The enduring harmony between India's many religions is proof to the world that different communities can live peacefully and solve problems together, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama said, reports Hindustan Times
He said:"India is the only country where all major world religions live together, not only in modern time, but over 1,000 years."
The Dalai Lama was speaking to leaders from nine religious groups invited for two days of meetings to mull some of India's biggest problems, including poverty, attacks on women, environmental degradation and communal violence.
He stressed that there was no justification for fighting in the name of faith, calling it "unthinkable."
The meeting's agenda included discussions on enormous and seemingly endemic problems in India, including poverty, attacks on women, environmental degradation and communal violence.