Dalai Lama to attend Czech rights meeting: spokesmanTibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama Dalai Lama (dä`lī lä`mə) [Tibetan,=oceanic teacher], title of the leader of Tibetan Buddhism. Believed like his predecessors to be the incarnation of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, 1935–, , will visit the Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. next month for a conference on democracy and human rights in Asia Human rights in Asia are described by region:
Tibetan officials said they were bracing for China's reaction to the Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. winner's planned participation in the conference in Prague followed by a visit to neighbouring Slovakia. "China will protest at anything," spokesman Tenzin Taklha said by telephone from the Tibetan leader's home in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala. Filip Sebek, one of the organisers of the conference, said the two-day conference, titled "Peace, Democracy and Human Rights in Asia", would begin on September 10. "We are praying against China raking up another row over the visit by His Holiness a title of the pope; - formerly given also to Greek bishops and Greek emperors. See also: Holiness ," said a senior member of the Tibetan government-in-exile. In March, the 73-year-old monk was denied a visa by South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. after being invited to a peace conference of Nobel laureates in that country. The South African government admitted its decision was taken to avoid undermining relations with China, which reacts angrily to any country hosting the Dalai Lama. Taklha said the Dalai Lama will kick off a five-day European tour on September 7 with a visit to Slovakia, where he will attend a private function. It will be the Dalai Lama's second trip to the former Soviet satellite since December 2008. The Dalai Lama has lived in India since escaping a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule in 1959. The saffron-robed Buddhist monk is reviled by the Chinese government, which has branded him a "monster" and accused him of trying to split the nation -- a charge he denies. 
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