London: The Office of Tibet, London organised virtual ‘Introduction to Buddhism’ talk by His Eminence Ringu Tulku Rinpoche for Tibetan youth on Saturday, 29 August 2020.
In his introductory speech, Representative Sonam T. Frasi remarked that it was with great pleasure for the Office of Tibet, London to organised this webinar to celebrate the year 2020 gratitude year for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Mr Frasi further mentioned that it has been a dream for the office to facilitate this kind of teaching or introduction to Buddhism to our younger generations brought up in the western countries and this time in England. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has always said that the younger generation must be introduced with our root Buddhist teachings.
His Eminence Ringu Tulku Rinpoche in his teaching first introduced Three Refuge in Tibetan Buddhism (Tib: དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།). Rinpoche explained Buddha, Dharma and Sangha one by one based on our popular ཇ་མཆོད། offering Prayer: སྟོན་པ་བླ་མེད་སངས་རྒྱས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།། Rinpoche also briefly explained the three trainings in Buddhism such as Morality, Concentration and Wisdom, the most important feature in Buddhism.
Rinpoche spoke for 40 minutes and then opened the floor for youth interaction and questions. Rinpoche happily and patiently answered all the questions from the participants. More than 40 Tibetan youth age between 9 to 18 years old participated in this live webinar. The duration of the teaching was 90 minutes.
Moderator Ms Tsering Tsomo thanked Rinpoche on behalf of the Office of Tibet and behalf of youth participants for his time and very insightful teaching.
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of Kagyu Order. He was trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters such as the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He took his formal education at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok and Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India and has served as Professor of Tibetology in Sikkim for 17 years. His doctoral thesis was on the Ecumenical Movement in Tibet.
-Filed by Office of Tibet, London