Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, India - With the announcement of the results of the Indian general election His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written to the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, to offer his congratulations on his and the National Democratic Alliance’s success.
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, India - In a letter congratulating Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, on his Coalition Party’s victory in Australia’s parliamentary elections, His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote: "Over the last four decades I have travelled the length and breadth of Australia."
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, India - An estimated 7500 people packed the Tsuglagkhang, the Main Temple and Yard adjacent to His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s residence this morning to participate in offering prayers for his long-life.
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, India - Before His Holiness the Dalai Lama reached the Main Temple this morning, the ‘Heart Sutra’ was recited three times in the languages of the Buddhist Republics of the Russian Federation, Kalmykia, Buryatia and Tuva.
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, India - His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote to Cyril Ramaphosa today to congratulate him on his party's victory in recent national elections. “South Africa has great potential for development and prosperity,” His Holiness observed.
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, India - Following a recitation of the ‘Heart Sutra’ in Russian, which the hundreds of Russians in and around the Tsuglagkhang joined in, His Holiness the Dalai Lama opened his copy of Jé Tsongkhapa’s ‘Three Principal Aspects of the Path’.
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, India - An eager crowd of more than 7600 awaited His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Tsuglagkhang, the Main Tibetan Temple, this morning. They included people from 69 countries among them 429 from India, 254 from Israel, 194 from the USA, 147 from Britain, 137 from Germany as well as the principal group of 1100 from Russia.
