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Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet

༄༅། ས་སྟེང་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་བྱམས་བརྩེའི་བདག་ཉིད། འཛམ་གླིང་ཞི་བདེའི་དེད་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ། བོད་མི་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་མགོན་སྐྱབས། བདག་གི་ཚེ་སྲོག་ལས་ཀྱང་རྩ་ཆེ་བ། ༧གོང་ས་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་སྐུ་ཚེ་བསྐལ་བརྒྱར་བརྟན་ཅིང་བཞེད་དོན་ལྷུན་གྱིས་འགྲུབ་པའི་གདུང་ཤུགས་དྲག་པོས་སྨོན་ལམ་དང། རང་ངོས་ནས་མགོན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་དགོངས་བསྒྲུབ་རྒྱུར་སྒོ་གསུམ་གུས་པ་ཆེན་པོས་དམ་བཅའ་བརྟན་པོ་ཡོད།། His Holiness the Dalai Lama Global Icon of Peace Ocean of Wisdom Supreme Symbol of Tibetan Identity and Unity The breath of my life May you live for a hundred eons While I pledge to make efforts to fulfill your wishes and aspirations May I have the strength,Continue reading “Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet”

TOWARDS THE DREAM, How is it to be a Tibetan woman in today’s world?

Tenzin Dhardon Sharling opens new ways to Tibetan women. Text: Jaana-Mirjam Mustavuori Photos: Johanna Myllymäki Source: VOI HYVIN (Finland’s lifestyle magazine) Interview date: November 6, 2011 Place: Helsinki, Finland Translation from Finnish to English: Erja Sini-Kaarina Varis, edited by Albion M. Butters All expectations dissolve in an instant when I meet this speaker of TibetanContinue reading “TOWARDS THE DREAM, How is it to be a Tibetan woman in today’s world?”

Exile – the Nursery of Nationalism

This article appeared in the April 2013 edition of  Seminar magazine. http://www.india-seminar.com/2013/644/644_dhardon_sharling.htm “There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of one’s native land.” ( Euripides, 431 B.C.)   SINCE the beginning of the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1949, approximately 1.2 million Tibetans have been killed, a figure denied by the ChineseContinue reading “Exile – the Nursery of Nationalism”

Honoring Dr. Ama Jetsun Pema

On a cold winter morning in December 2012, the mother figure for hundred thousands of Tibetan children stood tall amid the dignitaries, luminaries and students  of  the University of San Francisco  (USF).  Ama (mother) Jetsun Pema was being conferred with the honorary doctorate by USF. The statement released by USF on the eve of theContinue reading “Honoring Dr. Ama Jetsun Pema”