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By K. Balchand
The 17th Karmapa, Ugyen Trinley, is also participating in the nine-day service, which is being conducted at a decorated "pandal" with a capacity to accommodate more than 20,000 monks and Buddhist devotees. About 1.5 lakh pilgrims from various parts of the country and the world have registered so far. This is the third time that the ritual to initiate followers of the Mahayana sect into the "right path" for salvation is being conducted here. Last year, the "Kalchakra puja" had to be abandoned in the wake of the Dalai Lama taking ill all of a sudden. The Dalai Lama's discourse was preceded by a mass prayer for world peace and longevity of the exiled Tibetan leader. A tight security ring has been thrown around the two spiritual leaders besides the township in which three huge camps have been set up to accommodate the monks and the devout who have descended from Britain, Germany and the United States, besides Buddhist countries such as Thailand, Sri Lanka, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia and Japan. On the eve of the festival, the State Government-sponsored "Buddha Mahotsava" was inaugurated by the Rashtriya Janata Dal president, Laloo Prasad Yadav, who unravelled a Rs. 26.5-crore package, with Central assistance of Rs. 22.5 crores, for the development of tourism here.
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