On the first day of the sacred month of SaKa Dawa, the festival honouring the life of the Buddha, His Holiness the Dalai Lama blessed Tibetans and other devotees with a conferment of Avalokiteshvara’s six-syllable empowerment, Joluk Chenresig Yege Drukmey Jenang. SaKa Dawa is the fourth month of the Tibetan calendar and celebrates Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death as well as his other holy activities.