Panchen Lama overlooks Tibetan ritual in Xigaze
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THE first Kalachakra ritual given by the 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu concluded yesterday. The four-day wheel of time ritual was held in the New Palace of the Panchen Lama at the request of the monks of the Zhaxi Lhunbo Lamasery, the home temple of Panchen Lamas, in Xigaze.
It was the first large-scale kalachakra ritual held in Tibet in 60 years. Records from the Zhaxi Lhunbo Lamasery showed that the 10th Panchen Lama performed one in 1954.
The ceremony began with a closed-door observance by senior monks from Labrang Lamasery in Gansu Province and Zhaxi Lhunbo Lamasery every morning.
Every afternoon, Panchen Lama gave four hour sermons, chanting mantras, explaining scripture and giving blessings.
Zhaxi Lhunbo Lamasery began preparations one month ago. A mandala made of colored sand by 20 senior monks was displayed to devotees yesterday.
Some 100 lamas and 5,000 monks and nuns from Tibet, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai and Yunnan attended the ritual that is to help people through the cycle of life. More than 100,000 believers attended the ritual each day.
Currently serving as vice president of the Buddhist Association of China, Panchen Lama, 26, has received some 1,000 initiations and given head-touching blessings to about 1.5 million Buddhists. In Zhaxi Lhunbo last December, he celebrated the 20th anniversary of his enthronement.
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