Nearly 1,000 Buddhist monks, students and Tibetans took part in a peaceful prayer meeting at a monastery in Boudhnath area in the Nepali capital Thursday in commemoration of the Tibetan Uprising Day (Mar. 10).

The organizers said they conducted the meeting at a private space within the monastery as Nepal government doesn’t allow any public function from the Tibetan community within the country.

The monks and members of Tibetan community offered ‘khada’ ( a kind of sacred scarf) at the photo of The Dalai Lama and Wangchuk Tsering, representative of the Dalai Lama in Kathmandu, read out the message by the Nobel laureate and spiritual guru.

The Nepal government had closed down the Kathmandu office of the Dalai Lama’s representative on January 24 this year—barley a week ahead of the important political changes on February 1.

The office was in operation in Nepal, in an unofficial way, for the last several decades.

Tibetans and their supporters around the world observe March 10 as the Tibetan Uprising Day in commemoration of a peaceful uprising against the armed Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959.

Nepal considers Tibet an integral part of the People’s Republic of China.