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Words that live on, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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Dalai Lama: I never get angry
Posted on 15 May 2012 by Buddhism Now
Tibet’s exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, has said that he expects to return to the country, which he fled in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
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The 76-year-old monk told Today presenter Sarah Montague that his own health remained quite good “so I am expecting another 10, 20 years. So within that, definitely things will change”. (more…)
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Unbiased compassion, by Dalai Lama
Posted on 26 March 2011 by Buddhism Now
Short video by His Holiness the Dalai Lama about unbiased compassion.
This clip from the question and answer session with Thai Buddhists held at his residence in Dharamsala, India, on March 15th, 2011.
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Compassionate Ethics in Difficult Times, by The Dalai Lama
Posted on 1 February 2011 by Buddhism Now
His Holiness Dalai Lama talks about ethics and compassion in his public talk in Albany New York on May 6th, 2009. Duration: 74mins
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Tantric View of Nonattachment, by Francesca Fremantle
Posted on 27 January 2011 by Buddhism Now
Detachment, or nonattachment, can easily be seen in a negative light as indifference, and yet when understood in a certain way is absolutely fundamental to spiritual practice.
Tantra is described as giving both liberation and enjoyment, and constantly emphasises the blissful aspect of enlightenment; it is one of the many paradoxes of the spiritual path that the greatest enjoyment comes through detachment. Tantra teaches us to enjoy consciously, to enjoy with awareness, but awareness itself simultaneously causes and is the result of a subtle movement of detachment. This is not an external distancing of oneself from life or from people, but an inner separation from the lower, limited self, with its false perceptions of the external world. Ordinarily we identify completely with this little self, it lives our lives for us, and we experience everything through it, but at the same time it produces a sense of limitation and bondage, of being controlled by our reactions instead of being in charge of them. Whenever we catch sight of this mechanism in operation, and become aware of it as a direct experience, immediately there is a feeling of opening out, a sense of space in which we have room to stand back and see what is really happening. We experience a new and quite different kind of presence, an ‘I’ who is less personal, less involved, and who can observe calmly the unnecessary problems the little self creates. (more…)
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Living Compassion, by the Dalai Lama
Posted on 19 November 2010 by Buddhism Now
Living Compassion is edited highlights of H.H. the Dalai Lama’s public talks and Buddhist teachings given at Nottingham, UK in May 2008.
In an accessible, humorous and lively manner he offers precious insights into the universal human values of forgiveness and tolerance. He further suggests that not only must we find peace within ourselves, but also that we must cultivate compassion by living our compassion, thereby transforming ourselves and the world around us.
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Kalachakra mandala created by Losang Samten
Posted on 9 November 2010 by Buddhism Now
Kalachakra mandala created by Losang Samten
in November of 2009 at the University of the Arts
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Photographed and edited by Thomas Bugaj
Audio recording and additional help provided by Christopher Adams
Special thanks to Barbara Montegomery, The Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia, The University of the Arts, UArts Media Arts Department, Media Arts Equipment Office, Karl Staven
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Tibetan “singing nun” arrives in exile after second period of imprisonment
Posted on 21 September 2010 by Buddhism Now
Ani Palden Choedron Photo © ICT
Palden Choedron, one of a group of 14 courageous Tibetan women who became known as the “singing nuns” after they smuggled out a recording of patriotic and religious songs from their prison cells, has arrived in exile in Dharamsala, India. After her release from an eight-year sentence in Drapchi prison, Palden Choedron attempted to escape from Tibet but was caught and served three years in a “reform through labour” camp before her second, successful escape from Tibet and arrival in India on September 1. (more…)
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Human life is extremely hard to find, by Geshe Sonam Rinchen
Posted on 15 July 2010 by Buddhism Now
To remind us of the rarity of a human life like ours, Shantideva used the following analogy:
Therefore the Conqueror said that just like
A turtle putting its neck through the hole
Of a yoke floating on a vast ocean,
A human life is extremely hard to find.
A blind turtle lives on the ocean bed and surfaces just once every hundred years. A golden yoke floats on the vast ocean, blown here and there by the wind. What are the chances of the turtle surfacing at just the right time and in just the right place to be able to put its head through the yoke? Our chances of gaining a life of freedom and fortune are just as improbable. You may think it couldn’t possibly be so difficult, but cyclic existence is like a vast and stormy ocean and we are like the turtle that spends most of its time in the depths and only surfaces very occasionally. For most of our lives we have been in bad rebirths and it happens only very rarely that we emerge from these into a good rebirth. (more…)
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