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January 2022
January 26, 2022
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On 26th January, H.E. Ling Rinpoche embarked on a visit to Sri Lanka at the invitation of the venerable Sri Lankan sangha. Upon arrival at Sri Lanka’s Colombo International Airport VIP Lounge, Rinpoche was warmly welcomed by the most Venerable Waskaduwe Mahindawansa Mahanayake Thero, Mahanayake of Sri Sambuddha Sasanodaya Sangha Sabha of Amarapura Maha Nikaya (Deputy President of Sri Amarapura Maha Sangha Council), Ven Kosgoda Gnaninda Nayake Thero and Dr Daminda Porage Deputy Secretary General of the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC).
January 2, 2022
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Wishing all a very blessed Lunar New Year! May the new year be smooth and may all your wishes be fulfilled!
– H.E. Ling Rinpoche
January 1, 2022
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His Eminence Ling Rinpoche is deeply saddened at the passing of Venerable Thích Nhất Hạnh – one of the greatest Buddhist masters of our time. Thích Nhất Hạnh was one of the brightest lights illuminating our world, and his passing is a great loss to the whole world, in particular for the global Buddhist community. Rinpoche encourages everyone to rejoice and to be inspired by Thích Nhất Hạnh’s exemplary life of tireless service to the Buddhadharma and to promoting non-violence, peace and harmony in Vietnam and throughout the entire world. Rinpoche sends his heartfelt condolences and sympathy to all who are mourning at this time. Rinpoche joins all of you in praying that Thích Nhất Hạnh’s vast Dharma activities and blessings will continue to benefit all sentient beings throughout limitless time and space!
December 2021
December 28, 2021
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On this auspicious occasion of Je Tsongkhapa’s parinirvana and enlightenment, H.E. Ling Rinpoche wishes everyone a meaningful day of practice, prayers and virtuous actions.
December 25, 2021
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༈འཇམ་མགོན་རྒྱལ་བ་གཉིས་པའི་རྒྱལ་ཚབ་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་༧རྒྱལ་བའི་ཡོངས་འཛིན་དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་ཐོག་གོ་བདུན་པ་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་གླིང་སྤྲུལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་ཆེན་པོ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ལུང་རྟོགས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་འཕྲིན་ལས་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་མཆོག་དགོངས་པ་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་སུ་ཐིམ་པའི་དུས་ཚེས་ཉིན་སྐུ་གསུང་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་མཛད་པ་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པའི་སྒོ་ནས་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུ།།ཡོངས་འཛིན་གླིང་སྐྱེ་མིང་པས།།
December 25th commemorates the anniversary of the Parinirvana of His Holiness the 6th Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche, Principal Tutor to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. We pay homage to the beloved spiritual master’s extraordinary, enlightened activities and pray that all of His wishes be fully realized.
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On December 25th, to commemorate the anniversary of His Holiness the 6th Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche’s Parinirvana, H.E. the 7th Ling Rinpoche made a Tsog offering in front of the embalmed holy body of His Holiness the 6th Kyabjé Ling Rinpoche which is housed at His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharmasala.
December 10, 2021
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His Eminence Ling Rinpoche and all at Yongzin Lingstang Labrang joyfully celebrate the 32nd anniversary of His Holiness the Dalai Lama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
December 2, 2021
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His Eminence Ling Rinpoche sends his love, blessings and prayers to everyone for a joyful, peaceful and very happy holiday season and successful year in 2022.
November 2021
November 18, 2021
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Yongzin Lingstang Labrang extends its heartfelt wishes to H.E. Ling Rinpoche for a very Happy Birthday! May Rinpoche have a very long life and excellent health. We wish for the upcoming year to be auspicious, with all of Rinpoche’s wishes instantly and perfectly fulfilled so he may continue to spread the holy Dharma throughout the world, for the benefit of all sentient beings!
October 2021
October 20, 2021
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H.E. Ling Rinpoche participated in a celebration for the auspicious occasion of Ashwin Poornima (Buddha’s descent from Tushita Heaven) on October 20, 2021, organized by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, UP Government and the International Buddhist Confederation.
The Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and many other dignitaries from around the world were in attendance. Rinpoche participated in the celebration and inauguration of the new international airport at Kushinagar in the presence of Honorable Prime Minister Modi.
During the celebration, the Honorable Prime Minister Modi offered robes to H.E. Ling Rinpoche, and Rinpoche offered a blessed khata to the Honorable Prime Minister.
The Honorable Prime Minister Modi offered prayers to the Sacred Buddha Relic brought from Sri Lanka for veneration on this auspicious occasion.
H.E. Ling Rinpoche participated in an enriching dinner meeting on October 17, 2021 in Delhi, invited and hosted by Shri G. Kishan Reddy – the Honorable Minister of Culture, Tourism and Development of the Northeastern Region in India and the International Buddhist Confederation. Dignitaries in attendance included Shri Kiren Rijiju – the Honorable Minister of Law and Justice; Shrimati Meenakshi Lekhi – the Minister of State, External Affairs and Culture; Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal – the Minister of State, Parliamentary Affairs of India; Shri Ajay Bhatt – the Minister of State, Defense and Tourism; Shri B.L. Verma – the Minister of State, Development of Northeastern Region and Cooperation plus many other dignitaries and sangha from different countries representing the International Buddhist Confederation.
July 2021
July 6, 2021
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On the occasion of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 86th birthday, H.E. Ling Rinpoche presided over the opening ceremony and consecration of Delek Hospital’s new Emergency Room and Outpatient Department (OPD) in Dharamsala. During the visit, Rinpoche shared advice and gave a talk to the hospital’s doctors and nurses.
