested aft escaping from Tibet successful 1959. Locals said the walking instrumentality helium used, placed connected a chromatic earlier helium moved on, took basal - giving emergence to what is present considered a beatified tree. "He placed it connected a rock. The Monpas (local community) saw it sprout. Today, it bears fruit," said Lama Kalzang Lhundrub, caput of Gorzam Stupa Culture Centre. "The histrion is simply a blessing. It's increasing retired of stone."

The Dalai Lama had stayed the 2nd nighttime astatine Gorzam Stupa aft entering India.He crossed into India connected March 31, 1959, done Zemithang. Security forces received him astatine Survashamba, 2km from Kinzamani. The woody staff, aboriginal called the Gurusheng tree, was with him.Now a spiritual landmark, the Gurusheng histrion drew much than 18,000 tourists past year. "It's the biggest attraction successful Zemithang. Prayers nether it are believed to beryllium wish- fulfilling," said ellipse serviceman Deewan Mara.