(TibetanReview.net, Apr10’25) – Around 1,300 people from the Spiti Valley, which borders Tibet in Himachal Pradesh state of India, gathered at the Tsuglakhang, Dharamshala, on Apr 10 to make a long-life prayer offering to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
The ceremony was led by Serkong Rinpoche, who belongs to the Spiti Valley. Those who attended it on the stage included a small boy who is the reincarnation of the former Abbot of Tabo Monastery, founded in Spiti Valley in 996 CE by the famous Tibetan Buddhist master and translator lotsawa Rinchen Sangpo.
The Dalai Lama told the Spiti people that their loyalty and devotion was a reason for him to wish to live a long life.
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