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July 2021
July 6, 2021
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H.E. Ling Rinpoche rejoices with all on this auspicious occasion. May His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama enjoy a long, stable and healthy life for the benefit of all beings!
May 2021
May 26, 2021
26
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I’m delighted to celebrate this holy day of Buddha Purnima with my fellow members of the International Buddhist Confederation. This is the day that Shakyamuni Buddha was born, that He attained enlightenment and that He then passed into Mahaparinirvana.
Upon attaining enlightenment at the age of 36, the Buddha taught the Noble Truth of Suffering, as well as its Origin, Cessation, and the Path to cessation.
The world has been experiencing much suffering over this past year, and many of our loved ones have even lost their lives to this pandemic. This is very sad.
However, we are all well. I feel that this is an opportunity for us all to recognize our good fortune, to appreciate the things we have in life, and to acknowledge how fortunate we are to be alive and healthy.
We should rejoice.
So often we take our good fortune for granted. We do not rejoice in the opportunities we have. This is a time to recognize our situation, to rejoice in the material support we enjoy, such as the food we eat, the homes that shelter us, and the resources that sustain us.
For the sake of the people we live with and for ourselves, it is important that we remain positive and optimistic. There is a tendency to be negative and pessimistic, to not appreciate our fortunate situation. We complain about little hardships instead of rejoicing in how fortunate we are to be alive, to be well, and to be able to engage in life in a positive way.
A negative attitude brings unhappiness to ourselves as well as to those around us. We have enjoyed so many facilities in the past which we never really appreciated and that we even complained about. Actually, we all have enough to eat, we all have enough to wear, and our dwellings, though maybe not luxurious, are adequate.
With a positive and optimistic attitude, we will be motivated to help others, to be kind to them, and to bring happiness to those around us. We all have the capacity to contribute to our community in some way. This is a time to put our practice of compassion and love into action.
This is the message of the Buddha.
View His Eminence’s video here
February 2021
February 2, 2021
02
H.E. Ling Rinpoche Wishes All an Auspicious & Happy Tibetan New Year!
December 2020
December 10, 2020
10
His Eminence Ling Rinpoche commemorates the 601st year of Gaden Ngamchö, the special occasion when Je Tsongkhapa attained parinirvana and enlightenment.
December 10, 2020
10
His Eminence Ling Rinpoche and all at Yongzin Lingstang Labrang joyfully celebrate the 31st anniversary of His Holiness the Dalai Lama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
November 2020
November 18, 2020
18
༄༅། །འཛམ་གླིང་ས་ཕྱོགས་གང་ས་ནས་རང་ཅག་རྣམས་ཀྱི་འདྲེན་མཆོག་༸སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་གླིང་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སྐུའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་ཉིན་མོར་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་དྲ་ལམ་ཁག་དང་། ཞལ་པར་སོགས་བརྒྱུད་ནས་འཚམས་འདྲི་ཞུས་པར་ཐུགས་དགྱེས་ཚོར་ཆེན་པོ་གནང་སོང་བས་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་ཞུ། ཡོངས་འཛིན་གླིང་ཚང་བླ་བྲང་ནས། །
Yongzin Lingstang Labrang would like to extend our heartfelt thanks and appreciation on behalf of H.E. Ling Rinpoche, for all of the kind birthday greetings, warm wishes, long-life prayers and expressions of love sent to Rinpoche from all around the world yesterday, on the joyful occasion of Rinpoche’s birthday.
Rinpoche was delighted to receive your messages and prayers, and sends his love to all!
With thanks from all of us at Yongzin Lingtsang Labrang.
October 2020
October 17, 2020
17
࿑ འབྲས་ལྗོངས་ས་གནས་ལེའུ་བདུན་མ་འབུམ་ཐེར་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོའི་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ནས་ཇི་ལྟར་གསོལ་འདེབས་ཞུ་དོན་ལྟར་༸སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་གླིང་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ནས་སྩལ་བའི་བཀའ་སློབ། ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༠ཟླ་བ་༡༠ཚེས་༡༧ཉིན།
His Eminence Ling Rinpoche was invited to share a message on the occasion of the 8th Liu Dun Bhumther Monlam Chenmo by the Liu Dun Bhumther Monlam Committee, in Sikkim, India.
July 2020
July 4, 2020
04
His Eminence Ling Rinpoche was invited to speak at the global launch of Dhamma Chakra Day 2020 on Asadha Poornima, organized by the International Buddhist Confederation, with support from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
June 2020
June 5, 2020
05
His Eminence Ling Rinpoche was invited as the Chief Guest to provide a Welcome and Introduction to the 7th Annual Saka Dawa Interfaith Conference, hosted by Kurukulla Center (FPMT) in Boston, Massachusetts USA.
May 2020
May 21, 2020
21
Today is famously regarded in the Elders’ lineage as the holy anniversary of the Incomparable Lord Buddha’s birth, Enlightenment, and Parinirvana. It is a precious opportunity for us followers of the Buddhist teachings to align all our behaviors over the next twenty-four hours with our Teacher’s instructions and to engage in virtue and abandon negativity through recalling the story of His Eminence’s life and His Eminence’s exalted activities of body, speech, and mind.
Furthermore, this time is an opportunity for us to continue developing our inner mental continuum as a means for taming and controlling our conduct. In fact, it is taught that the ultimate intent and goal of the Buddha’s teachings is to show us that the primary means by which we are to become proper adherents of the teachings, in conjunction with maintaining a vast altruistic motivation, is nothing other than to strive in taming the mind.
In particular, it is now widely recognized that the methods for training the mind, as found in the Buddhist teachings are like an excellent medicine that generates mental happiness and tranquility for all individuals—whether they accept the Dharma or not. We should all, therefore, make efforts to engage in activities that benefit others with a thought of heartfelt compassion. To sustain this unremittingly throughout our day to day lives is, I believe, extremely important.
As His Holiness, the Dalai Lama states in his prayer known as “The Resounding Drum of Truth” (Smon tshig bden pa’i rnga sgra):
For all those who suffer from the misery of poverty, oppression, and torture,
Beset by harm, pestilence, or an imbalance of the elements,
May all their hardships and obstacles, outer and inner, be fully pacified,
And may they revel eternally in the glory of every happiness and bliss.
With sincere prayers that all this will come to pass exactly as is expressed in these words.
Ling Rinpoche
7th May 2020
New Delhi, India
