DHARAMSHALA: His Holiness the Dalai Lama today began a two-day event of introduction to Buddhism for Tibetan youths at the Tibetan Children’s Village school here. Over 2,000 Tibetan youths, including college students, are attending the annual teaching. The teaching is aimed to create more awareness about Tibetan Buddhism and culture among the youths.

His Holiness will explain excerpts from his book, ‘Opening the Eye of New Awareness’ ( Tib: Lekshey Losar Migjey), which he wrote in the early 1960s. The book gives survey of general Buddhist teachings and emphasises the importance of seeking the shared values of different religions rather than focussing on the differences.
 
Addressing the youths, His Holiness said this teaching is being conducted in the hope of providing new awareness about how to generate warm-heartedness and lead a happy life.

His Holiness said that modern education and wealth can provide us food and shelter, but they cannot bring us lasting happiness. Happiness can only be achieved through exchange of love and affection towards one another, he added.

He said we share the same mutual desire to be loved and have same potential to be happy. These can be achieved only through nurturing basic virtues like love, affection and kindness, he added.