Bihar state is to invite HH the Dalai Lama, along with Shri Ram Nath Kovind, the President of India, to be guests at an event marking the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Vishwa Shanti Stupa on the Ratnagiri hills in Rajgir. The famous Buddhist philanthropist and monk Nichidatsu Fujii Guruji initiated the building of the Stupa, also known as Peace Pagoda, which was inaugurated in 1969.