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Tibetan refugees living in northeast India offered a Long Life Prayer (Tenshug) to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Thekchen Choling Tsuglakhang, the main temple of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, on September 3. Tibetans from Kalimpong, Darjeeling, Gangtok and Ravangla organised the prayer ceremony, along with representatives of non-government organisations based in Dharamshala including Utsang, the Domed Association and Chushig Gangruk. His Holiness thanked the organizers and participants for the offering and assured them that he will live for more than 100 years saying, “Although my life is devoted to the benefit for beings on this earth, as a Tibetan, I am fated to be in service of Tibet. As all of you have hoped and prayed for my health and long life, I shall live beyond the age of hundred years. There is a good possibility for that to happen and I shall pray that it happens”.
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At the ceremony, His Holiness urged Tibetans to preserve and promote the Tibetan language, saying that itholds the essence of the precious Buddhist teachings of the Nalanda tradition and the language and has the thus potential to benefit the whole world. His Holiness said, “The only complete and detailed explanation of the ancient Nalanda teaching has been preserved in the Tibetan language, which is the reason why, these days, people from China who are interested in learning Buddhism pay attention to learning the Tibetan language”. His Holiness also asked people to studytheteachings of the Nalanda tradition, looking at them in the light of reason rather than blind faith.
On love and compassion, His Holiness cited the example of human beings and how they are born out of love and exist on love. “I respect all kinds of religious beliefs which only teach love and compassion as the ultimate source of human happiness”, he said..
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