April 22, 2024
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - This morning His Holiness the Dalai Lama walked from his gate to take his seat in the veranda beneath the Tsuglagkhang, the Main Tibetan Temple. 353 performers, members of opera groups from several Tibetan settlements, who had taken part in the recent Sho-tön Opera Festival, were gathered in the temple courtyard to meet him. A lead singer of each group came to the microphone.
April 20, 2024
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - Today, the clouds had lifted, and sunlight played on the courtyard as His Holiness the Dalai Lama walked to the temple. People sat on either side of the walkway to greet him, with white silk scarves in their folded hands. Six Mongolian laypeople sat before His Holiness’s throne and recited the ‘Heart Sutra’ in Mongolian while many of their compatriots sitting in the body of the temple joined in.
April 19, 2024
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - The sky was overcast but His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s smile was radiant as he walked into the Tsuglagkhang courtyard this morning. Two Mongolians, a man and a woman, representatives of the 300 of their countrymen and women who had come to hear His Holiness teach, stepped forward to offer him cheese and then curd. He took a pinch of each and then encouraged the couple to taste them too.
April 9, 2024
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - His Holiness the Dalai Lama opened the second day’s meeting with guests from Harvard by reciting a verse, which is an aspiration for a long life and for the flourishing of the Dharma. Arthur Brooks wished His Holiness good morning and told him that today the theme for discussion would be spirituality and faith. “Yesterday you told us how important it is to remember our mother’s love.”
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