"Shri Narendra Modi met The Dalai Lama in January 2010 at the International Buddhist Heritage Seminar"
Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi met The Dalai Lama at the International Buddhist Heritage Seminar at Baroda in January 2010.Shri Narendra Modi announced that a centre for religion studies will be started at M S University. He also announced that a Buddhist temple will be constructed in the state. ‘This will not just be a place of worship or a revenue generation exercise to attract tourists, but also be developed as a centre of research on Buddhist philosophy,’ he said.