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Long Life Ceremony

March 31, 2015;

His Holiness the Dalai Lama accepted a long life offering led by the abbot of the Ganden Lhatse Monastery in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, the monastery where His Holiness gave his first sermon outside Tibet in 1959 after fleeing to India. The ceremony was held privately inside his residential premises, around 50 monks took part. Guru Rinpoche said the ritual, Kadam Thikley Chodruk, and prayers for the ceremony were unique to his monastery.

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