The Dalai Lama has been warmly welcomed on his arrival in Riga, Latvia, where he is to give two days of teachings on the “Heart Sutra” and the “37 Practices of Bodhisattvas”. He arrived on the Latvian Restoration of Independence Day. Latvia’s independence was originally proclaimed in 1918, and restored on May 4, 1990. His Holiness is on an 11-day tour of Europe.