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Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual masters, Buddha's teachings and putting the teachings into practice. Tibet,Tibetan people as well as others who are suffering. Photo: The Dalai Lama On my right is Yahne Le Toumelin, mother of Matthieu Ricard.
a canoe on the lake at sunset with a Black Spruce in the left of the frame
The skies are so smoky here right now there is no blue to be seen! So into the archives I go for #BlueSkyMonday. #Photography #EastCoastKin #Ontario
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Samdhong Rinpoche is a Tibetan religious title. Rinpoche means "precious one". The current Samdhong Rinpoche is Lobsang Tenzin, who is considered by Tibetan buddhists to be the reincarnation of the 4th Samdhong Rinpoche.
Photo His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Samdhong Rinpoche
On 5th August 2025, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama granted an audience to over 500 devotees, including foreigners, Ladakhis, and Tibetans, at the Shiwatsel Phodrang in Leh, Ladakh.
Video Courtesy: Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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As part of the ongoing celebrations of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th Birth Year, Tibet House launched its new talk series “Inspiring Conversations” with an insightful two-day session on “How to Joyfully Sail Through Highs and Lows of Life.” Led by Venerable Geshe Dorji Damdul, the Director of Tibet House, the sessions saw deep engagement with a total of over 200 participants joining across platforms— Zoom and YouTube Live. The talks were conducted in English with simultaneous translation in Russian and Ladakhi, ensuring accessibility to a wider audience. The interactive format allowed participants to pose questions directly to Geshe la, fostering a rich and meaningful exchange. Stay tuned for more inspiring conversations in this special Year of Compassion.
Inspiring Conversations: Talk Series Begins
Via :Tibet House - Cultural Centre of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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The best way to make life meaningful is to cultivate compassionate insight each morning as the motivation for your daily activities, www.compassmethods.com. youtube.com/@compassions... #motivation
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The beautiful heart of Garchen Rinpoche. 🙏❤️
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'Alarmingly low' monarch butterfly population calls for international conservation strategy: Guelph professor
Strategy requires $30 million a year in funding, ecologist Ryan Norris says #Ontario
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The most famous Buddha statue in Lhasa, Tibet, is that of Jowo Rinpoche, located in the Jokhang Temple. Tibetans regard this statue as the Buddha himself. Many of them miss Jowo as much as they miss a person.
04.08.2025 16:54 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Every year, over 80 billion animals have their lives taken for food.💔
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#animalrights #veganism #vegan #veganfortheanimals #govegan
Let us meditate on the four thoughts that divert us from samsara. We are now at the third thought, which is a reflection on karmic causality. Our future existence, with its well-being and suffering, corresponds exactly to the good and bad deeds that I am currently free to perform: it is therefore now that I should act by renouncing evil and doing only good. Dalai Lama
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Smilingly face photo of Barack Obama
Barack OBAMA
August 4, 1961🎈
“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”
Barack Obama
Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, Gyurme Chökyi Senge, was born in 1967, as the grandson of Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. A dream that Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche had one night while staying near the Bodhnath stupa indicated that his grandson was be the combined emanation of the three main lamas from Shechen Monastery who had all perished in Chinese prisons in the early sixties—the previous Shechen Rabjam, Shechen Kongtrul and Shechen Gyaltsap, Gyurme Pema Dorje. This was later confirmed by the Sixteenth Karmapa. Shechen Rabjam began receiving teachings from his grandfather, who raised him, at the age of three. During twenty-five years, he received teachings and empowerments and attended drupchen with Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He first went to the West with him in 1976.
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His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trichen and his wife.
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PeaceJam extends invitation to join the virtual film screening of Dalai Lama: The Scientist, see the Zoom meeting details below to join virtually . When: Aug 5, 2025 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/.../register/JZLCwS2UQJKqVtyRUCuPNg After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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HH the Great 41st Sakya Trizen with his grand son
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By contemplating and reflecting on the suffering of samsara, we realize that in the cycle of existence, disappointment and suffering are somewhat guaranteed because of the link between the suffering of samsara and the cause of samsara. We have the cause of samsara within us. Indeed, there is no doubt that the cause of samsara is within us. Dalai Lama
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Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we’re not doing anything. Otherwise, we’re always doing something, we’re always thinking something, we’re always occupied. We get lost in millions of obsessions and fixations. But by meditating – by not doing anything – all these fixations are revealed and our obsessions will naturally undo themselves like a snake uncoiling itself.
Not doing anything ~ Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
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* if you should want a copy, this is a photo of the Padmakara Translation Group's Translation of The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva.
01.08.2025 13:21 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Voor wie de film 'Ocean' van David Attenborough nog niet kon bekijken in de bioscoop: hij is vanavond voor het eerst op TV te zien, via National Geographic Channel.
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🇨🇦HAPPY CANADA DAY!
I want to thank all my Canadian friends for your kindness and support. Wishing you a joyful celebration! Happy to have you.
Love this so much! 
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"...My father and I went back to our car and drove home. The $20 my dad gave away was what we had planned to use for our own tickets. Although we didn’t see the circus that night, we felt a joy inside us that was far greater than seeing the circus. That day, I learned the true value of giving. The Giver is greater than the Receiver. If you want to be great, greater than life itself, learn to give. Love has nothing to do with what you expect to get, only with what you expect to give — everything. The importance of giving and blessing others cannot be overstated because there is always joy in giving. Learn to make someone happy through acts of giving." ~ Katharine Hepburn Via "Facts That Will Blow Your Mind" ..
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