2021 Archive
December 2021
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.
༈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.
Read more about His Holiness here.
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.
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.
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.
November 2021
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
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
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.
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
H.E. Ling Rinpoche's Message at the International Buddhist Confederation's Vesak Day Celebration
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.
February 2021
