His Holiness the Dalai Lama made his first foreign visit outside Tibet in 1954 when he spent almost a year in China meeting with its leaders and touring various places. In 1956, Hi...
During public teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in India you are advised to bring the following items: a cushion, a cup, and a sunhat. Given the security checks that take pl...
The first seven verses of the Eight Verses for Training the Mind deal with the practices associated with cultivating the method aspect of the path such as compassion, altruism, asp...
A Prayer Composed by:His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso The Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet Honoring and Invoking the Great Compassionof the Three Jewels; the Buddha, the Teachings,and...
General presentation of the Dharma The Buddha's Dharma, can be divided to two vehicles, the Hinayana and the Mahayana. The Hinayana itself can be divided into the vehicle of the...
When His Holiness is in Dharamsala, we try to schedule outdoor public blessing lines on the mornings of Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. During these blessing lines, individuals ha...
In view of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's advanced age, his private audience schedule has being drastically reduced. We suggest people wanting to see His Holiness try joining a publ...
In view of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's advanced age, there is a need to limit his engagement schedule, including interviews. The very limited opportunities are scheduled only two...
In view of His Holiness' advanced age, His Holiness has stopped travels outside of India. Travels within India are also very limited....
Office: ohhdl@dalailama.com Mailing address:The Office of His Holiness the Dalai LamaThekchen ChoelingP.O. McLeod GanjDharamsalaHimachal Pradesh (H.P.) 176219India Telephone:+91-...
The Gaden Phodrang Foundation of the Dalai Lama was founded by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. The Foundation aims to promote basic human values, mutual understanding among relig...
Osaka, Japan– His Holiness the Dalai Lama was greeted by a full house of 1000 people when he arrived at the newly inaugurated auditorium of Seifu High School, today. The Chairman o...
Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the Tibetan people’s peaceful uprising of 1959 against Communist China’s repression in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, and the third anniversary of t...
March 14th 2011 To the members of the Fourteenth Assembly of the Tibetan People’s Deputies, It is common knowledge that ancient Tibet, consisting of three provinces (Cholkha-...
After coming into exile, I have made sincere efforts to establish a democratic system of governance in the last more than 30 years. The Tibetans in exile say “our democracy is a gi...
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Osaka, Japan – After lunch yesterday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama continued his explanation of Shantideva’s ‘Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’. In his summary of the ess...
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Koyasan, Japan - On a cool grey morning of light rain, His Holiness left Osaka and traveled up, along narrow roads, around winding turns, into the mists and reddening maples of Koy...
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Koyasan, Japan - Koyasan, Japan’s charged mountain of temples, was all heavy mists, thick silence, rusting trees when His Holiness left the main temple, Kongobuji, where he had bee...
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Tokyo, Japan - Long lines of junior high-school boys, immaculate in their formal, dark-blue uniforms, and visibly excited, had formed to greet His Holiness as he arrived at the Set...
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