Dalai Lama offers Tibetan medicine to frail Czech icon Havel

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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama smiles during a press conference in Prague. The Dalai Lama said Monday he had offered frail Czech freedom icon Vaclav Havel a "Tibetan method" to overcome the effects of a recent illness - AFP

By Michal Cizek | AFP – 4 hours ago

"His physical condition is quite weak so... I recommended some Tibetan method," said the Dalai Lama, currently on a four-day visit to Prague at the invitation of former Czech president Havel.

"I told him now I'm acting like a Tibetan physician to my long-time friend," the 76-year-old told reporters with a laugh, after asking Havel "to live ten more years."

Havel, 75, the president of Czechoslovakia in 1990-1992 and of the successor Czech Republic in 1993-2003, has long battled poor health, partly caused by the five years he spent in communist jails.

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Local media said Havel, who has been grappling with breathing problems since he had part of his lung removed in 1996 to stop cancer, had cancelled part of his weekend programme and only met the Dalai Lama shortly on Saturday.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/dalai-lama-offers-tibetan-medicine-frail-czech-icon-175746845.html

The Dalai Lama is Prague for a roundtable conference on human rights honoring last years Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo emocracy and Human Rights in Asia: One Year After an Empty Chair in Oslo at Charles University in Prague.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo