Exhausted Dalai Lama cancels world trips

The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader is suffering from exhaustion and has canceled his international trips for the next three weeks, according to his Web site. “His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been experiencing some discomfort in the past couple of days,” a statement on the side said. The statment added that doctors put his condition down to exhaustion and have advised him to cancel his engagements pending the results of medical tests. It said planned trips to Mexico and the Dominican Republic were now shelved. The 73-year-old Nobel laureate last week inaugurated a Buddhist temple in the south of France and met with French first lady Carla Sarkozy. “The Dalai Lama is fine, he’s just exhausted. He has had a hectic schedule for the last year, with events scheduled almost every day,” Tempa Tshering, a representative of the Dalai Lama in Delhi, India, told CNN. Read Article