<< Participants of the 8th Buddhist conference held at Varanasi

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is also expected to address the inauguration of the Buddhist conference, which will be participated by religious leaders, reincarnated lamas, abbots and learned teachers from four schools of the Tibetan Buddhism and the traditional Bon.

The 3-day Buddhist conference will be held at the Norbulinka Institute, Dharamsala, from 3 July 2006. This is the 9th Buddhist conference till date. The last conference was held at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh state of India in 2003.

These conferences are being held to preserve and promote the Tibetan religious traditions.