A website has been launched about the self exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama with the aim to spread his message of world peace and take questions via email, reports said.

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama.

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama.
(File Photo)
The website www.dalailama.com was inaugurated on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day and the 16th anniversary of his acceptance of Nobel Peace Prize, AFP reported.

The website features information on the Dalai Lama’s teaching dates, speeches, meetings with dignitaries, life in exile, photo gallery, contact details and news.

“The website is not to promote the Dalai Lama himself. It is to reach out to the world with his message of love, peace and compassion and universal responsibility,” AFP quoted a team member who designed the website as saying.

The ‘Dalai Lamas’ are believed to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and patron saint of Tibet. Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who have postponed their own nirvana and chosen to take rebirth in order to serve humanity.

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is both the head of state and the spiritual leader of Tibet.

He was born on 6 July 1935, to a farming family, in a small hamlet located in Taktser, Amdo, northeastern Tibet. At the age of two, the child, who was named Lhamo Dhondup at that time was recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso.

The Dalai Lama fled Tibet and crossed over to neighbouring India in 1959 after the collapse of the resistance movement opposed to the 1950 Chinese invasion.