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Dalai Lama to inaugurate International Buddha Seminar in Bodhgaya today

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Bodhgaya, February 13, 2006-Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama will today inaugurate the week-long celebration of the 2550th birth anniversary of Lord Buddha.

The seminar has been organised by the Mahabodhi Society at Kalchakra Maidan in Bodh Gaya.
Dalai Lama will later release a special edition of the magazine ‘Sambodhi’ at the ceremony. The inauguration of ‘Tripitika Chanting’ would also take place, which would last for a month.
The keynote address at the seminar will be delivered by Chief Justice of Sri Lanka Sarath De Silva and president of Mahabodhi Society of India, Dr Bhupendra Kumar Modi among others.

Buddhist scholars from various countries like India, Taiwan, Bhutan and other countries are expected to participate in the seminar.
Yesterday, Dalai Lama inaugurated a three-day International Conference on heritage of India at the historic city of Nalanda in Bihar. Scholars from different fields like history, archaeology, art, philosophy and religion attended the conference from different continents- Asia, Europe, North America and South America- to deliver lectures on the seven themes related to the heritage of Nalanda.

Dalai Lama is on a five-day visit to attend various programmes at Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies.

A two-day seminar on “contribution of foreign monasteries in propagating Buddhism in India” will commence from February 14 while an International Homeopathic Conference will be held after this two-day seminar.

The seminar is expected to be informative and useful for all, as leading homeopathic doctors from over 16 countries will discuss on “incurable disease and their solution”. (ANI)

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