Spiritual journey to India features the Kalachakra festival and the Dalai Lama

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Spiritual journey to India features the Kalachakra festival and the Dalai Lama

September 3, 2016;

By Alexandrea Golden, Los Angeles Times – 1 September 2016

Kick off 2017 by spending nine days in India at the 34th Kalachakra festival, presided over by the Dalai Lama. Prayers, teachings and ritual dances highlight the festival’s activities.

Perillo’s Learning Journeys hosts the trip that spends two days in the sacred city of Bodhgaya at the Tibetan Buddhist festival before traveling to Varanasi, one of Hinduism’s spiritual capitals.

While there, travelers will meet with a local family and an astrologer, attend an evening Hindu ceremony on the Ganges River and celebrate a Hindu guru’s birthday.

Dates: Jan. 4-12