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The poor man asking Buddha ” Why I am so poor ?”

The poor man asking Buddha ” Why I am so poor ?” Buddha reply : You are not giving and you don’t know How ? Poor Man : I got nothing to give. Buddha : You have things to give, not less at all. Face: You can smile, enjoy, cheerful and happy.… Mouth: You can speak with kind words, encourage people, cheerful and give them comfort. Heart : You can open your heart to the others by sincere, truthful and kindness. Eyes : You can looking at the others with kindness and compassion. Body: You can use your own labor help out the others. See…. You are not poor at all. ” Poor in our heart are the real poor ”

Why China is angry with the Puja in Bodh Gaya

  Why China is angry with the Puja in Bodh Gaya  appeare d in  Rediff.com China's ruling Communist Party has cracked down on Tibetans who planned to attend the Kalachakra Puja in Bodh Gaya. But the Tibetan people have dared the Communists by listening to the Dalai Lama's sermons on the Internet and sharing videos on social media, says Claude Arpi. Here is the link... Some say 100,000, others speak of 200,000 devotees, from nearly 90 countries around the world, assembled in Bodh Gaya, Bihar — the place where Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment — to get the blessings of the Dalai Lama, who offered the Kalachakra empowerment. Soon after the New Year, the Dalai Lama gave the devout crowd preliminary teachings on Buddhist texts such as Shantideva's A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life.  Though the preparatory teachings took place since January 2, the main puja lasted from January 11 to 13. It did not amuse China, which became angrier wi...

Useful phrases in Sherpa

English Sherpa Welcome ཕེབས་པར་དགའ་བསུ་ཞུ། (heb-bar kaa-su-shu) Hello (General greeting) བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)* How are you? ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?) Reply to 'How are you?' ང་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན། (nga debo yin) Long time no see ཡུན་རིང་འཇལ་རྒྱུ་མ་བྱུང་། (yün-ring je-kyu ma-joong) What's your name? ཁྱེད་རང་གི་མཚན་ལ་ག་རེ་ཞུ་གི་ཡོད། (kayrang gi minglâ karay ray?) My name is ... ངའི་མིང་ལ་ ... རེད། (ngay minglâ ... ray) Where are you from? ཁྱེད་རང་ལུང་པ་ག་ནས་ཡིམ། (kayrang lungbâ kanay yin?) I'm from ... ང་ ... ནས་ཡིན། (nga ... nay yin) Pleased to meet you ཁྱེད་རང་མཇལ་པ་དགའ་པོ་བྱུང་ (kayrang jel-pa gawpo chung) Good morning (Morning greeting) སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek) ཤོགས་པ་བདེ་ལེགས། (shokba delek) Good afternoon (Afternoon greeting) ཕྱི་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (chito delek) Good evening (Evening greeting) དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (gong-to de-lek) Good night གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go) Goodbye (Parting phrases) ག་ལ...

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Live Webcasts: Kalachakra from Bodhgaya

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will grant the Kalachakra Empowerment from January 2-14, 2016 from Bodhgaya, Bihar, India. His Holiness will speak in Tibetan with English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Hindi, Russian and Mongolian translations available. The English, Chinese and Tibetan channels will carry all of the consecration prayers, ritual dances and sand mandala construction along with the preliminary teachings and Kalachakra Empowerment. The other language channels will only cover the teachings, ritual dances, Kalachakra Empowerment and Long Life Empowerment and Offerings. All times Indian Standard Time (IST=GMT+5.30) English language live webcasts can be viewed here. Chinese language live webcasts can be viewed here. Tibetan language live webcasts can be viewed here. Vietnamese language live webcasts can be viewed here. Hindi language live webcasts can be viewed here. Korean language live webcasts can be viewed here. Russian language live webcasts c...