HH Dalai Lama will be teaching in Strasbourg, France on the 17th and 18th of September, 2016. These teachings will be webcast. There will be simultaneous translation in English, French, German, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Russian.
HHDL Teachings in Strasbourg
The teaching on Saturday, 17 September will be on Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana, Commentary on Bodhicitta.
On 18 September HHDL will give a Chenrezig empowerment and give a talk on "Ethics Beyond Religion".
Kirt
HHDL teaching in Strasbourg 17-18 September, 2016
HHDL teaching in Strasbourg 17-18 September, 2016
Kirt's Tibetan Translation Notes
"Even if you practice only for an hour a day with faith and inspiration, good qualities will steadily increase. Regular practice makes it easy to transform your mind. From seeing only relative truth, you will eventually reach a profound certainty in the meaning of absolute truth."
Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
"Only you can make your mind beautiful."
HH Chetsang Rinpoche
"Most all-knowing Mañjuśrī, ...
Please illuminate the radiant wisdom spirit
Of my precious Buddha nature."
HH Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
"Even if you practice only for an hour a day with faith and inspiration, good qualities will steadily increase. Regular practice makes it easy to transform your mind. From seeing only relative truth, you will eventually reach a profound certainty in the meaning of absolute truth."
Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
"Only you can make your mind beautiful."
HH Chetsang Rinpoche
"Most all-knowing Mañjuśrī, ...
Please illuminate the radiant wisdom spirit
Of my precious Buddha nature."
HH Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
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Re: HHDL teaching in Strasbourg 17-18 September, 2016
I will go there and wondered:
What can one do in advance to prepare for Chenrezig empowerment?
Is anybody driving there from Bavaria (Germany)?
What can one do in advance to prepare for Chenrezig empowerment?
Is anybody driving there from Bavaria (Germany)?
Re: HHDL teaching in Strasbourg 17-18 September, 2016
HandsomeMonkeyking wrote:I will go there and wondered:
What can one do in advance to prepare for Chenrezig empowerment?
Chenrezig is the embodiment of the compassion of all the Buddhas.
Any kind of lovingkiness and compassion meditation. These are separate in Buddhism. Lovingkinness is the wish that all beings everywhere have relative and ultimate happiness. Compassion is the wish that all beings everywhere be free from suffering.
If you have a Buddhist background in another tradition do the lovingkindness and impermanace meditations found in that tradition and additionally meditate analytically on the necessity of attaining enlightenement in order to liberate all beings from samsara.
If you have a Tibetan Buddhist background in some form, then meditate on the Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind (the rarity of a preciousness human life, the faults of samsara, impermanace, the inevitability of death and rebirth, and karma) and the Four Immeasurables (May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness, may all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering, may no being be separated from sorrowless bliss, may all beings live in equanimity without attachment and hatred to those near and far), and relative Bodhicitta, the commitment to attain Buddhahood for the sake of all beings. So this is all general Mahayana Buddhism but the presentation is unique to Tibetan Buddhism.
You could also add any kind of repentance or purification practice . This is why we see Tibetans prostrating outside of these kinds of events. So something like the Three Heap Sutra if you are so inclined (at first this may appear to be a kind of exaggeration because we have definitely not done some of the things mentioned at least in this life).
Kirt
Kirt's Tibetan Translation Notes
"Even if you practice only for an hour a day with faith and inspiration, good qualities will steadily increase. Regular practice makes it easy to transform your mind. From seeing only relative truth, you will eventually reach a profound certainty in the meaning of absolute truth."
Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
"Only you can make your mind beautiful."
HH Chetsang Rinpoche
"Most all-knowing Mañjuśrī, ...
Please illuminate the radiant wisdom spirit
Of my precious Buddha nature."
HH Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
"Even if you practice only for an hour a day with faith and inspiration, good qualities will steadily increase. Regular practice makes it easy to transform your mind. From seeing only relative truth, you will eventually reach a profound certainty in the meaning of absolute truth."
Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
"Only you can make your mind beautiful."
HH Chetsang Rinpoche
"Most all-knowing Mañjuśrī, ...
Please illuminate the radiant wisdom spirit
Of my precious Buddha nature."
HH Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
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Re: HHDL teaching in Strasbourg 17-18 September, 2016
Livestream stopped?
Re: HHDL teaching in Strasbourg 17-18 September, 2016
I only got a notification about livestream on the 16th of September.HandsomeMonkeyking wrote:Livestream stopped?
Edit: On facebook someone wrote there were problems with broadcasting.
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Re: HHDL teaching in Strasbourg 17-18 September, 2016
It has been posted of Facebook that His Holiness is allowing the Chenzerig Wang to be livestreamed.
"Morality does not become pure unless darkness is dispelled by the light of wisdom"
- Aryasura, Paramitasamasa 6.5
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Re: HHDL teaching in Strasbourg 17-18 September, 2016
Note: His Holiness has decided to begin the Wang an hour earlier then scheduled so it will now begin at 8:30am Strasbourg time
"Morality does not become pure unless darkness is dispelled by the light of wisdom"
- Aryasura, Paramitasamasa 6.5