DALAI LAMA to visit Sikkim and West Bengal
Author(s): Arvind SharmaDalai Lama Dharamsala, March 21, 2013: Dalai Lama left Dharamsala for a five-day visit to the North-Eastern states of Sikkim and West Bengal, on Thursday . The release from the Central Tibetan Administration said...
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Mar 21, 2013 09:30
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Dalai Lama
Dharamsala, March 21, 2013: Dalai Lama left Dharamsala for a five-day visit to the North-Eastern states of Sikkim and West Bengal, on Thursday .
The release from the Central Tibetan Administration said that the Dalai Lama will lead a Vajrakilaya consecration prayer for a new Buddha statue followed immediately by the official inauguration ceremony of the statue on March 25. In the afternoon he will give a teaching on Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo’s Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva (gyalsey laklen sodunma).
On March 26, Dalai Lama will confer a long life empowerment (tsewang) and there will also be a long life offering prayer for His Holiness. These events are being organised by the Government of Sikkim.
Dalai Lama will give teaching in Salugara, West Bengal, from March 27-29. On the afternoon of March 27 and all day of March 28, He will give teachings on Tsongkhapa’s Concise Stages for the Path to Enlightenment (lamrim dudon) and Gyalwa Longchen Rabjang’s Relaxing the Mind Itself (semnyid nyalso). On the morning of March 29 he will confer an Avalokiteshvera Initiation (chenresig wangchen).
