His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama recited a special sutra for Mongolians at the Buyant-Ukhaa complex on Sunday (20^th of November). Although the complex has 5000 seats, many worshipers still had to queue outside. TV9 and MNB broadcasted the Dalai Lama’s teaching live.

Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the world's most celebrated exile arrived in Ulaanbaatar on Friday. This is the ninth visit of the Dalai Lama, who made his first visit to Mongolia in 1979. It could also be the last chance for Mongolians to see 81-year-old spiritual leader . Although Mongolia is facing the coldest November temperatures in a decade, with temperatures falling to -40 degrees, devout Buddhists have not been deterred – many have travelled hundreds of miles across the country to see the Tibetan Buddhist; others have come from abroad, such as the Russian Republic of Buryatia, which shares the common Buddhist heritage with Mongolia.

'The four-day visit of the Dalai Lama is purely religious in nature and won't include any meetings with officials,' said D.Choijamts a ranking lama at the Gandantegchilen Monastry.

On Friday, China’s Foreign Ministry strongly urged Mongolia to cancel the Dalai Lama's visit for the sake of the “sound and steady” development of bilateral ties. In the past, China has protested against previous visits by the Dalai Lama; in 2002 it by briefly closed its border with Mongolia and in 2006 temporarily cancelled flights from Beijing.

Beijing views the Dalai Lama as a separatist seeking to split Tibet from China and strongly opposes all countries from hosting the monk; in September China also strongly denounced the European Union's parliament for receiving the Dalai Lama, saying the move could damage relations between the Brussels and Beijing.

Along with many thousands of other Tibetans, the Dalai Lama fled Tibet to India following an abortive uprising against Chinese rule. The People's Republic of China has ruled Tibet since 1959.