Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - This morning, despite the continuing unseasonable cold and wet weather, His Holiness the Dalai Lama met with almost 500 students who have recently graduated from or are currently studying in the Nalanda Courses offered by Tibet House, New Delhi.
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written to Edgars Rinkevics to congratulate him on his election as the President of Latvia. “Since 1991, I have had several opportunities to visit your beautiful country,” he wrote. “On those occasions I have been deeply moved.”
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP - This morning, because of the wet weather, His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove to the foot of the temple from where he took the lift to the upper floor. When he reached the throne in front of the statue of the Buddha, lay-people from the Dharamsala Buddhist Class were engaged in debate.
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - After a surprisingly stormy night, His Holiness the Dalai Lama walked from the gate of his residence to the covered temple courtyard under the shelter of an umbrella. Tibetans in traditional costume offered him the ‘Chema Changpu’.
