Gangtok, Feb 4 : The Tibetan temporal head Dalai Lama will inaugurate a 135-feet tall statue of Buddha at Ravangla in Sikkim on March 26.
The Dalai Lame will also open a Buddha Park being built here. Buddhist devotees from Southeast Asian countries have been flocking to Sikkim in recent years, after it has been added to the Buddhist tourist circuit.
Parts of the holy Buddha relics will be brought on this occasion from Southeast Asian countries, a state government official said.
Ravangla is a small tourist town in South Sikkim from where the moutain peaks of Kanchejunga, Pandim, Sinialchu and Kabru are clearly visible.
Ravangla has a sizeable Tibetan community, and the ralang monastery of the Kagyu school of tibetan Buddhism is located six km away from Ravangla.
