Pema Khandu, the young energetic and well-educated Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh must be congratulated for taking steps to include Tuting in the Upper Siang district of his state under the Buddhist Tourist Circuit of the country. Khandu’s intention is clear: tourists who come from various countries of the world to visit the Buddhist sites like Nalanda, Bodhgaya, Vaishali and Rajgir in Bihar, and Sarnath (in Varanasi), Shravasti, Kausambi, Kapilavastu and Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh, should also come and visit Tuting in Arunachal Pradesh. According to Khandu, Tuting – also known as Pemakod in popular Buddhist lore – is a place blessed by Guru Padmasambhava and is considered as one of the most sacred places for spiritual practitioners to meditate and practice dharma. Guru Padmasambhava, on the other hand, is also known as Guru Rinpoche, and he was an 8th century Buddhist master from the Indian subcontinent. From a marketing point of view, there is a global market of 450 million Buddhists. Though the majority of Buddhist pilgrims are relatively low-spending travellers, opening up and slowly promoting Tuting, along with Tawang, Chowkham and Namsai will definitely bring significant tourism revenue to the state. Arunachal Pradesh has been witnessing a significant jump in revenue collection from tourism, and the state now needs to spread/distribute the incoming tourists in order to ease the increasing pressure on Tawang. While the Union Tourism Ministry has identified several countries as sources for tourists for the existing Buddha Circuit, it will be important for Pema Khandu to tread carefully while placing Tuting in it. One important factor is the distance and condition of the road from Pasighat to Tuting, a challenging 360-plus kilometres. Pasighat on its part, however, has suddenly become well-connected by air, road as well as railway. While that ‘corner’ of the country now has three operating airports – Dibrugarh, Lilabari and Pasighat, trains from Guwahati go up to Murkongselek, which is only 36 km away. The Bogibeel bridge over the Brahmaputra, on the other hand, has shortened road travel almost unbelievably in the recent past. The Assam Chief Minister meanwhile can learn a couple of tips from his counterpart as far as selective and niche marketing of destinations to dedicated tourists are concerned. Assam, in fact, can develop a Buddhist Circuit of its own connecting Suryyapahar, Hajo, Silonijan-Balipathar, Titabor, Chalapathar, Naharkatiya and Margherita, and then link it to Tawang, Namsai, Chowkham and Tuting.