The Chinese Communist government on Monday attempted to hijack the prestige of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) by holding a sideshow webinar at which hand-picked experts in “Living Buddha Reincarnation” agreed the next Dalai Lama should be selected by Beijing, rather than actual Tibetan Buddhists.
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Next month the Dalai Lama will release his first album. The album will be a collection of his mantras and teachings set to music. The project was the brain child of musician Junelle Kunin, herself a practising Buddhist.
“I’d never heard him speak like this. He really was so excited … he actually proceeded to explain to me how important music is,” Kunin said. “He leaned forward and his eyes were sparkling, and his fingers were rubbing together and he (talked) about how music can help people in a way that he can’t; it can transcend differences and return us to our true nature and our good heartedness.”
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In a recent interview, with the BBC, the 84 year old Dalai Lama commented that if his successor were female she would have to be “attractive”. After receiving criticism for the remarks he apologised.
In the interview he also discussed the refugee crisis in Europe, and voiced his feelings about US President Donald Trump, saying that his presidency was marred by a “lack of moral principle.” The Dalai Lama has met every US President since George H.W. Bush, and said he would be open to meet the President, but had never been asked.
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“We knew right away,” said Gestring, biological administrator of the FWC’s non-native fish research lab in Boca Raton. “It was definitely the largest one we have ever collected.”
The snakehead has caused considerable concern outside Florida, where the discovery of a close cousin to the bullseye, the Northern snakehead, spawning in a Maryland pond in 2002, triggered a media feeding frenzy akin to the one surrounding the Burmese python in the Everglades.
Scientists fear that snakeheads, predators that will eat just about anything and are generally larger than most native freshwater fish, could take a big bite out of local populations if they spread unchecked. The fish’s freakier attributes added to the curiosity. Much like the infamous walking catfish touted as a scourge of the Everglades in the 1960s, snakeheads can survive out of water for several days. And like the catfish, a few species purportedly can wiggle across short distances on land on their fins.
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” released by aquarium owners…Asian breeders…” probably not…
Probably released by the Dahli Llama and Buddhist monks who asked for and received permission to ” practice their beliefs “. In a pre-announced plan and over a few years, they visited every headway of every major river and lake in the US, chanting over the headwaters at lakes and rivers and shores in a language Americans didn’t understand yet smiled approval over in the many photographed accounts in newspapers. Wisdom?
These men released into the waters, objects; symbols- live and dead, which they ” brought with them and had prayed over ” that their chants and live symbols would ” travel the waterways of America and enter and live in all waters here.”
And so they did.
Similar work of Buddhists covered Central Park in NYC a few years ago; colorful banners were placed throughout the park as ” a work of art “. When the passive display of ” art ” became interactive, the monks began to chant in unison, appearing red robed under hundreds of yellow-gold banner-flags atop high poles.
When the chanting and horn blowing began, which released predetermined notes in a range believed by Buddhists to worship and reach the dead. It was a success. All birds and creeping things left the park. Dogs on leashes lowered to the ground, some howling. It was reported as an unexplainable coincidence.
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The Dalai Lama, visiting the Jaipur region near New Delhi in India, has asked that mercy be shown in the case of the men accused of last month’s brutal gang rape and murder of a woman on a bus in New Delhi.
The Tibetan leader has been a steadfast opponent of the death penalty, which contradicts the Buddhist philosophy of nonviolence.
In July 2011, the Dalai Lama, then 76 years old, traveled to Chicago, where he praised Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn for abolishing the death penalty in his state.
The Delhi rape case has sparked debate over the Indian legal system, and public anger has been directed at officials in a city informally christened India’s “rape capital,” according to Reuters.
The Dalai Lama and an entourage of Tibetan monks are heading to New Orleans in May 2013 in a rally of support for communities still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
The 77-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner is expected to make at least two public speeches while he’s in the city on May 16-18.
The visit of the exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader will be sponsored by Tulane University’s School of Social Work. Additional details of the visit will be released at a news conference at 10:30 a.m. Monday.
Forum in Syracuse, NY, USA on October 8: Dalai Lama will participate in The Forum for Peace at the Goldstein Auditorium, Syracuse University. In the morning he will participate in a panel discussion on The Arab Spring and in the afternoon he will participate in a panel discussion on Shifting the Global Consciousness.
Public Talk in Syracuse, NY, USA on October 9: will give a public talk on Resolving Conflict in One World Community Through Global Consciousness at the Carrier Dome, Syracuse University.
Public Talk in Williamsburg, VA, USA on October 10: Dalai Lama will give a public talk on Human Compassion in the afternoon at the Kaplan Arena, The College of William & Mary.
Panel Discussion in Charlottesville, VA, USA on October 11: Dalai Lama will participate in a panel discussion on Compassionate Care in 21st Century Medicine in the morning at the Paramount Theater.
Public Talk in Charlottesville, VA, USA on October 11: Dalai Lama will give a public talk on Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World in the afternoon at the Charlottesville Pavilion.
Public Talk in Middlebury, VT, USA on October 13: Dalai Lama will give a public talk on Finding Common Ground: Ethics for a Whole World in the morning at Middlebury College. Public Talk in Cambridge, MA, USA on October 14: Dalai Lama will give a public talk on Beyond Religion: Ethics, Values and Wellbeing in the afternoon.
Panel Discussion in Cambridge, MA, USA on October 15: Dalai Lama will participate in a day-long multi-disciplinary forum on Global Systems 2.0 as part of programs at The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Teachings in Cambridge, MA, USA on October 16: Dalai Lama will give teachings on Kamalashila’s The Middling Stages of Meditation (gomrim barpa) in the morning as part of the 10th year celebration of Prajnopaya at the Massachusetts of Technology.
Public Talk in Providence, RI, USA on October 17: Dalai Lama will give a public talk on A Global Challenge: Creating a Culture of Peace in the afternoon at Brown University.
Public Talk in Danbury, CT, USA on October 18: Dalai Lama will give a public talk on The Art of Compassion in the afternoon at the O’Neill Center, Western Connecticut State University.
Public Talk in Danbury, CT, USA on October 19: Dalai Lama will give a public talk on Advice for Daily Life in the morning at the O’Neill Center, Western Connecticut State University.
Discussion in New York, NY, USA on October 20: Dalai Lama will be having a one-day discussion on Contemplative Practice and Health: Laboratory Findings and Real World Challenges organized by the Mind & Life Institute at the Caspary Auditorium, Rockefeller University.
Teaching in New York, NY on October 21: Dalai Lama will give a teaching on The Essence of Buddhism in the afternoon at the request of the Tibetan and Kalmyk Communities at the Lincoln Center.
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About 2000 people joined the Dalai Lama for chanting and religious teaching.
Medford is a suburb of Boston and next door to Cambridge where he was teaching at MIT the day before.
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Mitt Romney has been spending some time in his hometown of Belmont, Massachusetts, preparing for the second of the Presidential debates. The next debate takes part in Hempstead, New York, on Tuesday 16th October.
Also in the Boston area, the Dalai Lama has just finished a visit to MIT, where he has been talking on Ethics, Values and Wellbeing.
The Kalmyk Three Jewels Foundation and The Tibetan Community of New York and New Jersey announced that the Fourteenth Dalai Lama will present a teaching in New York City on Sunday, October 21, 2012 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm.
The Dalai Lama will speak on the “Essence of Buddhism” at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY. The event will be open to the public, and tickets will go on sale later this year.
The Dalai Lama has spread his message of non-violence, tolerance, compassion and wisdom around the world in over 62 countries and across 6 continents. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, the Dalai Lama has received over 84 humanitarian commendations including the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2007, and most recently the 2012 Templeton prize from the John Templeton Foundation, London, England. He has written more than 72 books.
The Kalmyk Three Jewels Foundation and The Tibetan Community of New York and New Jersey represent two distinct, cultural heritages that share a common spiritual tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, of which the Dalai Lama is considered the supreme head.
The Dalai Lama recognizes both the Kalmyk and Tibetan communities in the United States and celebrates their religious freedoms here and we appreciate the opportunity to pray for the same right for all people in the world.
Kalmyks, whose ancestors come from the Kalmyk Republic in the northwest corner of the Caspian Sea, are largely settled in the New Jersey, Pennsylvania metropolitan areas. The Kalmyk Three Jewels Foundation, a Section 501c3 organization, was founded in 2009 to help maintain and strengthen Kalmyk culture, language and traditions in the United States and around the world.
| On October 11th, while Vice President Biden and Vice Presidential Candidate Ryan are preparing to debate serious US issues, in Kentucky, another statesman – the Dalai Lama from Tibet, will be visiting neighboring state Virginia at the joint invitation of The Foundation for American Heritage Voices (their Tibetan American Cultural Division), the Tibetan Association of Charlottesville, the UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies, and the City of Charlottesville.
The Dalai Lama will be speaking on “Compassionate Care in 21st Century Medicine” and “Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World.” His choice of topics are very poignant considering the current debates around Obamacare. The city of Charlottesville is also headquarters to the National Ground Intelligence Center (the security command for the US Army), GE Intelligent Platforms (including Aerospace, Defense/Military, and Communication Systems), and SNL Financial LC (a provider of breaking news, financial data and expert analysis on business sectors critical to the global economy). While there, Charlottesville’s Mayor will be presenting the Dalai Lama with the distinguished Key to the City, giving him freedom of the city status.
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Strange news coming from San Francisco today.
The ardent Dalai Lama supporter Nancy Pelosi (a Democrat from San Francisco), is being honored by the Asian American community in San Francisco’s Chinatown
China has been an ardent critic of the Dalai Lama for years as well as being critical of nations who entertain talks with him.
Arthur Glasser, Professor Emeritus questions the authority given to the Dalai Lama when given the key to the city of Pasadena.
The Dalai Lama receiving the Key to the City of Pasadena, California in 1996 which opened “all doors” to him.