Dalai Lama to inaugurate Tibetan festival in Guwahati

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will inaugurate the five-day Festival of Tibetan Art and Culture beginning here on February 2.
The Dalai Lama, who is scheduled to arrive in the city on February 1, will also lead an Inter-faith conclave organised by the LBS Foundation at the Rabindra Bhavan on the same afternoon, Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile MP Karma Yeshi told PTI today.
The next morning, he will deliver the First LBS Founders' Commemorative Lecture on 'A Human Approach to Peace and the Individual' at Nehru Stadium, Yeshi said.
And in the afternoon, the Dalai Lama will inaugurate the Festival of Tibetan Art and Culture at the Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra showcasing Tibetan culture, art, handicraft and cuisine made by Tibetan refugees.

Visitors to the festival would witness Tibet's traditional thangka paintings, enjoy Tibetan cuisine, butter sculpture, he said.