To His Holiness the Dalai Lama, religious diversity is not a problem but the beauty and richness of human wisdom. It is like different flowers in a garden and different tastes of food. Yet, in human history, different religions of the world have often been a factor in...
What is the middle way of Buddhism?
“First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yathābhūtam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor...
༄༅། །དོན་དམ་བདེན་པའི་མཚན་ཉིད་ལས་འཕྲོས་པའི་གཏམ།
ཞེས་ལྷད་མེད་བློ་ཡིས་མདུན་བདར་ནས་དོན་དམ་བདེན་པའི་མཚན་ཉིད་ལས་འཕྲོས་པའི་གཏམ་ཉུང་ངུ་ཞིག་བྱ་བ་ལ། ཐུབ་པ་ཆེན་པོས་མི་མཇེད་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས་སུ་བྱོན་ནས་རྣམ་མང་གདུལ་བྱའི་མོས་པ་དང་འཚམ་པར་ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་རིན་པོ་གསུམ་བསྐོར་བར་མཛད་ཅིང་།
The Eightfold path what one must do?
He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.Lord Budhha The Eightfold Path is the third circle in the core of the teachings of Buddha. These teachings are timeless, philosophical yet practical ways of living life. By...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama 86 birthday
Exactly 86 years before, His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet was born on 6th July to a humble family in the eastern part of Tibet ( Taktser, Amdo). One of the survived seven siblings, he was referred to as Lhamo Thondup. Unlike other kids,...
Why should we be kind to Animals?
Thupten Palmo with Tsering I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'George Thorndike Angell "Sapiens" I have read a book called...