On July 07, 2012, the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington Indiana is to host a Multi-Cultural Festival to Honor the Dalai Lama's Birthday comprised of religious and cultural events at the Kumbum Chamtse Ling Temple in Bloomington Indiana, US. 

Lamas led by the Head of the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center Arjia Rinpoche will preach “San Namdagma” and “16 Apostle Sutra” and perform religious rituals. By preaching those sutras people can stay away from any misfortune, illness and sufferings. These sutras bring in wealth, long life and virtues. 

 

The Schedule for the event is as following:

10:00 am to 05:00 pm Crafts booths, food and music & karaoke, silent auction

01:00 pm Prayers in the Temple

04:00 pm International Fashion Show

05:30 pm Movie "Kundun" 
 

His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (Danzanjamts), is both the head of state and the spiritual leader of Tibet. He was born on July 06, 1935 in a small hamlet located in Taktser, Amdo, northeastern Tibet. At the age of two the child, who was named Lhamo Dhondup at that time was recognized as the reincarnation of the XIII Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso. 

His Holiness began his monastic education at the age of six. The curriculum consisted of five major and five minor subjects. The major subjects were logic, Tibetan art and culture, Sanskrit, medicine, and Buddhist philosophy which was further divided into a further five categories: Prajnaparimita, the perfection of wisdom; Madhyamika, the philosophy of the middle Way; Vinaya, the canon of monastic discipline; Abidharma, metaphysics; and Pramana, logic and epistemology. The five minor subjects were poetry, music and drama, astrology, motre and phrasing and synonyms. At 23 he sat for his final examination in the Jokhang Temple, Lhasa, during the annual Monlam (prayer) Festival in 1959. He passed with honours and was awarded the Geshe Lharampa degree, the highest-level degree equivalent to a doctorate of Buddhist philosophy.

The Dalai Lamas are believed to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and patron saint of Tibet. Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who have postponed their own nirvana and chosen to take rebirth in order to serve humanity.