DHARAMSHALA, APRIL 5: His Holiness the Dalai Lama left today for Japan where he will participate in various programmes until April 17.
On April 7, the Tibetan leader is scheduled to participate in a prayer ceremony and a talk in Sendai in Miyagi, one of the worst hit areas of the 2011 earthquake. He will take part in a prayer ceremony for the victims of 2011 Tsunami and also participate in an interactive session with survivors and people from the disaster struck regions.
His Holiness will participate in a two-day conference on ‘Mapping the Mind: A Dialogue Between Modern Scientists and Buddhist Science’ organized by Koko Research Center of Kyoto University and the Mind & Life Institute.
The Tibetan leader will give a teaching on Tsongkhapa’s Concise Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (lamrim dudon) and Geshe Langri Thangpa’s 8 Verses of Training the Mind (lojong tsik gyema)in Koyasan, Wakayama, on April 13 and 14. His Holiness will also confer the Vairocana-abhisambodhi Initiation (namnang ngoenjang wang).
His Holiness’ Japan tour will end with a day-long teaching on Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo’s 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva (laklen sodunma) at Hotel Okura on April 17.
