{"id":69576,"date":"2017-06-03T11:37:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T06:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=69576"},"modified":"2017-06-03T11:37:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T06:07:02","slug":"pm-modi-presents-urga-kanjur-buddist-temple-head-priest-times-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=69576","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi presents &#8216;Urga Kanjur&#8217; to Buddist temple head priest | Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST PETERSBURG: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday presented over 100 volumes of &#8216;Urga Kanjur&#8217; to the head priest of the Datsan Gunzechoinei Buddhist Temple here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Urga Kanjur&#8217; is a sacred Tibetan Buddhist text.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PM presents Urga Kanjur to Jampa Donor, Buda Balzheivich Badmayev, Head Priest, Datsan Gunzechoinei Buddhist Temple, St Petersburg,&#8221; Office of the Prime Minister said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Modi, who is on an official visit here, met President Vladimir Putin on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Urga edition of the Tibetan Kanjur was unknown till 1955 when Prof Raghu Vira brought to India its complete set of 104 volumes with a volume containing the catalogue. It was presented to him by Mongolian prime minister as a unique bibliographic rarity.<\/p>\n<div data-type=\"twitter\" data-handle=\"narendramodi_in\" data-handlename=\"narendramodi_in\" data-image=\"http:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/2548637061\/5xk4yfopm3b80c9pdp9l_mini.jpeg\" data-favoritecount=\"137\" data-retweetcount=\"50\" data-status=\"PM presented Urga Kanjur to Jampa Donor, Buda Balzheivich Badmayev, Head Priest, Datsan Gunzechoinei Buddhist Templ... https:\/\/t.co\/2ZOFvjiU1n\" data-createdat=\"1496390616000\" data-id=\"870551457010864128\">\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PM presents Urga Kanjur to Jampa Donor, Buda Balzheivich Badmayev, Head Priest, Datsan Gunzechoinei Buddhist Temple, St Petersburg. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TINSiWKCDH\">pic.twitter.com\/TINSiWKCDH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PMO India (@PMOIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PMOIndia\/status\/870535998412701696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PM presented Urga Kanjur to Jampa Donor, Buda Balzheivich Badmayev, Head Priest, Datsan Gunzechoinei Buddhist Temple, St. Petersburg <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I61rgn8nZH\">pic.twitter.com\/I61rgn8nZH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; narendramodi_in (@narendramodi_in) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi_in\/status\/870551457010864128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On the second day of his Russia visit, Modi visited Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. He also left a message in Gujarati language at the institute, said a tweet by the Indian Embassy in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>It also has the archives of the Orientalists that contains some valuable documents on the history of the Oriental Studies in Russia. It has manuscripts and xylographs.<\/p>\n<p>He also met Tigran Sargasyan, Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission and former Prime Minister of Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>India and Russia on Thursday agreed on early commencement of negotiations for a free trade agreement with the five-nation Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST PETERSBURG: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday presented over 100 volumes of &#8216;Urga Kanjur&#8217; to the head priest of the Datsan Gunzechoinei Buddhist Temple here. &#8216;Urga Kanjur&#8217; is a sacred Tibetan Buddhist text. &#8220;PM presents Urga Kanjur to Jampa Donor, Buda Balzheivich Badmayev, Head Priest, Datsan Gunzechoinei Buddhist Temple, St Petersburg,&#8221; Office of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}