In Bylakuppe, following the Mind and Life Conference, the Tibetan people living there offered HH the Dalai Lama a Tenshug or long life prayer at Sera Monastery. The following day His Holiness inaugurated the new assembly hall at Tashi Lhunpo Monastery at a ceremony graced by the Governor of Karnataka, Shri Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala and attended by more 30,000 monks, nuns and laypeople.