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The Buddhist citizens of Kalmykia were jubilant, as their long awaited dream of twelve years has finally come true. His Holiness the Dalai Lama yesterday left Dharamsala on a three day visit to the Russian Republic of Kalmykia, a Buddhist dominated region in Russia.

The Buddhist faithful in southern Russia busily prepared for a visit by the Dalai Lama, after Moscow had reportedly decided to finally issue a visa to Tibet's spiritual leader over fierce Chinese objections.

Some five hundred people were packed in Kasturi Country Club, a 5,000 square feet hall that has been a venue for many gatherings for the Tibetan Community in New York. Today, they were there to celebrate the eleventh anniversary of founding of the Cholsum Dance Group.

In what is seen as a strange decision, the Maoist rebels have announced two-day long district-wide bandh in south-western district of Rupandehi-that is home to Lumbini, the birth place of Lord Buddha.

Latest updates that we are getting in, indicate that Ngawang Younten, one of our Delhi youth congress members, has been acutely injured and was last seen with a heavily bandaged arm being taken away to Tihar jail along with 15 other Delhi University students

Sleeping on the streets of Mcleod Ganj in late November is definitely not a thought to salvage or a picture to frame, yet huddled up inside the blue tent, the hunger strikers woke up to smiles and a cozy ambience of their nationalism

If anyone in Russia should be expected to defend local self-rule against a new Kremlin bid to centralize power, it is the people of the unique Republic of Kalmykia — the only predominantly Buddhist region in Europe.

Preparations are at the last stage in Lumbini and its surrounding for the Second International Buddhist Summit that starts from Tuesday.

The Dalai Lama intends to visit South Korea in May next year to attend religious functions on the occasion of the anniversary of Buddha's birthday, a senior aide to the Tibetan spiritual leader said Sunday.

China criticized Russia on Saturday over its decision to give the Dalai Lama a visa, the first Moscow has granted the Tibetan spiritual leader in a decade.