Thousands Welcome His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Sarnath[Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 10:01 a.m.]
Thousands
of people carrying ceremonial scarves (khatag) accorded warm welcome to
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who arrived in Sarnath yesterday to give a
five-day teaching series from 12 – 16 January.
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| His Holiness the Dalai Lama being greeted by senior monks on his arrival at the Central University of Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India, on 10 January 2011. His Holiness will begin a five-day religious discourse near the university on 12 January |
VARANASI:
His Holiness was received at airport by director of the Central
University of Tibetan Studies (CUTS), Ven Ngawang Samten, organisers of
the teaching and Kalon Dongchung Ngodup.Thousands of people,
including Tibetans and Buddhist devotees, holding immaculate white
Khatag were standing outside the university’s entrance to welcome His
Holiness the Dalai Lama. As His Holiness enters inside the
university compound, he was welcomed by heads of the monastic community
led by Gaden Tripa Rinpoche and two Sharjhang Choeje Rinpoche. A group
of CUTS students performed auspicious Tashi Sholpa dance.A group of monks playing monastic clarinet and carrying incense sticks then ushered His Holiness into the palace.His
Holiness will preach Shantideva’s A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of
Life (chodjug) & Kamalashila’s The Middling States of Meditation
(gomrim barpa). The teachings will be held near the Central University
of Tibetan Studies.
