Join Venerable Geshe Dorji Damdul and Tibet House New Delhi for Global Prayer Week During Covid-19

Venerable Geshe Dorji Damdul, Tibet House New Delhi Facebook Live.

Tibet House New Delhi, India, directed by Venerable Geshe Dorji Damdul, is offering a one-hour Facebook Live prayer session each day this week as part of the International Buddhist Confederation's Global Prayer Week. (International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) organized last week's Virtual Vesak.)

Tibet House New Delhi Facebook.

A Call for Global Prayers and Meditation in the Time of the Pandemic

Monday, May 11 to Friday, May 15

10:30-11:30 AM IST

(Sunday, May 10 to Thursday, May 14

10-11:00 PM PT)

Watch the recording of the first day (May 11/May 10) on Facebook.

The prayers and guided meditations are open to everyone. Please download the free prayer book, The Blaze of Non-Dual Bodhicittas, for use during the session.

Here is the official invitation.

Global Prayer Week official letter, Tibet House New Delhi Facebook page.

"A CALL FOR GLOBAL PRAYERS AND MEDITATION IN THE TIME OF THE PANDEMIC

"Conducted by Tibet House, The Cultural Centre of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, New Delhi, in solidarity with International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)’s initiative of Global Prayer Week.

"Dear Brothers and Sisters,

"The world today is in great turmoil, with the impact of Covid-19 taking its toll on victims and their families, as well as frontline health providers. Economic hardship due to the pandemic has also claimed many lives and is devastating poorer and vulnerable people everywhere.

"His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in his recent messages for "The Call to Unite," as well as Vesak, has underlined the importance of recognising our deep interdependence, that demands a coordinated global response in order to tackle the predicament before humankind today.

"In order to heed the words of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a second Buddha, whose presence in this country and on the planet is a great blessing for the whole world, Tibet House Delhi felicitates Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Vesak message and joins in solidarity with the Global Prayer Week efforts of the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) in order to alleviate the severity and effects of this pandemic.

"Since Covid-19 is the result of negative collective karma, no doubt accumulated due to ignorance and a self-cherishing attitude, and a motivation to harm others, be it other humans beings or animals, the antidote of the collective recitation of the holy sutras of the Buddha and the words of the great Indian and Tibetan masters, as well as guided meditations, cannot be underestimated and is called for on a vast scale.

"We therefore invite you to join us, live on Tibet House Facebook or via following the recordings at a later time, for an hour a day from 11-15 May 2020. From 10.30-11.30am (Indian Standard Time), there will be a recitation of holy scriptures, followed by a guided meditation on one of the topics of shamatha, the four seals, bodhicitta, and the wisdom of emptiness. On the last day, we will have long life prayers for the living Buddha of our times, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The proceedings will make use of this text The Blaze of Non-Dual Bodhicittas.

"This week’s collective practice will lead into the two day online teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from 8:00am – 9:30am (Indian Standard Time) on 16-17th May 2020, on Arya Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland. In order to attend the teachings online, please visit https://www.dalailama.com/schedule. These teachings are aimed at curbing the negative karmas responsible for Covid-19, and to heal those stricken by illness, frontline health providers, as well as their families, and all those affected by the pandemic.

"We look forward to your joining us in solidarity with the Global Prayer Week efforts of IBC.

"In prayers,

Geshe Dorji Damdul
Director"

The first day of Global Prayer Week, Tibet House New Delhi Faebook Live.