Mexico, El actor estadounidense y devoto del budismo Richard Gere inauguró en la capital mexicana la exposición fotográfica "Peregrino", that shows the daily life of the Tibetan people. "No fueron fotografías fáciles de tomar porque surgieron de muchas lágrimas", the actor warned at the presentation of the exhibition at the Memoria y Tolerancia Museum in Mexico City. The collection is made up of 64 images captured by the actor between 1981 and 1996 during his travels in India, Tibet and Mongolia. "Richard Gere imprime su sensibilidad y subraya su militancia y vinculaciones morales y espirituales que explican sus decisivas acciones a favor de la causa tibetana", said the director of Temporary Exhibitions of the Memory and Tolerance Museum, Linda Atach. Photographs describe the Tibetan dilemma, Atach added., en sus aspectos cotidianos y escenifican la lucha y preservación de las cada vez "más restringidas" customs of that town. The Mexican model and actress Jaydy Mitchel was also present at the opening of the exhibition.. "Como toda causa positiva, it will always be nice to share, para ayudar a una población que ha estado con problemas de persecución como le ha pasado al pueblo tibetano", Mitchel explained to Efe. The inauguration of the exhibition is part of the fourth visit of the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso to Mexico, who arrived in the country this Friday to give several talks on Buddhism and host a meeting with Catholic priests at the Pontifical University. The Tibetan spiritual leader was introduced by Richard Gere, one of the best-known public faces in defending the Tibetan cause and denouncing the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Tenzin Gyatso, who occupies the fourteenth place in the historical lineage of the Dalai, ceded political power to Lobsang Sangay, who in 2011 assumed the reins of the Tibetan Government in exile in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala. Tibet was occupied by the Chinese Army in 1951 and has been heavily guarded since a quelled uprising in 1959, which resulted in the exile of the Tibetan spiritual leader in Dharamsala. China assures that Tibet has been an inseparable part of its territory for centuries, while the Tibetans argue that the region enjoyed a certain independence until it was occupied in 1951. |
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