His Holiness talks about ethics and compassion…
Dalai Lama
Living Compassion, by the Dalai Lama
In an accessible, humorous and lively manner he offers precious insights into the universal human values of forgiveness and tolerance…
Is there any possibility of developing more compassion? By the Dalai Lama
Suppose a person stays in an empty, remote place—just a person alone—very healthy, highly educated, very wise, and physically very strong. As that person lives alone, there’s no possibility of his becoming wealthy or famous; there’s no possibility of his producing good food or building good shelter; he cannot become a hero. All benefits of this worldly life are entirely dependent upon other factors, mainly on other human beings…
They Made The Journey With His Holiness In Their Hearts
The village was in a valley surrounded by mountains and grasslands covered with sheep. The villagers welcomed them in and shared their food. Though their dialect was incomprehensible to the Tibetans and Chinese, these country folk brought tea to their guests and treated them like royalty…
Samdhong Rinpoche talks about Tibetan Buddhism and meditation.
Samdhong Rinpoche was born in Kham, in eastern Tibet, a region known for its warrior tradition. He fled Lhasa in 1959, just after the Dalai Lama…
51st anniversary of the Lhasa Uprising in Tibet.
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…
No Beginning, no End, by Dalai Lama
If we were to maintain that there must be a beginning at some point somewhere to consciousness, a big question mark would arise for us — how did that first moment of consciousness come about? …
Luminosity of the Mind, by HH Dalai Lama
In relation to the nature of mind, what is luminosity? In this respect it might be interesting to reflect on a passage which one finds in certain texts which says that ‘between the arisal of different instances of conceptual thought, the clear light nature of mind arises uninterruptedly’…
