Viraf Mehta and Tashi Tsangpa showing his Holiness photographs by Ahtushi Deshpande

His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama, had written in his own hand in Tibetan (on a print of my petroglyph photograph), signed and dated 13th August 2012. The message, roughly translated, says that -

“For researchers of human pre-history, rock art is of immense value and therefore deserves preservation.”