The summit of world religions in Moscow can pass without the Dalai Lama

The spiritual leaders of the Russian Buddhists can ignore participation in the summit of world religions, which will be held on July 4-5, 2006 in Moscow. This was reported to the "independent newspaper" by the chandzhin-lam of the Republic of Kalmykia Talo Tulka Rinpoche.

According to him, the leaders of the Buddhist communities of Kalmykia, Buryatia and Tuva lick their participation in the upcoming Moscow Religious Forum with the invitation of the Buddhists of the whole world of the Dalai Lama XIV to him. "The inviting side of the July summit of world religions is the department of external church relations of the Russian Orthodox Church. However, the invitation to participate in the forum has not been sent to its Holiness. I had a conversation with Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, who is organizing invitations, but did not receive a clear response regarding Dalai Lama," said NG Shanma Lama Kalmykia.

Talo Tulka Rinpoche emphasized that the Russian Foreign Ministry does not create obstacles to the arrival of the Dalai Lama: “I was told in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that, since the church in Russia is separated from the state, and the participants of the religious forum are invited by the Russian Orthodox Church , they do not see diplomatic or political grounds for refusing to visa in the Russian Foreign Ministry.” The only problem for the arrival of the Dalai Lama to Russia is thus the timely sending of an invitation to the Buddhist leader from the organizers of the forum remains.

"As far as I know, the leaders of various religious associations will take part in the work of the Moscow Religious Summit. Including not the most numerous. It is reliably known that the Pope will not come to Moscow. And now the issue of the arrival of his Holiness the Dalai Lama, which is worshiped by hundreds of millions of Buddhists around the world, is still hanging. Summit, ”said Talo Tulka Rinpoche.

Shandzhin-Lama Kalmykia said NG that if the Dalai Lama XIV does not receive a timely invitation, then representatives of the Buddhist communities of Russia do not see the point of participating in it: "This position was agreed by me with the lamas of Buryatia and Tuva."

According to the leader of the Kalmyk Buddhists, clarity regarding the prospects for the arrival of the Dalai Lama to Moscow will come in a week. Obviously, after that it will be possible to talk about whether the boycott of the forum will be held by Russian Buddhists or not.