Dalai Lamas Visits
Buddhist leaders often visit the country in order to bestow teachings and blessings. His Holiness the Dalai Lama attended the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1999, but was denied a visa when he was asked to attend an international peace conference in March 2009. As well when he was invited to South Africa for Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu's 80th birthday party on 7 October 2011. The government's relation with China was the obvious reason that the VISA was denied.
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