<p>Gangtok: Tibetan spiritual leader the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, arrived here on Monday morning for a three-day visit to Sikkim after a gap of 13 years.</p><p>He will impart teachings on the "Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas" during his stay in the Himalayan state.</p><p>The Dalai Lama landed at the Libing army helipad around 10.30 am in East Sikkim where he was received by Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang.</p><p>He was also accorded a grand welcome by monks of various monasteries in the state with a traditional Buddhist ritual of dance and prayer known as 'Sherbang'. Some members of the exiled Tibetan Parliament, Tibetan Settlement Office and Local Tibetan Assembly were also present to greet him.</p>.Museum dedicated to Dalai Lama inaugurated in Mcleodganj.<p>The 87-year-old Dalai Lama went to a hotel in Gangtok and hundreds of people queued up on both sides of the highway from Deorali to Zero Point to get a glimpse of the spiritual leader.</p><p>He will impart teachings on the "Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas" on Tuesday at Paljor Stadium around 50 km from the India-China border at Nathula.</p><p>"Around 40,000 devotees will attend the event at Paljor Stadium to get blessings from the Dalai Lama," Gangtok SP Tenzing Loden Lepcha said.</p><p>Dalai Lama had last visited Sikkim in 2010.</p><p>He will also virtually lay the foundation stones of Karmapa Park project at Rumtek and Gyalwa Lhatsun Chenpo statue at Simmik Khamdong constituency in Gangtok district, officials said.</p><p>He is scheduled to stay in Gangtok till Thursday morning when he will leave for Salugara in Siliguri, West Bengal.</p><p>The Dalai Lama's visit to Sikkim in October had been cancelled due to a flash flood that claimed the lives of scores of people and displaced thousands.</p>
<p>Gangtok: Tibetan spiritual leader the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, arrived here on Monday morning for a three-day visit to Sikkim after a gap of 13 years.</p><p>He will impart teachings on the "Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas" during his stay in the Himalayan state.</p><p>The Dalai Lama landed at the Libing army helipad around 10.30 am in East Sikkim where he was received by Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang.</p><p>He was also accorded a grand welcome by monks of various monasteries in the state with a traditional Buddhist ritual of dance and prayer known as 'Sherbang'. Some members of the exiled Tibetan Parliament, Tibetan Settlement Office and Local Tibetan Assembly were also present to greet him.</p>.Museum dedicated to Dalai Lama inaugurated in Mcleodganj.<p>The 87-year-old Dalai Lama went to a hotel in Gangtok and hundreds of people queued up on both sides of the highway from Deorali to Zero Point to get a glimpse of the spiritual leader.</p><p>He will impart teachings on the "Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas" on Tuesday at Paljor Stadium around 50 km from the India-China border at Nathula.</p><p>"Around 40,000 devotees will attend the event at Paljor Stadium to get blessings from the Dalai Lama," Gangtok SP Tenzing Loden Lepcha said.</p><p>Dalai Lama had last visited Sikkim in 2010.</p><p>He will also virtually lay the foundation stones of Karmapa Park project at Rumtek and Gyalwa Lhatsun Chenpo statue at Simmik Khamdong constituency in Gangtok district, officials said.</p><p>He is scheduled to stay in Gangtok till Thursday morning when he will leave for Salugara in Siliguri, West Bengal.</p><p>The Dalai Lama's visit to Sikkim in October had been cancelled due to a flash flood that claimed the lives of scores of people and displaced thousands.</p>