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Kalon Kesang Y Takla to leave for official visit

Friday, 28 December 2007, 2:35 p.m.


Kalon Kesang Yangkyi Takla/File Photo
Dharamshala: Kalon Kesang Yangkyi Takla, the Kalon for the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), will leave Dharamshala on 31 December, for an official visit to Delhi, Mundgod and Gujarat after becoming a member of the Kashag.

While in Mundgod in Karnataka, on 3 January, the DIIR Kalon will attend the long life offering to His Holiness the Dalai Lama hosted by the Central Tibetan Administration.

On 7 January, Kalon Takla will meet Kalon Tempa Tsering, representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi and staff members of India-Tibet Coordination Office (ITCO) to assess the responsibilities of ITCO and follow up on the suggestions received from representatives of Tibetan settlements during their recent meeting in Dharamshala.

Later in the day, she will deliver a talk on the Middle-Way Approach to the Tibetan students studying in various colleges in Delhi at the Tibetan Youth Hostel at Pitampura.

Next day, the DIIR Kalon will attend a board meeting of the Tibetan Parliamentary and Policy Research Centre.

On 16 January, she is scheduled to address the press conference at the Kanoria Centre for Arts on the inauguration of the Tibet Festival in Ahmedabad.

The Tibet Festival, to be held from 16 - 20 January, will showcase the wealth of Tibet's cultural heritage to the people of Gujarat.

The Tibet Festival will showcase a film festival during which such classic Hollywood films on Tibet like Seven Years in Tibet and Kundun and other equally riveting movies like The Cup and Compassion in Exile will be screened. It will also host talks by well-known scholars on Tibetan medicine, Buddhism and science, traditional Tibetan songs and dances.

The festival will host a photo exhibition on the life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, another photo exhibition on Tibet past and present and Tibetan thangka painting.

While in Gujarat, she will attend talks by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on "Ethics and Business" at the RJMCEI Auditorium, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. She will also attend His Holiness' talk on "Globalisation and World Peace" at Gujarat Vidyapith University.

On 19 January, Kalon Takla is scheduled to address Tibetans in Ahmedabad.

She will return here on 23 January.

  (www.tibet.net is the official website of the Central Tibetan Administration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.)

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