This morning five organizations, the Tendhong Cultural Preservation Society (Mön), the International Jonang Well-being Association, the Domey-Mang-Bha-Ja-Sum Association, the alumni of Namgyal Higher Secondary School, Nepal, and the Sydney Tibetan Association came together to offer a prayer for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s long life at the Tsuglagkhang, the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written to Liz Truss to offer his congratulations on her election as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

After learning this morning that Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union and Nobel Peace Laureate had passed away, His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote to the Gorbachev Foundation to express his sadness.

When His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived at the Ladakh Gonpa Association's Dharma Centre, a huge community prayer hall at Choglamsar, Mr. Thupstan Chhewang, President of the Ladakh Buddhist Association, and Acharya Tenzin Wangtak, President of the All Ladakh Gonpa Association and other representatives were there to greet him.

His Holiness formally inaugurated a new center of learning at Thupstanling Gonpa, Diskit Tsal, Leh. Built by members of the local community it is a spacious center, open to all religious denominations, where there will be facilities for holding classes on Buddhist philosophy, a library, and so forth.