Gaden Ngamchoe 2008
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama presides over a Gaden Ngamchoe, day of Je Tsongkhapa’s Parinirvana, prayer session in Dharamsala on Sunday, December 21, 2008. All over Tibet, Buddhists observe 25th day of the 10th month of the Tibetan Lunar calendar by offering lamps in monasteries, temples, stupas, and at homes to venerate the mortal departure of Lama Tsongkhapa, a great 14th century Tibetan Buddhist master who trained the first Dalai Lama and later became the founder of the Gelugpa (Yellow Hat) school of Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan PM Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, visiting Kalmykia PM Mr Viladmir Singleev and head of Kalmyk Buddhists Telo Rinpoche also attended the prayer session.(Phayul/Photo: Sonam Tsering)