Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written to His Excellency Uknaa Kurelsukh to congratulate him on his election as the President of Mongolia. “I have warm memories of your country,” he wrote, “which I first visited in 1979.”
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - When His Holiness the Dalai Lama entered the room in his residence from where he takes part in online virtual meetings this morning, he brought with him, and held up for all to see, the photograph of Francisco Varela that he keeps at home.
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - “This is the second day of our teachings for young Tibetans,” His Holiness the Dalai Lama began this morning. “We’ll read the remaining part of ‘Destiny Fulfilled’. Vasubandhu explained a twofold division of the Buddha’s teachings—scripture and realization.”
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - His Holiness the Dalai Lama began his teachings for young Tibetans this year by harking back to the origins of Buddhism in Tibet. He recalled that in the 7th century a Tibetan written script was created based on the Indian Devanagari alphabet.
