Dalai Lama marks landmark 90th birthday, prays for peace with China

Calling himself a “simple Buddhist monk”, the Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday in the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, where the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism has been living in exile since fleeing Chinese rule in Tibet in 1959. The spiritual leader sat before a packed audience that included hundreds of red-robed monks and nuns who braved incessant rain to see him.