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January 7
Media interviews; audience with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama at Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath

January 8
Morning: With His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, visit Dhamekha Stupa and Mulaganda Koti Vihar, parikarma, prayer, and lighting 1,000 butter lamps
Afternoon: Audience with Tibetan groups

His Holiness Karmapa and His Holiness the Dalai Lama pose with yound monks at the Mulaganda Koti Vihar

January 9
Morning: Puja, offering and lighting 1,000 butter lamps in the Main Temple; prayers and audiences
Afternoon: Prayers and audiences

January 10
Prayers and audiences

January 11
Morning: Prayers and audiences
After lunch: Visits to Burmese, Chinese, Japanese, Nyingma, and Thai Temples
Afternoon: Audience with students of Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath

January 12
Afternoon: Visit to Alice Project Universal School, Sarnath

January 13
Prayers and audiences

January 14
Travel to Kushinagar to visit Buddhist sacred places: Parinirvana Temple, Ailing Spot, Black Stupa

January 15
Return to Vajravidya Institute, Sarnath

January 16
Lunch with tutor, Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

January 17
Morning: Prayers and audiences
Evening: Attend cultural program of students at Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath

January 18
Outdoor picnic at Lakhani, Varanasi

January 19
Prayers and audiences

January 20
Afternoon: Consecration of a newly installed white marble slab bearing the teaching of the Four Noble Truths at Mulaganda Koti Vihar, Sarnath

January 21
Prayers and audiences

January 22
Lunch with tutor, Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

January 23
Thanks-giving and photo session

January 24
Travel to Bodhgaya to attend Kalachakra Empowerment