Dalai Lama and Auroville exhibition

On the occasion of the 90th Birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture presented an exhibition on “Dalai Lama and Auroville—Three Memorable Visits (1973, 1993 & 2009)”. The exchanges between the community of Auroville and Tibetans have been frequent and regular, starting from Auroville’s inauguration day in 1968, when soil of Tibet was put into the urn by a young Tibetan girl, continuing in 1971, when the Mother took 12 Tibetan children into the Auroville school and in 1973 when the Dalai Lama spent two days in Auroville and Pondicherry (on 17 January, he met the Mother in the Ashram),

In December 1991, the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture became a unit of the Auroville Foundation through a resolution of the Governing Board under Dr Karan Singh and Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, the famous art and Tibetan scholar. In January 1993, His Holiness agreed to be the Patron of the Pavilion. Later in the year, he came to Auroville to lay the Foundation Stone of the Pavilion, and in January 2009 he returned to inaugurate the building.