<p align="justify"> Prime Minister Narendra Modi today presented over 100 volumes of 'Urga Kanjur' to the head priest of the Datsan Gunzechoinei Buddhist Temple here.<br /><br />'Urga Kanjur' is a sacred Tibetan Buddhist text.<br /><br />"PM presents Urga Kanjur to Jampa Donor, Buda Balzheivich Badmayev, Head Priest, Datsan Gunzechoinei Buddhist Temple, St Petersburg," Office of the Prime Minister said in a tweet.<br /><br />Modi also shared some pictures of his visit to the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.<br /><br />Modi, who is on an official visit here, met President Vladimir Putin yesterday.</p>.<p align="justify"><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />The institute has manuscripts and early printed books consisting of more than 100 thousand items in 65 living and dead languages.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />He also met Tigran Sargasyan, Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission and former Prime Minister of Armenia.<br /><br />India and Russia yesterday agreed on early commencement of negotiations for a free trade agreement with the five- nation Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).</p>
<p align="justify"> Prime Minister Narendra Modi today presented over 100 volumes of 'Urga Kanjur' to the head priest of the Datsan Gunzechoinei Buddhist Temple here.<br /><br />'Urga Kanjur' is a sacred Tibetan Buddhist text.<br /><br />"PM presents Urga Kanjur to Jampa Donor, Buda Balzheivich Badmayev, Head Priest, Datsan Gunzechoinei Buddhist Temple, St Petersburg," Office of the Prime Minister said in a tweet.<br /><br />Modi also shared some pictures of his visit to the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.<br /><br />Modi, who is on an official visit here, met President Vladimir Putin yesterday.</p>.<p align="justify"><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />The institute has manuscripts and early printed books consisting of more than 100 thousand items in 65 living and dead languages.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />He also met Tigran Sargasyan, Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission and former Prime Minister of Armenia.<br /><br />India and Russia yesterday agreed on early commencement of negotiations for a free trade agreement with the five- nation Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).</p>