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The Dalai Lama is resting up after a successful routine surgery to remove gallstones.

The spiritual leader has had the gallstones for over a decade, but it was during a recent checkup in New Dehli that doctors decided it would be best to finally have them removed.

The surgery will not affect the Dalai Lama’s plans to travel at the end of the month, educating people on the tenets of Buddhism and the Tibetan struggle.

The Dalai Lama is 73-years-old and his age is beginning to wear on him, causing followers to wonder what the inevitable death of the Dalai Lama will mean.

In August, the Nobel Prize-winning Buddhist elder was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai for abdominal pains. He was released in good condition, but advised to cancel a trip to Europe on account of exhaustion.

While the exile community grows increasingly divided on pacifist versus active action against China, the Dalai Lama remains deeply revered. The spiritual and political leader’s age and ailments makes followers anxious, wondering what will happen to the people’s sense of hope and faith in Tibet’s situation should they lose the Dalai Lama.

Wishing you a long, healthy life, champ!

[Image via WENN.]

Original post by liz

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