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| His Holiness the Dalai Lama, www.myfirstshow.com. |
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will celebrate his 85th birthday on July 6, 2020. I have included a list of just a few ways to celebrate online, including by watching His Holiness livestream from Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Watch His Holiness the Dalai teach on Mind Training
His Holiness's website says, "His Holiness will give a general teaching on Mind Training (lojong) on the occasion of his 85th birthday celebrations being held in Taiwan on the morning of July 5 from 10.30 am to 11 am (Indian Standard Time).
"Those interested may watch the live webcast of the teachings in English with translation in Tibetan, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Japanese, Mongolian, Korean, German, Portuguese and Italian on the official websites and Facebook pages of the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. People are requested to please follow their local social distancing rules while viewing the live webcast."
Schedule
July 5, 2020
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM IST
(July 4, 2020 from 10:00 PM - 10:30 PM PT)
Join the Livestream
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM IST
(July 4, 2020 from 10:00 PM - 10:30 PM PT)
Join the Livestream
Watch the livestream "Mind Training" on the Dalai Lama Archive YouTube channel.
Recite OM MANI PADME HUM mantras
Honor His Holiness the Dalai Lama by reciting 1,000+ OM MANI PADME HUM mantras on His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday for His Holiness's continued good health and long life.
Offices of Tibet Celebrations
The Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government in exile in India, announced the Offices of Tibet in London and Washington, DC will host Facebook Live events on July 6 to celebrate His Holiness's birthday, principal commitments, and benevolent leadership.
The Event
Three guest speakers will speak for fifteen minutes each. Viewers can then ask questions.
The Event
The Event
Recite OM MANI PADME HUM mantras
Honor His Holiness the Dalai Lama by reciting 1,000+ OM MANI PADME HUM mantras on His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday for His Holiness's continued good health and long life.
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| OM MANI PADME HUM. |
Offices of Tibet Celebrations
The Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government in exile in India, announced the Offices of Tibet in London and Washington, DC will host Facebook Live events on July 6 to celebrate His Holiness's birthday, principal commitments, and benevolent leadership.
The Offices of Tibet in London and Washington, DC are two of the official agencies of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration. There are Offices of Tibet all over the world.
Virtual Panel Discussion to Celebrate His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama's Principal Commitments and Benevolent Leadership
The Office of Tibet in London's Facebook Live event will be moderated by Mr. Sonam Tsering Frasi, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Northern Europe, Baltic States, and Poland.
Virtual Panel Discussion to Celebrate His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama's Principal Commitments and Benevolent Leadership
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| Office of Tibet London, www.tibet.net. |
The Office of Tibet in London's Facebook Live event will be moderated by Mr. Sonam Tsering Frasi, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Northern Europe, Baltic States, and Poland.
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| Mr. Sonam Tsering Frasi, www.japan-forward.com. |
He said, "We believe that the best way to celebrate the gratitude year to His Holiness would be listening to his advice and creating a greater awareness of his four principal commitments in life for the well being of all sentient beings. As the world is suffering from uncertainty caused by global pandemic and conflicts everywhere, it is very important to understand that fundamentally human beings are the same."
The Event
Three guest speakers will speak for fifteen minutes each. Viewers can then ask questions.
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| His Eminence Kyabje Ling Rinpoche with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, www.outlookindia.com. |
His Eminence the 7th Kyabje Ling Rinpoche, the thirty-four year old reincarnation of the senior tutor of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, will speak on His Holiness the Dalai Lama's four principal commitments.
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| Kasur Kesang Yangkyi Takla, www.multimediaeuropal.europa.eu. |
Kasur Kesang Yangkyi Takla, a long-serving Tibetan civil servant, will speak about His Holiness the Dalai Lama's benevolent leadership in the world.
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| Richard Moore with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, www.medium.com. |
Richard Moore, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Irish hero, will speak about forgiveness and compassion and his encounter with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Please read the story about Richard and His Holiness, "Interview with Richard Moore: The Dalai Lama's Irish Hero."
Schedule
Monday, July 6, 2020
Please read the story about Richard and His Holiness, "Interview with Richard Moore: The Dalai Lama's Irish Hero."
Schedule
Monday, July 6, 2020
5:30 AM - 7:00 AM PT
Watch on Facebook Live
The event will livestream on the Office of Tibet London Facebook page.
Virtual Celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 85th Birthday
The Office of Tibet in Washington, DC's Facebook Live event will feature special guest speakers, prayers, and music. All are welcome to join.
The Event
Participants include US House of Representatives Honorable Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Central Tibetan Administration President Dr. Lobsang Sangay, United States Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, US Congressman Jim McGovern, US Congressman Ted Yoho, US Congressman Ben McAdam, NED President Carl Gershman, Canadian Member of Parliament Garnett Genuis, Canadian Member of Parliament Arif Virani, Khenpo Samdup from Drikung Dharma Surya Center in Virginia, and Central Tibetan Administration Representative Ngodup Tsering at the Office of Tibet in Washington, DC.
Schedule
Monday, July 6, 2020
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM PT
Watch on Facebook Live
The event will livestream on the Office of Tibet - Washington, DC Facebook page.
Essay Competition for Tibetan Youth
The Office of Tibet in Washington, DC is organizing an Essay Competition for Tibetan Youth in high school and older up to age 25 living in North America.
This competition is being organized as a part of the Gratitude Celebration to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
The topic of the essay is “Legacy and contribution of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the Tibetan people and the world.” The Essay Competition is is part of an effort to encourage young Tibetans to participate in a project expressing gratitude for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s legacy and contributions.
The submission deadline is 11:59 PM ET on July 31, 2020. Read the details on www.tibet.net.
Ngarik Gatsal Ling
Ngarik Gatsal Ling Centre will celebrate His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday with an online program held on Zoom led by His Eminence Guru Tulku Rinpoche, abbot of Thubchog Gatsal Ling Monastery in Bomdila, Arunachal Pradesh, and translated from Tibetan to English by Venerable Tenzin Legtsok.
Yangsi Rinpoche, president of Maitripa College, will be leading celebrations for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday on Zoom.
Watch on Facebook Live
The event will livestream on the Office of Tibet London Facebook page.
Virtual Celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 85th Birthday
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| Office of Tibet Washington, DC, www.tibet.net. |
The Office of Tibet in Washington, DC's Facebook Live event will feature special guest speakers, prayers, and music. All are welcome to join.
The Event
Participants include US House of Representatives Honorable Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Central Tibetan Administration President Dr. Lobsang Sangay, United States Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, US Congressman Jim McGovern, US Congressman Ted Yoho, US Congressman Ben McAdam, NED President Carl Gershman, Canadian Member of Parliament Garnett Genuis, Canadian Member of Parliament Arif Virani, Khenpo Samdup from Drikung Dharma Surya Center in Virginia, and Central Tibetan Administration Representative Ngodup Tsering at the Office of Tibet in Washington, DC.
Monday, July 6, 2020
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM PT
Watch on Facebook Live
The event will livestream on the Office of Tibet - Washington, DC Facebook page.
Essay Competition for Tibetan Youth
The Office of Tibet in Washington, DC is organizing an Essay Competition for Tibetan Youth in high school and older up to age 25 living in North America.
This competition is being organized as a part of the Gratitude Celebration to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
The topic of the essay is “Legacy and contribution of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the Tibetan people and the world.” The Essay Competition is is part of an effort to encourage young Tibetans to participate in a project expressing gratitude for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s legacy and contributions.
The submission deadline is 11:59 PM ET on July 31, 2020. Read the details on www.tibet.net.
Ngarik Gatsal Ling
Ngarik Gatsal Ling Centre will celebrate His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday with an online program held on Zoom led by His Eminence Guru Tulku Rinpoche, abbot of Thubchog Gatsal Ling Monastery in Bomdila, Arunachal Pradesh, and translated from Tibetan to English by Venerable Tenzin Legtsok.
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| Ngarik Gatsal Ling Centre. |
The Event
Long life prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, blessings by His Eminence Guru Tulku Rinpoche, teachings on how to achieve inner peace through compassionate mind, and question and answer session for participants who join on Zoom.
Ngarik Gatsal Ling Centre's spiritual guides are His Eminence Guru Tulku Rinpoche and Venerable Geshe Dorji Damdul. Their website says, "Ngarik Gatsal Ling, a Buddhist Dharma Centre, established in 2014 based in Guwahati with the objective for providing an enriched learning environment for the benefit of the society in North Eastern States of India. It is a collective group of members and students of diverse socio-cultural background from across the North Eastern States of India. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama made his maiden public visit to Assam in the year 2014, almost 50 years after his escape from Tibet (via Assam) following the Chinese Invasion in the year 1959. During His Holliness's visit, a group of people under the leadership of H.E. Guru Tulku Rinpoche, then then Abbot of Tawang Monastery, having the wish to create a Dharma Centre to impart the precious teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha made a request to him for the same and His Holiness confirmed his blessings and laid out the objectives and named the Centre as Ngarik Gatsai Ling, which in Tibetan means, Joyous Garden of the Five Sciences (Buddhism, Logic, Medicine, Art & Crafts and Sanskrit/Grammar)."
Schedule
July 6, 2020
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM IST
(July 6, 2020 from 5:00 AM - 7:00 AM PT)
Join the Event
Register for the Zoom event on a Google Form.
There is no mention of a public livestream but their Facebook page is Ngarik Gatsal Ling - Joyous Garden for the Five Sciences.
Maitripa College
Yangsi Rinpoche, president of Maitripa College, will be leading celebrations for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday on Zoom.
The Event
The Maitripa College website says, "Celebrate His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 85th birthday with Yangsi Rinpoche and Maitripa College!
"Join us on Zoom at 12 noon PDT. Registration required to attend!"
"Join us on Zoom at 12 noon PDT. Registration required to attend!"
The Schedule
July 6, 2020
July 6, 2020
12:00 PM PT
Join the Zoom event
Register in advance for the event which will be held on Zoom.
Tibet House New Delhi
Register in advance for the event which will be held on Zoom.
Tibet House New Delhi
Tibet House New Delhi, India, and Geshe Dorji Damdul will be holding an event on Facebook Live for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday.
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| Tibet House New Delhi. |
The Event
The June 26, 2020 e-newsletter from Tibet House New Delhi says,
"Celebrating Year of Gratitude to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
"Live Aspirational Bodhisattva Pledge for the Long Life of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama on his 85th Birthday led by Ven. Geshe Dorji Damdul, Director, Tibet House, New Delhi.
"All are welcome to join."
Schedule
July 6, 2020
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM IST
(July 5, 2020 from 10:00 PM - 12:00 AM PT)
Join the Livestream
Geshe Thupten Jinpa
Geshe Thupten Jinpa wrote on Facebook, "༈ རང་་ཅག་གི་རྣམ་འདྲེན་ཆེན་པོ་༧སྤྱི་ནོར་༧གོང་ས་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་རྒྱལ་དབང་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་བཞི་པ་ཆེན་པོ་གུང་གྲངས་ ༨༥ ཕེབས་པའི་སྐུའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་སྲུང་བརྩི་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཞུ་སྙན་འདི་བོད་སྐད་ཐོག་ཡོད་པས་ཚང་མས་གཟིགས་རོགས་ཞུ་རྒྱུ། གླང་རི་བ་ཐུབ་བསྟ་ན་སྦྱིན་པས། ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་ཞུའོ།།To my fellow Tibetans and fellow Tibetan Buddhists, I would like to share with you that I have composed a special prayer to mark His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 85th birthday, on July 6, 2020. This 20-stanza prayer, both in Tibetan and English, is to honor the enlightened life and deeds of His Holiness and to also request him to live long and well for the benefit of the dharma, sentient beings, and especially for the people of Tibet.
Geshe Thupten Jinpa wrote on Facebook, "༈ རང་་ཅག་གི་རྣམ་འདྲེན་ཆེན་པོ་༧སྤྱི་ནོར་༧གོང་ས་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་རྒྱལ་དབང་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་བཞི་པ་ཆེན་པོ་གུང་གྲངས་ ༨༥ ཕེབས་པའི་སྐུའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་སྲུང་བརྩི་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཞུ་སྙན་འདི་བོད་སྐད་ཐོག་ཡོད་པས་ཚང་མས་གཟིགས་རོགས་ཞུ་རྒྱུ། གླང་རི་བ་ཐུབ་བསྟ་ན་སྦྱིན་པས། ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་ཞུའོ།།To my fellow Tibetans and fellow Tibetan Buddhists, I would like to share with you that I have composed a special prayer to mark His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 85th birthday, on July 6, 2020. This 20-stanza prayer, both in Tibetan and English, is to honor the enlightened life and deeds of His Holiness and to also request him to live long and well for the benefit of the dharma, sentient beings, and especially for the people of Tibet.
"I will release the text of the prayer, in both languages, on the morning of the day Indian time (evening of July 5th in North America) so that everyone could download the texts.
"On the actual day, July 6th, there will be a live chanting session of the two prayers at 11:30am EST (8:30am West coast, and 9pm Indian standard time). You can join this group chanting session by joining Facebook Live on ཞི་བདེ་ཀུན་ཁྱྱབ་གླླིང་Center for Universal Peace Facebook page. Please join me and others to chant this special prayer to honor our most beloved and revered His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Thank you."
Schedule
July 6, 2020
8:30 AM PT
Join the Livestream
Watch the livestream on the Center for Universal Peace Facebook page.
Check Geshe Thupten Jinpa's Facebook page for updates.
Gaden Shartse Thubten Dhargye Ling
Gaden Shartse Thubten Dhargye Ling in California will be celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday.
Gaden Shartse Thubten Dhargye Ling
Gaden Shartse Thubten Dhargye Ling in California will be celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday.
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| Gaden Shartse Thubten Dhargye Ling, e-newsletter. |
The Event
The flyer says, "Please join us as we celebrate His Holiness's 85th birthday! We will be doing a smoke purification ceremony and will be hoisting up Tibetan prayer flags outside our temple."
The Schedule
The Schedule
July 6, 2020
10:00 AM PT
The July 2, 2020 Gaden Shartse Thubten Dhargye Ling e-newsletter says, "We hope you can join us on our Facebook page. If you are unable to, please be aware that we plan to put some videos of these celebrations on our YouTube page within the week."
Album of Mantras and Teachings "The Dalai Lama: Inner World" Release Celebration
An album of mantras and teachings set to music with accompanying booklet, created by Hitco Entertainment and Khandro Music, will be released on July 6 for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday.
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| The Dalai Lama: Inner World, Dalai Lama Inner World Facebook. |
The Event
In addition to the album’s release, Inner World will be sharing an 85th Birthday Celebration for The Dalai Lama.
The Dalai Lama Inner World Facebook page says, "The program will include longtime student and friend of The Dalai Lama, Richard Gere as well as other special guests, birthday messages, and musical performances, including one by Anoushka Shankar, who will debut a performance of Ama La, the track from the album that she features on."
Schedule
Schedule
The event will be livestreamed twice.
July 6, 2020
9:00 AM IST
1:00 PM ET
Watch the Livestream
Watch the event livestream on the Dalai Lama Inner World YouTube channel.
Watch the event livestream on the Dalai Lama Inner World Facebook page.
Listen to the Music
Listen to already released songs from the album on the Dalai Lama Inner World YouTube channel.
Listen to already released songs from the album on the Dalai Lama Inner World Facebook page.
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