May 11, 2024
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - This morning His Holiness the Dalai Lama came to the Tsuglagkhang, the Main Tibetan Temple, to join in the recitation of ‘mani’ mantras—Om mani padmé hung. This is an event that regularly takes place during the first days of Saga Dawa, the fourth month of the Tibetan calendar, that commemorates the birth, enlightenment and passing away of Buddha Shakyamuni.
May 9, 2024
Although it is more than 2500 years since the Buddha lived and taught in India, the essence of his teaching remains as relevant today as it was then. While modern science has developed a sophisticated understanding of the physical world, Buddhist science has devoted itself to developing a detailed, first-person understanding of many aspects of the mind and emotions, areas still relatively new to modern science.
April 22, 2024
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - This morning His Holiness the Dalai Lama walked from his gate to take his seat in the veranda beneath the Tsuglagkhang, the Main Tibetan Temple. 353 performers, members of opera groups from several Tibetan settlements, who had taken part in the recent Sho-tön Opera Festival, were gathered in the temple courtyard to meet him. A lead singer of each group came to the microphone.
April 20, 2024
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - Today, the clouds had lifted, and sunlight played on the courtyard as His Holiness the Dalai Lama walked to the temple. People sat on either side of the walkway to greet him, with white silk scarves in their folded hands. Six Mongolian laypeople sat before His Holiness’s throne and recited the ‘Heart Sutra’ in Mongolian while many of their compatriots sitting in the body of the temple joined in.
April 19, 2024
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - The sky was overcast but His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s smile was radiant as he walked into the Tsuglagkhang courtyard this morning. Two Mongolians, a man and a woman, representatives of the 300 of their countrymen and women who had come to hear His Holiness teach, stepped forward to offer him cheese and then curd. He took a pinch of each and then encouraged the couple to taste them too.
April 9, 2024
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - His Holiness the Dalai Lama opened the second day’s meeting with guests from Harvard by reciting a verse, which is an aspiration for a long life and for the flourishing of the Dharma. Arthur Brooks wished His Holiness good morning and told him that today the theme for discussion would be spirituality and faith. “Yesterday you told us how important it is to remember our mother’s love.”
April 8, 2024
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - Prof Arthur Brooks greeted His Holiness the Dalai Lama as he entered the meeting room this morning. Brooks told him that their 11-year-old friendship and collaboration had changed his life. He assured His Holiness that he and his friends from Harvard wanted to help spread his message. “We want to lift people up and bring them together with science, ideas and spirituality.”