Dalai Lama delivers sermon in Kalimpong
December 13th, 2010 - 7:39 pm ICT by ANIBy Tarak Sarkar
Kalimpong (West Bengal), Dec.13 (ANI): Scores of Buddhists along with the monks converged at the Golden Tharpa Monastery here on Monday to attend a sermon delivered by the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama.
The Dalai Lama led the ritual prayers known as the ‘Wang’.
Devotees present at the ceremony said it was a great feeling for them to be present in the ceremony.
“It is a great experience. It is feeling as if all our wishes would be fulfilled,” said Norbo Tshering Zorpo, a devotee from Arunachal Pradesh.
The discourse included the teaching on the three principal paths Lamtso Namsum and the lifelong empowerment (Tsewang).
The Dalai Lama is on a three-day visit to Kalimpong, where he inaugurated the Golden Tharpa Monastery on Sunday.
From here, he will proceed to the Sikkim. (ANI)
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