DHARAMSHALA, AUGUST 23: His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in Hamburg Friday for a six – day visit at the invitation of Tibetan Centre, Hamburg. He was received at the airport by Indian Consul General in Hamburg, Dr Vidhu Nair, among others.
Members of the Tibetan Community in Germany welcomed His Holiness on arrival at his hotel. His Holiness is also the patron of the Tibetan Centre.
The first public program will be an address by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on 23 August on secular ethics – Human life values which was already sold out two months ago.
From 24 to 25 August, His Holiness will give religious discourse on Shantideva’s A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life and the great 13th century Tibetan Master Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo’s 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give an Avalokiteshvara (the Bodhisattva of Compassion – Jigten Wangchuk) initiation on 26 August. All the talks and teachings will take place at Congress Centre, Hamburg.
His Holiness will address the Press on 23 August in the afternoon.
At the invitation of the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology, Society for Threatened Peoples and Tibet Initiative Deutschland, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will visit the exhibition Tibet – Destruction of an ancient civilization on 25 August. T
During the lunch break on 25 August, His Holiness will address members of Religion and Dialogue in Modern Societies from the Academy of World Religions of University of Hamburg.
On 26 August afternoon, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will address the 35th and 25th Anniversaries respectively of the Tibetan Community in Germany and the Tibet Initiative Deutschland’s celebrations in Hamburg.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will address participants of the ‘Finding Common Ground – Sino-Tibetan Conference’ in Hamburg before departing for India on 27 August. The conference will be attended by scholars, officials, activists, writers, Sinologists from Europe, US, Asia and Australia.
This is his fifth visit to Hamburg and 38th visit to Germany.
