Bylakuppe: The Tibetan community celebrated the 29th birthday of the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet - Gendun Choekyi Nyima, recently. On the occasion, the Students For a Free Tibet (SFT) and the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, attempted to set a new Guinness World Record for “The most candles lit on a birthday cake” by lighting 1,30,000 candles. This is a number symbolic of the approximate population of Tibetans in exile.
The verification process is going to take a month and then it is expected to be listed in the Guinness Book of World of Records for lighting the most number of candles on a birthday cake. The current record stands at 72,585 candles, set by Ashrita Furman and members of the Chinmoy Centre in New York, the USA.
