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Source: CCTV.com | 03-19-2009 08:27

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Visiting Tibetan deputies of China's National People's Congress have held a press briefing at the Chinese embassy in Washington D.C. They shared ideas with Chinese and foreign journalists on issues concerning Tibet.

Shingtsa Tenzinchodrak (R Front), a living Buddha of the Kagyu sect of the Tibetan Buddhism and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Tibet Autonomous Region of China, shakes hands with Mark Kirk (L Front), chairman of the U.S.-China Working Group in the House, in Washington, the United States, March 17, 2009.  (Xinhua Photo)
Shingtsa Tenzinchodrak (R Front), a living Buddha of the 
Kagyu sect of the Tibetan Buddhism and vice chairman of 
the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Tibet 
Autonomous Region of China, shakes hands with Mark Kirk 
(L Front), chairman of the U.S.-China Working Group in the 
House, in Washington, the United States, March 17, 2009.  
(Xinhua Photo)

Asked about the Dalai Lama, the head of the five-member delegation, Shingtsa Tenzinchodrak, said the Dalai Lama should be judged on what he has done in the past few decades and not only on what he has said.