Live Webcasts: His Holiness the Dalai Lama to give teaching for Taiwanese

eptember 27, 2013 10:21 am

Photo courtesy/Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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There will be live webcasts of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s four-day teaching on Nagarjuna’s “Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning (Rigpa Drugchupa)” & Tsongkhapa’s “Concise Treatises on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lamrim Dudon)” at the request of a group from Taiwan at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, India, on September 30 to October 3, 2013. His Holiness will speak in Tibetan with English, Chinese, Vietnamese and Russian language translations a available.

All times Indian Standard Time (IST = GMT+5.30)
September 30th: 8:00am – 12:00noon IST
October 1st: 8:00am – 12:00noon IST
October 2nd: 8:00am – 12:00noon IST
October 3rd: 8:00am – 12:00noon IST
English language live webcasts available here.
Tibetan and Chinese language live webcasts available here.
Vietnamese language live webcasts available here.
Russian language live webcasts available here.
For times in your region 8:00am IST on September 30th in Dharamsala, India is the same as 3:30am BST on September 30th in London, England; and 7:30pm PDT on September 29th in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Tibetans Join Indians in charity show for Kinnaur disaster

September 28, 2013 10:31 am

Chief guest Shri Indresh Kumar (left) and Acharya Yeshi Phutsok lighting the ceremonial lamp during the charity show.

DHARAMSHALA: A joint Indo-Tibetan cultural event was held yesterday in Dharamsala to raise financial relief for the victims of natural disaster in Kinnaur district in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
Mr Indresh Kumar, a senior functionary from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), was the chief guest. Other dignitaries include Ven Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok, member of Tibetan Parliament and Mr Ajay Mankotia, President of Indo-Tibetan friendship association, Dharamsala.
The Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA) and Indian college students presented Tibetan folk songs and dances during the event.
Staff from the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), Central Tibetan Administration, distributed books on Tibet to the audience during the event.

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Tibetan Scholars Meet His Holiness to Review Buddhist Science Textbook

September 26, 2013 6:09 pm

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DHARAMSHALA: His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s interest in science is well-known. Conversations he began with modern scientists almost thirty years ago have spawned such thriving collaborations as the Mind & Life Institute a non-profit organization dedicated to building a scientific understanding of the mind to reduce suffering and promote well-being.
In recent years, scientific interest has grown in what ancient Indian thought, and Buddhist literature in particular, has to say about such phenomena as the mind and emotions for example. At the same time, His Holiness has begun to speak of a new way of thinking of the great body of literature translated largely from Indian sources into Tibetan, the more than 300 volumes of the Kangyur (translations of the Buddha’s words) and Tengyur (translations of commentaries by subsequent Buddhist masters). He has recommended classifying some content as Buddhist science, some as Buddhist philosophy and the remainder as concerned with spiritual practice. His view is that while interest in material dealing with spiritual practice might be limited to Buddhists, material related to Buddhist science and philosophy could have a much wider academic and intellectual appeal.

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In pictures: His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teaching for Southeast Asians

September 6, 2013 10:00 am

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Images from the final day of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s three day teaching on Shantideva’s “A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life” at the request of a group of Southeast Asians at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, India on September 5, 2013.

Some of the over 6,000 people from 61 countries attending the final day of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s three day teaching requested by a group from Southeast Asia at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, HP, India on September 5, 2013. Photo/Lobsang Tsering/OHHDL

Monks reciting the Heart Sutra at the start of the final day of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s three day teaching requested by a group from Southeast Asia at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, HP, India on September 5, 2013. Photo/Lobsang Tsering/OHHDL

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26th Meeting of Task Force on Sino-Tibetan Negotiations Begins

September 5, 2013 3:18 pm

A three-day meeting of the Task Force on Sino-Tibetan Negotiations being held at the Kashag Secretariat in Dharamsala, India, from 5-7 September 2013/DIIR Photo

DHARAMSHALA: Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay is presiding over a three-day meeting of Task Force on Sino-Tibetan Negotiations from 5 – 7 September in Dharamsala, with deliberation on and review of overall prevailing situation in Tibet and prospects of dialogue process among the core agenda.
The Task Force on Negotiations has been expanded with inclusion of six new members. The new members are former Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, Kasur Lobsang Nyandak, Mr Tashi Phuntsok, Secretary of Department of Information & International Relations, Mr Sonam Tsering Frasi, former member of Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, Mr Phagpa Tsering, Deputy Director of Tibet Policy Insitute and Mr Kunga Tashi, Chinese Liaison Officer, Office of Tibet, New York.
Other members present at the ongoing meeting include former Special Envoy Kasur Lodi Gyari and Envoy Kelsang Gyaltsen.
This is the 26th Task Force meeting since its inception and 4th meeting since Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay took leadership of the Central Tibetan Administration. Earlier three meetings were held in October 2011, June 2012 and January 2013.
The Task Force was constituted to help recommend policy matters and strategies to find a peaceful and mutually acceptable negotatiated solution to the issue of Tibet.The first Task Force meeting was held in 1999.
During the course of nine rounds of Sino-Tibetan talks since 2002, the Tibetan side has presented to the Chinese leadership a Memorandum and Note seeking genuine autonomy for Tibet as enshrined in the Chinese constitution and Law on Regional National Autonomy. The ninth round of talks was held in 2010.
Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay, who took over the political leadership from His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2011, has unequivocally and consistently stated that Dharamsala is ready to engage in meaningful dialogue with Beijing anywhere and at anytime, adding that he considers the substance primary and the process secondary.

A group photo of members of the Task Force on Sino-Tibetan Negotiations on the opening day of their three-day meeting at the Kashag Secretariat in Dharamsala, India, on 5 September 2013/DIIR Photo

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