Dalai Lama Opens Inter-faith Symposium

Dalai Lama Opens Inter-faith Symposium, Arrives in Varanasi to deliver sermon
Phayul[Wednesday, January 07, 2009 19:22]

His Holiness arrives in Varanasi, Jan. 7, 2009 (photo:Tenzin Rigden/tibetonline.tv)
Varanasi, India, January 7:His Holiness the Dalai Lama today arrived in Sarnath,Varanasi, where he is scheduled to give a week-long teachings from tomorrow on “Kamalashila's The Middling Stages of Meditation (gomrim barpa) and Shantideva's A Guide To the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (chodjug)”. The audio of the teachings will be webcast live on phayul.com in Tibetan and Russian languages.

His Holiness inaugurated a six-day world religious symposium in Bhavnagar district in western Indian state of Gujarat yesterday. His Holiness considers promotion of religious harmony as one of his three commitments. The Tibetan leader said it is very important to practice religious tolerance for a peaceful world and that all religious faiths preach the same goals. Also present at the symposium was Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, the Prime Minister of the exile Tibetan government...

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That's great. Thanks for the info, Drolma.

I met Desmond Tutu quite by accident one day. I know he and 14th Dalai Lama are very good friends. I have to admit that being in Tutus presence is very powerful. He is really an amazing person.

Thank you for the information Drolma.

sherab zangpo wrote:I met Desmond Tutu quite by accident one day. I know he and 14th Dalai Lama are very good friends. I have to admit that being in Tutus presence is very powerful. He is really an amazing person.

Thank you for the information Drolma.

How wonderful!

I sometimes wonder who Tutu may have been in a past life. There's something practically dharmic about him. And the two of them seem to really know each other, at some deep level...



Or... maybe what they both know is something that transcends the idea of "other"...?




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christopher::: wrote:I sometimes wonder who Tutu may have been in a past life. There's something practically dharmic about him. And the two of them seem to really know each other, at some deep level...



Or... maybe what they both know is something that transcends the idea of "other"...?




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Awww how cute :beard:

peace

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