November 9, 2009 12:39 PM

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Dalai Lama donates Rs 20 lakh for Tawang hospital building?

The Dalai Lama today inaugurated a district hospital at Tawang and donated 20 lakh rupees for its building on the second day of his visit to Arunachal Pradesh. Later he visited a holy ground where he planted saplings and also distributed some of them among the<br/><br/>thousands of devotees assembled there. Addressing the devotees, the 74-year-old Tibetan monk asked the younger generation to join monasteries to carry forward Buddha's message of peace. Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Dorjee Kandu urged the people to preserve the Buddhist culture in this part of the country.<br/>

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