Happy Birthday Dalai Lama!

Casual conversation between friends. Anything goes (almost).
Post Reply
sattva
Posts: 120
Joined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:52 pm

Happy Birthday Dalai Lama!

Post by sattva »

Happy 79th Birthday to the Dalai Lama!
JKhedrup
Posts: 2328
Joined: Wed May 30, 2012 8:28 am

Re: Happy Birthday Dalai Lama!

Post by JKhedrup »

Happy Birthday!
Please stay with us for a very long time :namaste:
User avatar
kirtu
Former staff member
Posts: 6997
Joined: Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:29 pm
Location: Baltimore, MD

Re: Happy Birthday Dalai Lama!

Post by kirtu »

Happy 79th birthday Your Holiness!

phpBB [video]
“Where do atomic bombs come from?”
Zen Master Seung Sahn said, “That’s simple. Atomic bombs come from the mind that likes this and doesn’t like that.”

"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
plwk
Posts: 2932
Joined: Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:41 am

Re: Happy Birthday Dalai Lama!

Post by plwk »

phpBB [video]
phpBB [video]
Last edited by plwk on Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:35 am, edited 1 time in total.
T. Chokyi
Posts: 510
Joined: Sat May 26, 2012 11:19 am

Re: Happy Birthday Dalai Lama!

Post by T. Chokyi »

**** :buddha1: ****

Happy Birthday!
sattva
Posts: 120
Joined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:52 pm

Re: Happy Birthday Dalai Lama!

Post by sattva »

Thanks for posting the videos! :twothumbsup:

Even though I am not a Tibetan Buddhist, I am a Buddhist, a western Buddhist. I live in a place where not many people know much about Buddhists. To have the Dalai Lama as an example of what a Buddhist is and can be is not a bad thing at all. For years, he has been an example of compassion and forgiveness. He has a strong propensity for science and logic and is known for tolerance towards other religions. Tolerance is something greatly needed in this world. So, to me he is a shining example, ---not of a Theravada Buddhist or a Zen Buddhist, as a Tibetan Buddhist of course, and as a Buddhist in general yes, and as a human being most definitely! :applause: :bow: May he continue to shine brightly for many years!
User avatar
DNS
Site Admin
Posts: 5270
Joined: Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:23 pm
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, Estados Unidos de América
Contact:

Re: Happy Birthday Dalai Lama!

Post by DNS »

:good: :thumbsup:

+1 Yes, he is great and a good case of leading by example.
JKhedrup
Posts: 2328
Joined: Wed May 30, 2012 8:28 am

Re: Happy Birthday Dalai Lama!

Post by JKhedrup »

Words of Truth


A Prayer Composed by:
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso The Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet

Honoring and Invoking the Great Compassion
of the Three Jewels; the Buddha, the Teachings,
and the Spiritual Community

O Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and disciples
of the past, present, and future:
Having remarkable qualities
Immeasurably vast as the ocean,
Who regard all helpless sentient beings
as your only child;
Please consider the truth of my anguished pleas.

Buddha's full teachings dispel the pain of worldly
existence and self-oriented peace;
May they flourish, spreading prosperity and happiness through-
out this spacious world.
O holders of the Dharma: scholars
and realized practitioners;
May your ten fold virtuous practice prevail.

Humble sentient beings, tormented
by sufferings without cease,
Completely suppressed by seemingly endless
and terribly intense, negative deeds,
May all their fears from unbearable war, famine,
and disease be pacified,
To freely breathe an ocean of happiness and well-being.
And particularly the pious people
of the Land of Snows who, through various means,
Are mercilessly destroyed by barbaric hordes
on the side of darkness,
Kindly let the power of your compassion arise,
To quickly stem the flow of blood and tears.

Those unrelentingly cruel ones, objects of compassion,
Maddened by delusion's evils,
wantonly destroy themselves and others;
May they achieve the eye of wisdom,
knowing what must be done and undone,
And abide in the glory of friendship and love.

May this heartfelt wish of total freedom for all Tibet,
Which has been awaited for a long time,
be spontaneously fulfilled;
Please grant soon the good fortune to enjoy
The happy celebration of spiritual with temporal rule.

O protector Chenrezig, compassionately care for
Those who have undergone myriad hardships,
Completely sacrificing their most cherished lives,
bodies, and wealth,
For the sake of the teachings, practitioners,
people, and nation.

Thus, the protector Chenrezig made vast prayers
Before the Buddhas and Bodhisativas
To fully embrace the Land of Snows;
May the good results of these prayers now quickly appear.
By the profound interdependence of emptiness
and relative forms,
Together with the force of great compassion
in the Three Jewels and their Words of Truth,
And through the power
of the infallible law of actions and their fruits,
May this truthful prayer be unhindered
and quickly fulfilled.

This prayer, Words of Truth, was composed by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, on 29 September 1960 at his temporary headquarters in the Swarg Ashram at Dharamsala, Kangra District, Himachal State, India. This prayer for restoring peace, the Buddhist teachings, and the culture and self-determina-tion of the Tibetan people in their homeland was written after repeated requests by Tibetan government officials along with the unanimous consensus of the monastic and lay communities.
Post Reply

Return to “Lounge”