French Human Rights Minister to meet His Holiness
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Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama will meet French human rights Rama Yade and first lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy in southern France, on 22 August.
Mr. Jampal Chosang, representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in France, confirmed the meeting, VOA Tibetan news service reported Wednesday.
The meeting with French rights minister is to take place on Friday following the inauguration of a Buddhist temple near the town of Lodeve in southern France.
"I will express my respect for the spiritual leader that he is, my admiration for the man of peace that he is and my solidarity with the courageous struggle that he has been waging for so many years," AFP quoted rights minister Yade as saying.
Earlier on Tuesday, Jean-Marc Ayrault, French National Assembly Socialist group president and Nantes Mayor, called on His Holiness the Dalai Lama at his office.
On the same day, His Holiness gave discourse on dual truths - absolute and relative truth from the teachings on commentaries from Nagarjuna's "Treatise on the Middle Way".
More than 10,000 devotees from different walks of life are attending His Holiness the Dalai Lama's teaching at Zenith Nantes Metropole, which began 16 August.
His Holiness said different schools of Buddhist thought hold different views concerning these truths.
The relative truth is concerned with the knowledge of things and of mental concepts in their perceptible aspects, and absolute truth with knowledge of their imperceptible aspects, His Holiness said.
On the morning of 20 August, His Holiness will confer the "Quintessential Collection of the Inner Siddhis (Thuk-Drup Yang-Nying Kun-Tue)" from the Fifth Dalai Lama's Secret Teachings.
Later in the afternoon, His Holiness will proceed to the town of Lodeve in southern France for the inauguration of a temple at Lerabling Buddhist Institute.
The five-day discourse is being conferred at the request of three Buddhists centers- based in France- Dashang Vajradhara Ling, Pel Drukpa'i Chotshok and the Centre d'Etudes de Chanteloube.
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