The Dalai Lama will pay a five-day visit to Sikkim from October 28,바카라 웹사이트 the state Ecclesiastical Department Minister, Ven Sonam Lama said on Wednesday.
Lama, who is currently at Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, told newspersons here via video conferencing that he along with the department secretary Passang D Phempu had met the Buddhist spiritual head at his residence there on Wednesday and delivered a letter from Chief Minister P S Tamang inviting him to Sikkim.
The Dalai Lama accepted the invitation and expressed his keen desire to visit Sikkim, which he said is always dear to him, Lama said.바카라 웹사이트Tamang said "I am joyful that His Holiness accepted the invitation to visit our state. His benign presence will be a great privilege for the devotees to seek his blessings".바카라 웹사이트
The Dalai Lama is the head of the Gelugpa sect of Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism that has a large number of followers in Sikkim. 바카라 웹사이트
This will be the 86-year-old Buddhist spiritual head's sixth visit to the state,바카라 웹사이트 which till 1975 was a Buddhist monarchy and had a close cultural relationship with Tibet.바카라 웹사이트
The Nobel Peace Prize awardee had last visited the state in 2010. He was scheduled to visit Sikkim in 2018 but it was cancelled due to his health problems.
-With PTI Input
