The Dalai Lama, the exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhists, is to visit a Northern Ireland reconciliation centre on Sunday.
He is to spend three days meeting a number of people and groups in the province under the theme of The Spiritual Dimension of Peace.
His Holiness will visit the Corrymeela Centre in Ballycastle, which marks its fortieth anniversary this year.
The Dalai Lama, 70, last visited Northern Ireland in 2000.
He is arriving in the province after two-days of engagements in Scotland.
The Dalai Lama has lived in India since he fled from Chinese troops in 1959 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his non-violent struggle for Tibet.
On Monday, the Dalai Lama will officially open the headquarters of Mediation Northern Ireland in south Belfast.
On Tuesday, Belfast Cathedral will host the last event of the Dalai Lama’s visit, the 2005 Way of Peace celebration.
He will be welcomed by Dean Houston McKelvey, and meet privately with clergy of the various Christian denominations and other world faiths in the Chapel of Unity.
Dean McKelvey said he would be “delighted” to be hosting the Dalai Lama.
