Dharamsala, Dec 27 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, Sunday said it is important to preserve and promote Tibetan culture which has the potential to benefit humanity.
“There is a need for preserving and promoting the Tibetan Buddhist culture, which has the potential to benefit the humanity,” the Dalai Lama said while addressing the inaugural session of the Fifth Tibetan general conference on education at Tibetan Children’s Village here.

“The efforts made in education by the Tibetans is one of the biggest achievements in the past five decades in exile. But there is a need for reviewing the past to rectify the mistakes and make even greater progress in the standard of education.

“There is also need for holding open and interactive discussion to explore effective ways to improve the quality of learning both in traditional Tibetan studies and modern education,” he told the participants attending the conference.

More than 200 participants representing 85 Tibetan schools from across India, Nepal and Bhutan are attending the three-day conference.

The Nobel laureate also emphasised the need to introduce study of Buddhist philosophy and dialectic in the school-curriculum.

He also emphasised the importance of translating teachings of Buddha and other Buddhist masters into the Chinese language.

The Dalai Lama along with many of his supporters fled Tibet and took refuge in India when Chinese troops moved in and took control of Lhasa in 1959.

He has ever since been heading the Tibetan government-in-exile here. No country recognizes the government-in-exile.