February 12, 2025
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, Bylakuppé, Karnataka, India - This morning prayers for his long life were offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Tashi Lhunpo Monastery based on the prayer ‘Homage and Offerings to the Sixteen Elders’. When His Holiness came down from his rooms on top of the temple, he was received as he entered the assembly hall by the Tashi Lhunpo Abbot, Zikyab Tulku, who was serving as the Vajra-master for today’s ceremony.
February 5, 2025
Bylakuppé, Karnataka, India - This morning, His Holiness the Dalai Lama left Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, where he has been staying for the past month, and took a short drive to Sera Lachi Monastery where Prayers for his Long Life were to be offered. Having reached the monastery assembly hall His Holiness first went upstairs to meet Ganden Tri Rinpoché, the Shartsé and Jangtsé Chöjés, as well as the abbots of eleven monastic centres of learning.
January 18, 2025
Tashi Lhunpo, Bylakuppé, Karnataka, India - This morning His Holiness the Dalai Lama attended a presentation of debate skills by monk-scholars from the major Geluk monastic centres of learning, who are participating in the Jamchö and Riktsog Winter Debate Session as part of the six year Geshé Lharampa programme. The word ‘Jamchö’ refers to treatises by Maitreya, while ‘Riktsog’ refers to Nagarjuna’s ‘Six Collections of Reasoning’.
January 9, 2025
Tashi Lhunpo, Bylakuppé, Karnataka, India - This morning an estimated 12,000 people, monks, nuns and laypeople gathered in and around the temple at Tashi Lhunpo Monastery re-established in the Tibetan settlement of Bylakuppé, Karnataka, to pray for victims of the recent devastating earthquake in Tibet. The regions of Tibet struck most severely by the earthquake were Shigatsé and Dingri. The principal monastery in Shigatsé is Tashi Lhunpo.
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