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Monday, July 6, 2020

Celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 85th Birthday

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, www.tibet.net.

Happy 85th Birthday to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Birthday Message From His Holiness the Dalai Lama

His Holiness released a video message on the morning of his birthday today, addressed to the Tibetan community. He said, "However, if you want to celebrate my birthday, I'd like to ask you to recite the Mani mantra (Om Mani Padme Hung) at least one thousand times."

Watch "85th Birthday Message" on the Dalai Lama Archive YouTube channel.


Recite the Mani Mantra

OM MANI PADME HUM

Recite the Mani Mantra With Geshe Ngawang Tenley

I shared some online birthday celebration events on July 4 and July 5. After watching His Holiness the Dalai Lama's message above, I thought to re-share the Kurukulla Center event.


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།"

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.

Garland of Words Enhancing the Joy of Devotion

On July 4 I also shared a Facebook message from Geshe Thupten Jinpa announcing he had written a new poem. Everyone is welcome to come together to chant the poem in Tibetan and English at a scheduled time.

The Schedule

July 6, 2020

8:30 AM PT

Watch the Livestream

Watch the livestream on the Center for Universal Peace Facebook page.

Read the Poem

The poem, Garland of Words Enhancing the Joy of Devotion, has been published in Tibetan and English. Here is the poem in Tibetan followed by English.

༧སྤྱི་ནོར་༧གོང་ས་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་རྒྱལ་དབང་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་བཞི་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གུང་གྲངས་གྱ་ལྔར་ཕེབས་པའི་དུས་ཚིགས་ཀྱི་སྐབས་སུ་མགོན་པོ་གང་དེའི་ཟླ་མེད་པའི་མཛད་པ་དང་བཀའ་དྲིན་རྗེས་སུ་་དྲན་ཅིང་སྐུ་ཚེ་མི་གཤིགས་ཡུན་དུ་བརྟན་པའི་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས་པ་«དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ་བའི་ཚིག་ཕྲེང་»ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།།
༄༅། །ༀ་སྭསྟི།
༡ མཐའ་ཡས་འགྲོ་བའི་འདྲེན་མཆོག་ཤཱཀྱའི་རྒྱལ།།
སྡུག་བསྔལ་ནད་སེལ་སྨན་མཆོག་དམ་པའི་ཆོས།།
རིག་གྲོལ་འདུས་པའི་ཚོགས་མཆོག་དགེ་འདུན་སྟེ།།
བསླུ་མེད་དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་གྱིས་ཤིས་པ་སྩོལ།།
༢ རབ་བྱུང་བཅུ་བདུན་ལྕགས་ཕོ་བྱི་བའི་ལོར།།
གངས་ཅན་མགོན་པོ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་དཔལ།།
གུང་གྲངས་གྱ་ལྔར་ཕེབས་པའི་དུས་ཚིགས་འདིར།།
མགོན་དེའི་ཟླ་མེད་བཀའ་དྲིན་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན།།
༣ ཁྱོད་ཉིད་སྡོམ་བརྩོན་གནས་བརྟན་ཀུན་གྱི་མཆོག།།
ཁྱོད་ཉིད་གངས་ཅན་མཁས་པའི་གཙུག་གི་རྒྱན།།
ཁྱོད་ཉིད་རིམ་གཉིས་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྲུབ་དབང་རྗེ།།
ཁྱོད་ཉིད་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར་ཆེན་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེ།།
༤ སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་སྔོན་གྱི་ཐུགས་བསྐྱེད་ལས།།
ཁ་བའི་ལྗོངས་སུ་སྐྱེ་ཕྲེང་ཟམ་མི་ཆད།།
ལྷག་པར་དུས་ཀྱི་མཐའ་འདིར་གངས་ཅན་མགོན།།
རྒྱལ་དབང་བཅུ་བཞི་པ་ཡི་ཚུལ་དུ་བྱོན།།
ཚུལ་འདི་བསམ་བཞིན་དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ།།
བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་འོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར།།
༥ གཞོན་ནུའི་དུས་ནས་སྙིང་སྟོབས་ཟླ་མེད་པར།།
ཕྱི་རོལ་མི་བསུན་རླུང་འཚུབ་ཆེར་འདུས་ལས།།
གངས་ལྗོངས་བདེ་དོན་འཇིག་པའིཉེན་གཟིགས་ཚེ།།
བསྟན་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་བའི་འཁུར་ཆེན་བདག་གིར་བཞེས།
ཚུལ་འདི་བསམ་བཞིན་དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ།།
བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་འོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར།།
༦ བོད་ཀྱི་སྣོད་བཅུད་དུས་ཀྱི་སྙིགས་མ་འདིར།།
ནག་ཕྱོགས་ཆོས་མིན་དཔུང་གིས་ཆེར་གཙེས་པས།།
ལྐོག་མར་སྲོག་ཕྱིན་ལྟ་བུར་འགྱུར་ཉེན་མོད།།
བདག་ཅག་གངས་ཅན་རེ་བའི་སྐྱབས་སུ་བཞུགས།།
ཚུལ་འདི་བསམ་བཞིན་དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ།།
བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་འོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར།།
༧ བྱེས་ཀྱི་སར་ཡང་བསྟན་པའི་རྨངས་གཞི་ཚུགས།།
བཤད་སྒྲུབ་འཆད་ཉན་འདུས་སྡེ་རྒྱས་པ་དང་།།
དེང་རབས་ཤེས་ཡོན་དམངས་གཙོའི་ལམ་ལུགས་སོགས།།
གནའ་དེང་ཟུང་དུ་འཇུག་པའི་ལམ་སྲོལ་བཏོད།།
ཚུལ་འདི་བསམ་བཞིན་དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ།།
བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་འོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར།།
༨ མེས་པོའི་མཛད་རྗེས་བོད་བརྒྱུད་རྒྱལ་བའི་བསྟན།
གསར་བརྗེའི་དུས་དང་ལྟ་སྤྱོད་ཕྲད་པ་ན།
མ་ཞུམ་སྤོབས་པས་གོ་སྐབས་དང་ལེན་གྱིས།
བོད་ཀྱི་གཅེས་ནོར་གསལ་སྟོན་ལམ་བཟང་སྤེལ།
ཚུལ་འདི་བསམ་བཞིན་དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ།།
བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་འོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར།།
༩ ཁྱད་པར་དབུ་ཚད་རིགས་པའི་གཞུང་ལུགས་སོགས།
ཆེས་ཟབ་ནང་པའི་ལྟ་གྲུབ་ཚན་རིག་དང་།
ཕན་ཚུན་བགྲོ་གླེང་དཔུང་པ་མཉམ་གཤིབས་ཀྱིས།
རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་རིག་པའི་ལྡིང་ཆར་མཉམ་སྤྱོད་མཛད།།
ཚུལ་འདི་བསམ་བཞིན་དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ།།
བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་འོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར།།
༡༠ ས་དགེ་བཀའ་རྙིང་ཇོ་ནང་བོན་བཅས་པ།།
གངས་ཅན་ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་རིང་ལུགས་ཆེན་པོ་རྣམས།།
བསྟན་འཛིན་ཕུ་ནུ་བཞིན་དུ་མཐུན་པ་ཡིས།།
ཕན་ཚུན་དག་སྣང་སྦྱོང་བའི་ལམ་བཟང་སྤེལ།།
ཚུལ་འདི་བསམ་བཞིན་དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ།།
བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་འོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར།།
༡༡ ཐེག་པ་ཆེ་ཆུང་རྒྱུད་སྡེ་བཞི་སོགས་ཀྱིས།།
རྒྱལ་བསྟན་ཡོངས་རྫོགས་བོད་བརྒྱུད་ནང་བསྟན་འདི།
དཔལ་ལྡན་ན་ལན་དྲ་ཡི་བཞེད་སྲོལ་དུ།།
དྲི་མེད་རིགས་པས་ངེས་ཤེས་བརྟན་པར་མཛད།།
ཚུལ་འདི་བསམ་བཞིན་དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ།།
བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་འོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར།།
༡༢ འཛམ་གླིང་སྤྱི་ཡི་དེད་དཔོན་ཁྱོད་ཉིད་དེ།།
སྙིང་རྗེ་རྩར་བཟུང་ཞི་བདེའི་ཐབས་ལམ་དང་།།
བདེ་སྐྱིད་ནང་ནས་འཚོལ་བའི་བློ་སྦྱོང་དང་།།
རང་ཅག་མི་རྣམས་གཅིག་གྱུར་ལྟ་བ་སྤེལ།།
ཚུལ་འདི་བསམ་བཞིན་དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ།།
བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་འོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར།།
༡༣ ཁྱད་པར་ཐ་དད་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ལྟ་གྲུབ་དང་།།
ཡིད་ཆེས་སོགས་ལ་མི་ལྟོས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་དུ།།
ཡ་རབས་བཟང་སྤྱོད་བླང་དོར་སྤེལ་བ་ཡི།།
ཐབས་ཚུལ་འཛམ་གླིང་ཡོངས་ལ་སྟོན་པར་མཛད།།
ཚུལ་འདི་བསམ་བཞིན་དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ།།
བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་འོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར།།
༡༤ ཆེས་རིང་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཐ་དད་བཅས་པ་ཡི།།
ས་སྟེང་ཆོས་ལུགས་ཐ་དད་ཡོད་པ་རྣམས།།
ཕན་ཚུན་འགལ་རྐྱེན་མི་འགྱུར་གཅིག་ལ་གཅིག།།
ཉེ་སེམས་དག་སྣང་སྦྱོང་བའི་ལམ་བཟང་སྤེལ།།
ཚུལ་འདི་བསམ་བཞིན་དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ།།
བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་འོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར།།
༡༥ འཕགས་ཡུལ་ཉིད་དུ་དེང་རབས་དུས་འདིར་ཡང་།།
གནའ་བོའི་རིག་གཞུང་ཁྱད་པར་སེམས་ཁམས་ལ།།
བརྟེན་པའི་ལྟ་གྲུབ་ཟབ་མོའི་གནད་དོན་རྣམས།།
དམིགས་ཀྱིས་རིན་ཐང་འབུར་དུ་འདོན་པར་མཛད།།
ཚུལ་འདི་བསམ་བཞིན་དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ།།
བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་འོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར།།
༡༦ མགོན་ཁྱོད་མཛད་པས་འཛམ་གླིང་ཕྱོགས་ཀུན་ཏུ།།
བོད་ཀྱི་ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་ཞེས་བསྔགས་ཏེ།།
ཀུན་གྱི་གཙུག་ཏུ་བཀུར་ཞིང་མཆོད་པས་ན།།
བོད་དང་བོད་མིའི་མིང་ཡང་འཕགས་པར་མཛད།།
ཚུལ་འདི་བསམ་བཞིན་དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ།།
བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་འོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར།།
༡༧ མདོར་ན་གངས་ཅན་སྣོད་བཅུད་རྒྱལ་བསྟན་སྤྱི།།
འཛམ་གླིང་ཞི་བདེ་བསྟན་འགྲོའི་བདེ་དོན་རྣམས།།
སྔོན་གྱི་ཐུགས་དམ་འཁུར་དུ་མཛད་པས་ན།།
སླད་ཀྱང་མི་གཡེལ་ཐུགས་སྐྱེད་བརྟན་པར་མཛོད།།
༡༨ ཁྱོད་ཉིད་རྒྱལ་བསྟན་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་མངའ་བདག་དང་།།
ཁྱོད་ཉིད་གངས་ཅན་འགྲོ་བའི་སྐྱབས་གཅིག་པུ།།
ཁྱོད་ཉིད་བདག་ཅག་རེ་བའི་གཞི་ལགས་ན།།
སྔོན་གྱི་ཐུགས་བསྐྱེད་མི་ལྷོད་བརྟན་པར་མཛོད།།
༡༩ སྐྱབས་གནས་དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་གྱི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།།
རྟེན་འབྲེལ་བསླུ་བ་མེད་པའི་བདེན་པ་དང་།།
བདག་ཅག་ལྷག་བསམ་དག་པས་སྨོན་པའི་མཐུ།།
མཐུ་ལྡན་དམ་ཅན་སྲུང་མའི་སྡོང་གྲོགས་ཀྱིས།།
༢༠ གངས་ཅན་མགོན་པོ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་མཆོག
སྐུ་ཚེ་མི་གཤིགས་ཡུན་ཏུ་བརྟན་པ་དང་།།
རླབས་ཆེན་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་བཞེད་དོན་གྲུབ་པ་སོགས།།
བདག་ཅག་སྨོན་པའི་དོན་རྣམས་འགྲུབ་གྱུར་ཅིག །
ཅེས་༧གོང་ས་ལྷ་མིའི་རྣམ་འདྲེན་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་༧རྒྱལ་དབང་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་བཞི་པ་ཆེན་པོ། དོན་གྱི་སླད་དུ་མཚན་ནས་སྨྲོས་ཏེ། རྗེ་བཅུན་འཇམ་དཔལ་ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་ཡེ་ཤེས་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་སྲིད་གསུམ་དབང་བསྒྱུར་མཚུངས་པ་མེད་པའི་སྡེ་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་མཆོག གུང་གྲངས་གྱ་ལྔར་ཕེབས་པའི་དུས་ཚིགས་ཀྱི་སྐབས་སུ། མགོན་པོ་གང་དེའི་ཡོན་ཏན་དང་ཁྱད་པར་དུ་ཟླ་མེད་པའི་མཛད་པ་དང་བཀའ་དྲིན་རྣམས་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་ཅིང་། བསྟན་འགྲོ་སྤྱི་དང་ཁྱད་པར་མགོན་པོ་གང་ཉིད་དང་ལས་དང་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱིས་དམིགས་བསལ་འབྲེལ་བ་ཐོགས་པའི་བདག་ཅག་གངས་ཅན་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་དོན་དུ་སྐུ་ཚེ་མི་གཤིགས་ཡུན་དུ་བརྟན་པའི་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས་པ་«དད་པའི་སྤྲོ་བ་འཕེལ་བའི་ཚིག་ཕྲེང་»ཞེས་པ་འདི་ཡང་། མགོན་པོ་གང་གི་སློབ་མའི་གྲལ་མཐར་གཏོགས་ཤིང་གཞོན་ནུའི་དུས་ནས་ཀྱང་གསུང་གི་བདུད་རྩིས་ཉེ་བར་འཚོ་བ་དང་། མི་ལོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་གསུམ་བརྒལ་བར་མགོན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་ཨིན་སྐད་ཀྱི་གསུང་ཞབས་ཞུ་བའི་སྐལ་བཟང་ཐོབ་པ་གླང་རི་བ་ལྷ་རམས་ཐུབ་བསྟན་སྦྱིན་པས། དད་པའི་ཐལ་མོ་སྙིང་གར་བཀོད་དེ་སྤྲོ་བ་ཆེན་པོས་སྦྱར་བ་དགེའོ།། །།

GARLAND OF WORDS ENHANCING THE JOY OF DEVOTION

A Prayer Celebrating the Enlightened Life and Deeds of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama on the Occasion of His Eighty-Fifth Birthday

OM SVASTI

1. Shakyamuni Buddha, supreme savior of boundless beings;
Sublime dharma, supreme medicine that cures the sickness of suffering;
Excellent sangha, supreme assembly of the realized and free;
May the infallible Three Jewels proclaim the power of goodness.

2. This Iron-Bird year of the Seventeenth Rabjung cycle,
O glorious Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the Land of Snows,
As you, our refuge, reach eight-five years,
We recall your peerless deeds and kindness.

3. Among all ordained elders, you, the most excellent.
Among Tibet’s masters, you, the crown jewel.
Among yogins of tantra’s twin stages, you reign supreme.
Treasury of compassion, you are the great bodhisattva.

4. Thanks to Avalokiteshvara’s ancient pledge, indeed,
His rosary of lives in the Land of Snows remained unbroken.
And now, at the end of this age he has appeared
As you, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, protector of Tibet.
Remembering this, our joy and devotion rise high.
We thank you, Great Treasury of Compassion.

5. From the time of your youth your courage was incomparable.
As dangerous storms gathered from afar,
Threatening to destroy the welfare of Tibet,
You took on the burden of spiritual and temporal leadership.
Remembering this, our joy and devotion rise high.
We thank you, Great Treasury of Compassion.

6. In this degenerate age, Tibet and its people
Are ever assailed by the forces of darkness,
Leaving us gasping for breath just to survive.
You remain Tibet’s sole source of hope.
Remembering this, our joy and devotion rise high.
We thank you, Great Treasury of Compassion.

7. Even in exile you uphold the Buddha’s dharma,
Building institutions for study, teaching, and meditation.
With modern education and democratic systems, you showed
How the ancient and the modern can unite in harmony.
Remembering this, our joy and devotion rise high.
We thank you, Great Treasury of Compassion.

8. When Tibetan Buddhism, the heritage of our ancestors,
Encountered the views and the ways of modernity,
You bravely took this as an opportunity
To illuminate the treasures of Tibet.
Remembering this, our joy and devotion rise high.
We thank you, Great Treasury of Compassion.

9. You showed how the insights of Buddhist philosophy,
Especially the traditions of logic and Madhyamaka,
Can stand with modern science as equals,
Sharing the realms of international enquiry.
Remembering this, our joy and devotion rise high.
We thank you, Great Treasury of Compassion.

10. For the great lineages of Tibet’s traditions –
Sakya, Geluk, Kagyu, Nyingma, Jonang, and Bon –
You showed us an excellent way: to admire each other,
Together upholding the dharma, like siblings.
Remembering this, our joy and devotion rise high.
We thank you, Great Treasury of Compassion.

11. Tibetan Buddhism, the most complete Buddhist teaching,
Encompasses the three vehicles and four tantras.
You have shown us through stainless reasoning,
How ours is indeed the great Nalanda tradition.
Remembering this, our joy and devotion rise high.
We thank you, Great Treasury of Compassion.

12. You are indeed the world’s spiritual teacher,
Showing us that the way to peace is rooted in compassion.
Teaching us to seek within for the path to happiness,
You have proclaimed that all humanity is one.
Remembering this, our joy and devotion rise high.
We thank you, Great Treasury of Compassion.

13. You have taught the entire world
That morality and ethics can be fostered by all,
Based not on where religions differ,
But on what they hold in common.
Remembering this, our joy and devotion rise high.
We thank you, Great Treasury of Compassion.

14. For the world’s many faiths,
Each with its own long history,
You showed us a better way: setting aside conflict
For friendship and mutual admiration.
Remembering this, our joy and devotion rise high.
We thank you, Great Treasury of Compassion.

15. You showed how even in this modern age,
India’s ancient traditions, especially concerning consciousness,
Maintain great meaning as foundations of knowledge.
You shine sunlight on India’s age-old treasures.
Remembering this, our joy and devotion rise high.
We thank you, Great Treasury of Compassion.

16. Because of your great deeds around the globe,
You are hailed as “the Dalai Lama of Tibet,”
Revered as the crown jewel of humans,
Exalting the words “Tibet” and “Tibetan.”
Remembering this, our joy and devotion rise high.
We thank you, Great Treasury of Compassion.

17. In brief, be it the fate of Tibet and its people,
Be it world peace, or the welfare of the dharma and of beings,
You have borne these burdens of your past vows.
We pray that you once again uphold these pledges with care.

18. You are the master of all the Buddha’s teachings.
You are the sole refuge of the people of Tibet.
You are truly the basis of our hope.
Pray remain steadfast, never wavering in your ancient pledge.

19. Through the blessings of the Three Jewels,
Through the infallible truth of dependent origination,
Through the power of our pure aspirations,
And through the support of oath-bound guardians,

20. May you, Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the Land of Snows,
Remain invincible and may you live long.
May all your noble aspirations be achieved,
And may these, our prayers, be fulfilled.

This aspirational prayer entitled “Garland of Words Enhancing the Joy of Devotion,” a supplication prayer to His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama – the most revered Jampel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso – has been composed to honor the peerless deeds and contributions of this protector of the Land of Snows on the occasion of the celebration of his eighty-fifth birthday. It has been written also to make supplications to His Holiness to live long for the welfare of both the dharma and sentient beings, and in particular, for the sake of the people of the Land of Snows who have a historical connection with him through their karma and their aspirations. With the palms of devotion folded at his heart and with profound joy, this prayer has been composed by Thupten Jinpa Langri, a Lharampa who sits among His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s students and who has had the good fortune to serve His Holiness as his principal English translator for over three decades. May goodness prevail.

Birthday Tribute Music Video

Just for fun, I searched YouTube for music videos created for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday.

Enjoy watching this cute one, "CHAKNA PADMO | KALSANG DOLMA |NEW LADAKHI SONG 2020 | OFFICIAL VIDEO | DALAI LAMA 85 BIRTHDAY" on producer's Jigstob_ Official YouTube channel.

Kalsang Dolma, vocals
Cho Cho Stanzin Desal, actor

Sunday, July 5, 2020

More Online Events to Join to Help Celebrate His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 85th Birthday

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.

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

A talk on "The Four Commitments of His Holiness the Dalai Lama" by Ven. Geshe Dorji Damdul, Director, Tibet House, New Delhi, at the request of Ven. Geshe Lobsang Tenzin, Director, Menlhai Jamtse Tibetan Buddhist Centre, Mumbai.

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.

Choe Khor Sum Ling

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.

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. 

"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."

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.

Celebrating His Holiness's Birthday, Sera Jey Translation Department - English Facebook.

The Event

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:
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.

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།"

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.

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

Schedule

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.

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.

Chapter 2: SEE Learning, Tibet TV Facebook.

The Event

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. 

"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.

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Join Geshe Tenley to Do Prayers Recommended by His Holiness the Dalai Lama During Covid-19

White Tara painted by His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, www.kagyu.org.

Every day of the week but Wednesday Geshe Ngawang Tenley goes live on Facebook for thirty minutes to offer viewers encouragement in these challenging times and the opportunity to pray together for all sentient beings.

Thirty-minute Practice Livestreaming Every Day but Wednesday

On Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays you can go to Geshe Tenley's Facebook page at 4:30 PM PT to join in on the Tara practice requested by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

I try to join every day.

Geshe Tenley Facebook.

Geshe Tenley's Facebook page says:

"We are doing this practice for the benefit of the entire world population, especially those who are affected by the pandemic.

OM TARA TUTTARE TURE SOHA

ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།"


To make sure you don't miss the session log into Facebook, go to the event and click "Interested." Facebook will alert you when Geshe Tenley goes live.


Tara Prayers

༄། སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་དང་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་མཆོག་རྣམས་ལ།།
བྱང་ཆུབ་བར་དུ་བདག་ནི་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི།།
བདག་གིས་སྦྱིན་སོགས་བགྱིས་པའི་བསོད་ནམས་ཀྱིས།།
འགྲོ་ལ་ཕན་ཕྱིར་སངས་རྒྱས་འགྲུབ་པར་ཤོག། །

SANG GYÄ CHHÖ DANG TSHOG KYI CHHOG NAM LA
In the Buddhas, Dharma and Sangha,

JANG CHHUB BAR DU DAG NI KYAB SU CHHI
Until enlightened I seek refuge.

DAG GI JIN SOG GYI PÄI SÖ NAM KYI
Through merit from giving and the rest,

DRO LA PHÄN CHHIR SANG GYÄ DRUB PAR SHOG
To aid all may I become Buddha.

ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཉི་མ་ཟླ་བ་རྒྱས་པའི།།
སྤྱན་གཉིས་པོ་ལ་འོད་རབ་གསལ་མ།།
ཧ་ར་གཉིས་བརྗོད་ཏུཏྟཱ་ར་ཡིས།།
ཤིན་ཏུ་དྲག་པོའི་རིམས་ནད་སེལ་མ།།

CHHAG TSHÄL NYI MA DA WA GYÄ PÄI
Homage! She whose two eyes bright with

CHÄN NYI PO LA Ö RAB SÄL MA
Radiance of sun and full moon!

HARA NYI JÖ TUTTĀRA YI
With twice HARA and TUTTĀRE

SHIN TU DRAG PÖI RIM NÄ SEL MA
She dispels severe contagion!

། ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha

དགེ་བ་འདི་ཡིས་མྱུར་དུ་བདག།།
འཕགས་མ་སྒྲོལ་མ་འགྲུབ་གྱུར་ནས།།
འགྲོ་བ་གཅིག་ཀྱང་མ་ལུས་པ།།
དེ་ཡི་ས་ལ་འགོད་པར་ཤོག།

GE WA DI YI NYUR DU DAG
Through the merits of these virtuous actions

PHAG MA DRÖL MA DRUB GYUR NÄ
May I quickly attain the state of Ārya Tārā

DRO WA CHIG KYANG MA LÜ PA
And lead all living beings, without exception,

DE YI SA LA GÖ PAR SHOG
Into that enlightened state

སེམས་ཅན་ནད་པ་ཇི་སྙེད་པ།།མྱུར་དུ་ནད་ལས་ཐར་གྱུར་ཅིག།འགྲོ་བའི་ནད་རྣམས་མ་ལུས་པ།།རྟག་དུ་འབྱུང་བ་མེད་པར་ཤོག།

Watch a recording of a recent 4:30 PM PT practice in which Geshe Tenley explains the meaning of the Tara mantra.

Geshe Tenley taught the 21 Praises to Tara in a series of three lectures at Kurukulla Center in 2013. The teachings were given in Tibetan with English translation. Watch the videos on the Kurukulla Center YouTube channel.

Geshe Ngawang Tenley

"Geshe Ngawang Tenley was born in 1969 and in 1989 began preparation to become a monk under the guidance of his uncle, Geshe Tsulga. He was ordained by the late Gyume Khensur Geshe Urgyen Tseten Rinpoche in 1990 and began the program of studies to become a geshe at Sera Je Monastery. During the course of his studies, he has received many teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama as well as other highly qualified masters. 

"In 1998, he received his full ordination (gelong) vows from His Holiness, and in November 2008, after eighteen years of rigorous studies, he completed his final exams to be conferred the geshe degree at Sera Je Monastery. 

Continue reading his biography on the Kurukulla Center website.

Watch recordings of his Wednesday and Sunday teachings on the Kurukulla Center YouTube channel.

See more artwork by His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje on his website.

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Three Mantras and Prayers to Stop the Spread of Covid-19

Shakyamuni Buddha.

In January 2020, the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government in exile, both circulated letters requesting readers to recite mantras and prayers to overcome Covid-19.

The Requests


Letter from the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Letter from Central Tibetan Administration.

According to Tibet.net (I cannot read the Tibetan) the prayers can be done by Buddhist practitioners who regularly practice mantras and prayers.

They request this be done as much as possible and collectively pray for the swift resolution to the crisis and the well-being of humanity.

Geshe Ngawang Tenley kindly provided the following information based on the two letters and advised following His Holiness's January 30th advice as much as possible.

Mantras


Recite the name mantra of Shakyamuni Buddha as much as possible:

OM MUNE MUNE MAHA MUNAYE SVAHA

Recite the Mani mantra (1,000,000 malas):

OM MANI PADME HUM

Recite the Tara mantra as much as possible:

OM TARA TUTTARE TURE SVAHA


Prayers


Recite the Offering and Requesting Prayer to Palden Lhamo on page 63.

Recite sutras such as Perfection of Wisdom Sutras, Golden Light Sutra, Sanghata Sutra, Diamond Cutter Sutra.

Monday, March 30, 2020

Two Mantras to Help Stop the Spread of Covid-19


Green Tara, photo by Dr. Hans-Günter Wagner, CC-BY-SA 2.0.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Eminence Kyabje Ling Rinpoche recommend reciting the Tara mantra to help stop the spread of Covid-19.

Tara mantra:

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA 


Words of Advice


His Holiness the Dalai Lama


Watch His Holiness the Dalai Lama recommend reciting as many Tara mantras as possible.



Listen to His Holiness the Dalai Lama recite the Tara mantra.

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA



His Eminence Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche


His Eminence Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche also recommended reciting the Tara mantra.

Official flyer circulated by His Eminence Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche's office.

Rinpoche also recommended reciting the Leaf-Clad Goddess Mantra.

Leaf-Clad Goddess Mantra:

OM PISHA TSI PARNA SHAWARI SARWA ZORA PRASHA MANAYE SOHA

The goddess Parnashavari, the Leaf-Clad Goddess, is associated with the healing of contagious disease according to Lotsawa House.

Rinpoche gave the oral transmission of the Leaf-Clad Goddess Mantra on January 28, 2020, at the Mahamuni Buddhist Centre in Taipei, Taiwan. Watch the last two minutes of this Facebook video, posted on February 12, 2020, to hear Rinpoche recite the mantra.

Join a Tara Mantra Online Practice Group

Geshe Ngawang Tenley


Geshe Ngawang Tenley, the FPMT resident geshe at Kurukulla Center in Medford, MA is leading a short (30 minutes) Tara practice beginning at 7:30PM ET every day of the week except Wednesdays.

Join the practice by visiting Geshe Tenley's Facebook page at 7:30 PM ET and looking for the livestream.

Tara practice with Geshe Tenley on Facebook live March 30, 2020.

If you would like to learn how to recite the prayer Praises to the 21 Taras in Tibetan then you can listen to a recording Geshe Tenley made to help people learn how to recite the prayer.