Before the Dalai Lama's arrival in Hubli where he will conduct a series of religious classes, a notice was sent to all the communities stating that followers of Dorje Shugden, addressed as Dolgyal (a derogatory term), would not be allowed to attend the seminar. Passes were issued only to those people and monks who gave a written statement that they were not followers of this deity.

Following this, about 100 monks who had come from the Bayalukuppe settlement near Mysore have returned home while many others in the Gangen Monastery in Mundgod have been sequestered in their dwellings.

On the Tibetan Settlement authorities request who feared that there might be trouble, the police also interrogated several monks.