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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In the Shadow of the Buddha

Posted on 8 September 2011 by Buddhism Now

For nearly a decade, Matteo Pistono smuggled out of Tibet evidence of atrocities by the Chinese government, showing it to the United States government, human rights organisations, and anyone who would listen. Yet Pistono did not originally intend to fight for social justice in Tibet – he had gone there as a Buddhist pilgrim.

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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.

by Dolma Beresford

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Tibetan “singing nun” arrives in exile after second period of imprisonment

Posted on 21 September 2010 by Buddhism Now
Photo: Ani Palden Choedron © ICT

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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They Made The Journey With His Holiness In Their Hearts

Posted on 26 May 2010 by Buddhism Now

From Tibet to Ojai and back again.

Tibetan Aid Foundation

They live in a one-bedroom rental, in Ojai, a small town in Southern California. The father, thirty-four, works as supervisor of Inn-room dining at the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa. The mother, thirty-three, works part time at the Inn and cooks meals on demand in order to help support the family.  They have two young boys, one in preschool and the other in the first grade. They have a small dog that they bought for the kids.

The father works in the afternoon and evening and walks the children to school every morning. Sometimes he and his wife walk the children together. When the younger boy wanders too much, the father puts him on his shoulders.

Their house has a small yard.  The two children ride a tire-swing laughing with neighborhood friends. (more…)

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51st anniversary of the Lhasa Uprising in Tibet.

Posted on 9 March 2010 by Buddhism Now

On this 51st anniversary (10th March 2010) of the Lhasa uprising in Tibet, I’d like to talk about one of the bravest people I’ve ever met, a Tibetan monk called Palden Gyatso.

Palden Gyatso Freetibet.org

In 1992 Palden Gyatso finished serving his sentence and escaped to India, smuggling with him several torture instruments used on him in prison. Photo: © Freetibet.org

Palden Gyatso was born in 1931 in a place called Panam, the Gyantse District of Tibet, and he was ordained at the age of ten. During the 1959 uprising he led a hundred-man force against the Chinese. It was made up of monks from Drepung monastery but they never fought. He was first arrested in 1959 and spent the next thirty-three years in prisons and labour camps, being severely tortured and brutally punished for refusing to denounce the Dalai Lama and for refusing to say that Tibet was really China. (more…)

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Tibet the story of a tragedy

Posted on 12 February 2010 by Buddhism Now

Buddhist VideoThis is very moving Buddhist video by Ludovic Segarra, the French film maker.

This Buddhist film contains some old footage of Tibet and goes back to 1938 to the Sheffer mission sent by the German Third Reich.

Composed of exceptional scenes this documentary reports the history of the Tibetan people who, as the commentary says, have been oppressed in silence for forty-five years. watch the video

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