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| His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Bodhgaya, www.theweek.in. |
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will celebrate his 85th birthday on July 6, 2020.
On July 4 I published a collection of online events different groups are organizing to celebrate. Here are some additional events.
Those earlier shared events as well as the events below are open to everyone. Help His Holiness the Dalai Lama celebrate his birthday.
Tibet House New Delhi
Tibet House New Delhi has added two more programs to their celebrations. All are welcome to join.
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| Tibet House New Delhi, Tibet House New Delhi e-newsletter. |
The Newly Added Events
Virtual Certificate Distribution Ceremony for Graduates of the First Batch of the Nalanda Diploma Course 2018-2019
Schedule
Virtual Certificate Distribution Ceremony
July 6, 2020
12:30PM - 01:00PM IST
(July 6, 2020 from 12:00AM - 12:30AM PT)
A talk on "The Four Commitments of His Holiness the Dalai Lama"
July 6, 2020
6:00PM - 7:30PM IST
(July 6, 2020 from 5:30AM - 7:00AM PT)
Watch the Livestreams
Watch the livestream of the events on the Tibet House New Delhi Facebook page.
The talk on "The Four Commitments of His Holiness the Dalai Lama" will be an online interactive session that will also livestream onto Facebook. To join the interactive session register in advance by completing the Google Docs form.
Sangha members in Maratika, Nepal, will livestream practices on YouTube live for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday that anyone can watch and participate in.
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| His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Choe Khor Sum Ling Facebook. |
The Event
Choe Khor Sum Ling wrote on their Facebook page, "We welcome all of you to celebrate Holiness the Dalai Lama's 85th Birthday with us, by rejoicing in His Holiness's many precious qualities and doing practices according to the advice of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The practices will include the Sixteen Arhat Puja and will be led by Ven. Tenzin Namjong on Monday, July 6, at 9 am Indian Standard Time (GMT+5.5), broadcast live from Maratika, Nepal.
"The Dalai Lamas are believed by Tibetan Buddhists to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. The qualities of His Holiness are inconceivable. His Holiness has done a lot of work promoting universal ethics, preserving the teachings of the Buddha and promoting religious harmony all over the world.
"The Dalai Lamas are believed by Tibetan Buddhists to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. The qualities of His Holiness are inconceivable. His Holiness has done a lot of work promoting universal ethics, preserving the teachings of the Buddha and promoting religious harmony all over the world.
"Seeing his holy body is great purification—it makes preparation in our mind for us to be liberated from the oceans of samsaric suffering and plants the seed of enlightenment.
"But His Holiness’s holy mind is totally free from obscurations, from disturbing emotional thoughts such as desire and so forth. His Holiness’s holy mind does not have even the slightest stain or taint of these. Numberless eons ago, His Holiness became free from the stains of self-cherishing thought, with no thought of seeking happiness for the self arising even for one second.
"His Holiness is also purest in morality, or ethics, and is the Omniscient One, whose compassion embraces numberless sentient beings, never giving them up even for one second. His Holiness benefits sentient beings limitlessly, like the sky.
"This is also the quickest way to awaken us from the deep sleep of ignorance, for us to meet the Dharma, actualize the path, and achieve enlightenment. We will celebrate His Holiness's 85th Birthday by remembering the great qualities he possesses and vowing to become like him."
Schedule
July 6, 2020
9:00AM IST
(July 5, 2020 at 8:30PM PT)
Watch the Livestream
Watch the livestream from Maratika on the Choe Khor Sum Ling YouTube channel.
Download the free text the sangha members will be using, "How to Do the Great Festival of His Holiness's Birthday in the Best Possible Way."
Download the free text the sangha members will be using, "How to Do the Great Festival of His Holiness's Birthday in the Best Possible Way."
Sera Jey Translation Department
The Sera Jey Translation Department was established in 2012 in Sera Jey Monastic University. The purpose of the department is to train the monks in translation methodology and translating Buddhist texts from English to Tibetan and vice versa.
The department is organizing an event for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday.
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| Celebrating His Holiness's Birthday, Sera Jey Translation Department - English Facebook. |
The Sera Jey Translation Department - English wrote on their Facebook page, "Celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 85th Birthday by highlighting the Essence of HHDL's Contributions:
"1. His Contribution to the World
2. His Contribution to India
3. His Contribution to Tibet"
Speakers include:
Kurukulla Center wrote on their Facebook page, "Monday, July 6th is the 85th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Office of His Holiness has advised all his followers to recite 1,000 OM MANI PADME HUM mantras (10 malas) and dedicate the merit for the long life of HIs Holiness, the long life of all the holy gurus, and for peace all over the world.
Monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery and the Mystical Arts of Tibet tour will be celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday.
Watch the puja livestream on the Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc. (Atlanta, GA) Livestream page.
Tibet TV wrote on Facebook, "༄༅། །སྤྱི་ནོར་༧གོང་ས་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་མཛད་འཕྲིན་ལ་བཀའ་དྲིན་རྗེས་དྲན། ལེའུ་ ༢ ཿ སི་སློབ་གཉེར། A virtual interactive gratitude series dedicated to His Holiness the Dalai Lama Chapter 2 : SEE Learning
"Tibet Bureau Geneva and Tibet TV will be hosting the second chapter of the virtual interactive gratitude series titled “Thank You His Holiness the Dalai Lama” on SEE Learning program. The guest speaker for the live interactive discussion will be Professor Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Professor of Pedagogy and Executive Director of Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics, Emory University, USA.
"1. His Contribution to the World
2. His Contribution to India
3. His Contribution to Tibet"
Speakers include:
Geshe Tenzin Namdak speaking on "Contribution to the World," Tulku Tenzin Gyurme speaking on "Contribution to Tibet," and Venerable Thupten Kalden speaking on "Contribution to India."
The Schedule
July 5, 2020
8:00PM IST
(July 5 at 7:30AM PT)
Watch the Event
The event will be held on Zoom. The Zoom meeting ID is published on the graphic above and on the Sera Jey Translation Department - English Facebook page.
The event may also be livestreaming on the Sera Jey Translation Department - English Facebook page.
Kurukulla Center
Kurukulla Center will be celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday led by Geshe Ngawang Tenley.
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| His Holiness Dalai Lama's 85th Birthday, Kurukulla Center Facebook. |
The Event
Kurukulla Center wrote on their Facebook page, "Monday, July 6th is the 85th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Office of His Holiness has advised all his followers to recite 1,000 OM MANI PADME HUM mantras (10 malas) and dedicate the merit for the long life of HIs Holiness, the long life of all the holy gurus, and for peace all over the world.
"Geshe Tenley will lead four sessions of MANI recitation on Monday, July 6th. All sessions will be broadcast on Facebook Live. Feel free to join anytime!
"༄།སྤྱི་ནོར་༧གོང་ས་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་དགུང་གྲངས་གྱ་ལྔར་ཕེབས་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་གྱི་དུས་ཚེས་ཁྱད་ཅན་ཉིན།
སྤྱི་མཐུན་བསོད་ནམས་གསོག་ཆེད་ཆོས་ཐུན་བཞི་ཐོག་མ་ཎི་ཡིག་དྲུག་བསགས་་ནས་སྲུང་རྩི་ཞུ་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་པས་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་རོགས།"
"༄།སྤྱི་ནོར་༧གོང་ས་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་དགུང་གྲངས་གྱ་ལྔར་ཕེབས་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་གྱི་དུས་ཚེས་ཁྱད་ཅན་ཉིན།
སྤྱི་མཐུན་བསོད་ནམས་གསོག་ཆེད་ཆོས་ཐུན་བཞི་ཐོག་མ་ཎི་ཡིག་དྲུག་བསགས་་ནས་སྲུང་རྩི་ཞུ་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་པས་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་རོགས།"
The Schedule
July 6, 2020
8:00AM - 9:00AM ET
11:00AM - 12:00 PM ET
3:00PM - 4:00PM ET
8:00PM - 9:00PM ET
Watch the Livestreams
Watch the livestreams on the Kurukulla Center Facebook page.
Infinite Potential Film Screening and Panel Discussion
The film "Infinite Potential: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm" is has been made available for free viewing in celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday. A group online viewing will be followed by a panel discussion.
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| Free Screening of Infinite Potential, Infinite Potential Facebook. |
The Event
The film's website says, "'INFINITE POTENTIAL' takes us on a mystical and scientific journey into the nature of life and reality with David Bohm, the man Einstein called his 'spiritual son' and the Dalai Lama his 'science guru.' A physicist and explorer of Consciousness, Bohm turned to Eastern wisdom to develop groundbreaking insights into the profound interconnectedness of the Universe and our place within it.
Everyone is welcome to join "The Dalai Lama & Science - A Birthday Celebration" to watch the film followed by a panel discussion and live question and answer session.
Moderator:
Sandra de Castro Buffington
Founder of StoryAction
UCLA’s Global Media Center for Social Impact
Panelists:
Paul Howard, Film Director and Producer
Robert Thurman, Founder of Tibet House
Thupten Jinpa Langri, Dalai Lama’s English Translator for 35 Years
Khen Rinpoche Nicholas Vreeland, First Western Abbot of a Tibetan Monastery
Moderator:
Sandra de Castro Buffington
Founder of StoryAction
UCLA’s Global Media Center for Social Impact
Panelists:
Paul Howard, Film Director and Producer
Robert Thurman, Founder of Tibet House
Thupten Jinpa Langri, Dalai Lama’s English Translator for 35 Years
Khen Rinpoche Nicholas Vreeland, First Western Abbot of a Tibetan Monastery
Schedule
July 5, 2020
5:30PM PT to watch the film
July 5, 2020
5:30PM PT to watch the film
7:00PM PT to watch just the panel discussion
Watch the Event
Register in advance to watch the group screening of the film and the panel discussion. Register even if you can't join it live. A recording of the event will be sent afterwards.
Watch the Film Now
The filmmakers have already made the film available for free on YouTube.
Watch "Infinite Potential: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm" on the Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm YouTube channel.
Mystical Arts of Tibet
Monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery and the Mystical Arts of Tibet tour will be celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday.
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| Drepung Loseling Monastery monks, Mystical Arts of Tibet Facebook. |
The Event
The Mystical Arts of Tibet Facebook page says, "Join us as we celebrate the 85th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama!
"The Drepung Loseling monks of the Mystical Arts of Tibet tour will present the Long Life Offering Puja."
The Schedule
July 6, 2020
7:00AM PT
Watch the Livestream
Watch the puja livestream on the Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc. (Atlanta, GA) Livestream page.
Tibet Bureau Geneva
Tibet Bureau Geneva will be celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday with a presentation on SEE Learning from guest speaker Professor Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Professor of Pedagogy and Executive Director of Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics, Emory University, US.
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| Chapter 2: SEE Learning, Tibet TV Facebook. |
The Event
"Tibet Bureau Geneva and Tibet TV will be hosting the second chapter of the virtual interactive gratitude series titled “Thank You His Holiness the Dalai Lama” on SEE Learning program. The guest speaker for the live interactive discussion will be Professor Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Professor of Pedagogy and Executive Director of Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics, Emory University, USA.
"The virtual interactive discussion is part of the 'Thank You His Holiness the Dalai Lama' program being initiated by Tibet Bureau Geneva. The Central Tibetan Administration has dedicated the year 2020 as the Year of Gratitude to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. As part of this observance, Tibet Bureau Geneva will be hosting a monthly virtual interactive series dedicated to His Holiness the Dalai Lama to understand and express sincere gratitude for the many benefactions of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
"The virtual program will be held on the first Sunday of every month and will host a guest speaker who will discuss the various contributions and benefactions of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, especially highlighting His four important life-time commitments and the roles and responsibilities of Tibetans in fulfilling these commitments."
The Schedule
Sunday, July 5, 2020
6:30AM - 7:30AM PT
Watch the Livestream
Watch the livestream on the Tibet TV Facebook page.
Live questions from the audience will be accepted subject to the availability of time.
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