On May 10, 2011, A.V.Prokhorenko, Member of St.Petersburg Government, Chairman of St.Petersburg Committee for External Relations, attended the opening of the third Ten-Day Proceedings of Buddhist Culture in St.Petersburg, devoted to 270th anniversary of Buddhism recognition as the official religion in Russia. A.V.Prokhorenko welcomed the participants to the ceremony, a solemn meeting of Pandito Khambo Lama Damba Ayushev, Head of Russia’s Buddhists, with the gifts, presented by Khambo Lama Itigelov to Tsar Nicholas II at the Tercentenary of Romanov’s House. The ceremony was held at the Russian Ethnographic Museum
On May 10, 2011, A.V.Prokhorenko, Member of St.Petersburg Government, Chairman of St.Petersburg Committee for External Relations, attended the opening of the third Ten-Day Proceedings of Buddhist Culture in St.Petersburg, devoted to 270th anniversary of Buddhism recognition as the official religion in Russia. A.V.Prokhorenko welcomed the participants to the ceremony, a solemn meeting of Pandito Khambo Lama Damba Ayushev, Head of Russia’s Buddhists, with the gifts, presented by Khambo Lama Itigelov to Tsar Nicholas II at the Tercentenary of Romanov’s House. The ceremony was held at the Russian Ethnographic Museum.
Chairman of the Committee noted that the leadership of St.Petersburg Buddhist religious community “Datsan Gunzechoyney” was making great efforts to promote peace and harmony in the northern capital. The activities of the third Ten-Day Proceedings of Buddhist Culture will contribute to strengthening of these principles in the life of St.Petersburg.
News Source: St.Petersburg Committee for External Relations