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# Thousands gather to celebrate Dalai Lama's 75th birthday
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## Thousands of supporters will gather today to celebrate the Dalai Lama's
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75th birthday.
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![Dalai Lama turns 75][1]
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The Dalai Lama will address a crowd of supporters in India Photo: GETTY
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7:00AM BST 06 Jul 2010
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The Nobel laureate will address a crowd of 5,000 fans and followers at his
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temple in McLeod Ganj, a hill station in the Indian Himalayas where he has
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lived since fleeing Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese
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rule.
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In apparently fine health and showing no signs of slowing down despite his
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advanced years, the Buddhist spiritual leader will break with recent birthday
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tradition and greet well-wishers in person.
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"Everything is ready," said the man tasked with organising the festivities,
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Tashi Norbu, an official in the Tibetan government-in-exile based in nearby
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Dharamshala.
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"This time, as it's his 75th birthday, he also wanted to join the function,"
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he said.
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Elsewhere, Tibetan communities in North America, Europe and Australia are
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gearing up for music and cultural events to celebrate the day, while numerous
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Internet campaigns are collecting birthday messages.
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Online advocacy group Avaaz.org is inviting people to send tributes via its
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website that will be posted on a "wall of warm wishes" inside the temple.
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In McLeod Ganj, where a van with loudspeakers toured the narrow, traffic-
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clogged streets inviting people to join the celebrations, schools and
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businesses will be shut.
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"All the Tibetans who live locally will go," said 26-year-old Diki Youdon, who
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works in the town. "It's always hard to get a seat and this year there will be
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even more people because it's the 75th birthday."
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For those unable to get a seat or visit McLeod Ganj, the whole event will be
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streamed live at http://dalailama.com/live.
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At an age when most others are putting their feet up, the Dalai Lama keeps up
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a globe-trotting schedule that would tire someone half his age, travelling to
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countries willing to defy Chinese pressure not to grant him a visa.
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China considers the Dalai Lama a "splittist" despite his repeated calls for
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autonomy rather than independence for Tibet, where riots against Chinese rule
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flared in March 2008.
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