Dharamshala: Kyabje Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, head of Shechen Monastery of Nyingma School of Buddhism began by reflecting on Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama immediately after 1959 exodus.
‘Even in the face of such upheaval, Kyabje Dilgo Rinpoche had then said that His Holiness’ spirit was undiminished and awe-inspiring to say the least,’ Shechen Rinpoche said.
Speaking on each four commitments one after another, Shechen Rinpoche said, ‘Considering the turbulent turn of events of 20th century marked by conflicts and wars, His Holiness had then committed to promoting the cultivation of warm-heartedness, forgiveness, tolerance, and self-discipline in every level of human society so that future conflicts may be prevented. His Holiness has since been travelling around the world to plant the seeds of our shared humanity.’
Similarly, Rinpoche explained how His Holiness has dedicated equal efforts by relentlessly advocating for religious harmony and understanding after having witnessed recurring conflicts in the world of religion. ‘We are already witnessing the impacts of His Holiness’ work in promoting religious understanding.’
‘In terms of preserving Tibetan language and culture and environment, His Holiness along with heads of major Buddhist institutions have succeeded in reviving Tibetan arts, culture and tradition, while also overseeing the establishment of Tibetan schools, Tibetan medicine system and settlements.’
During his first international visits in the 70s, Shechen Rinpoche lamented how awareness of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism was limited, however, he added, recent decades are a witness to how His Holiness singlehandedly changed the narrative for good.
‘Due to His Holiness’ magnanimity and his grace and kindness, Tibetans began to be received more warmly across the world in the following decades and Tibetan Buddhism started spreading far and wide even in the scientific circles,’ said Rinpoche, also mentioning the growing recognition for Himalayan Buddhists.
Shechen Rinpoche also noted that the Buddhist teachings drawn from India’s rich ancient tradition have been kept alive by Tibetan Buddhists after it declined in India. And scientific study into Tibetan Buddhism has also discovered new potentials in the tradition to serve humanity.
Watch the full address here:
༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་བསྐྱེད་དམ་བཅའ་བཞིའི་ཐོག་གཏམ་བཤད་ལས་རིམ་ཉིན་ ༣ པ།
༄༅། །ཉིན་གསུམ་པའི་ལས་རིམ་ཐོག་དཔལ་ས་སྐྱའི་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་༧གོང་མ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་། ༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་ཆེན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག དཔལ་༧རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག ༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་སྨན་རིའི་ཁྲི་འཛིན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག ༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཞི་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག འབྲི་གུང་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེ་ཚང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག ༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཇོ་ནང་རྒྱལ་ཚབ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་བཅས་ནས་སྤྱི་ནོར་༧གོང་ས་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་བསྐྱེད་དམ་བཅའ་བཞིའི་སྐོར་གསུང་བཤད་གནང་གི་རེད།
Posted by TIBET TV on Saturday, 5 December 2020