Meet held on receiving Dalai Lama


Pravin Rai
(source:Voice of Sikkim)





Gangtok, 10 September: A coordination meet was conducted in the capital by the State Ecclesiastical Department to discuss over issue of visit of HH Dalai lama to Sikkim during December this year.

Mr Tenzing Gelek, Secretary, Ecclesiastical department said that the visit of Dalai Lama is totally organized by the state government and this is his fourth visit to Sikkim during the present government.

Routines have been scheduled and Dalai lama would arrive in the state on 15 December and will be visiting to various monasteries and even perform a public teaching.

Dalai Lama will also head the seminar with various learned scholars on the theme ‘Science and Buddhism’. The retreat center for Dalai Lama has been fixed as Tashiding, West Sikkim, which is under preparation and the same center will be turned into museum in the coming years, it was informed.

It has been learnt that Dalai Lama’s visit has been planned and scheduled for nine days in the state and on 23rd of December his holiness would return.

During the meeting, a total of 8 Buddhist organization form across the state were present to highlight the preparation for receiving Dalai Lama.