Sonam tenzin rinpoche biography of barack obama

  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama meets with President Obama and attends programs at National Endowment for Democracy.
  • Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel and MP Khenpo Jamphal Tenzin Receive Audience with Kyabje Minling Khenchen Rinpoche, Kyabje Khochhen Rinpoche, and others.
  • Tenzin Sonam, a Tibetan writer and film maker currently based in Dharamsala, has a site providing his writing samples; documentaries and.

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    When the announcement was made that President Obama would not meet the Dalai Lama on the latter’s trip to the USA last month, the disappointment in the Tibetan world was palpable. I felt a little better after seeing this AFP headline “West Appeasing China on Tibet, says PM-in-exile”[Wednesday, September 16, 2009 17:43]. The report also did not disappoint:

    DHARAMSHALA, India — Tibetan prime minister-in-exile Samdhong Rinpoche on Tuesday accused the United States and other Western nations of appeasing China in regard to the mountain territory. The charge came after aides to The Dalai Lama said the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader would not meet President Barack Obama on a planned visit to Washington next month.” “A lot of nations are adopting a policy of appeasement,” Rinpoche told a group of journalists late Tuesday… “Even the US government is doing some kind of appeasement,” Rinpoche said. “Today, economic interests are much great

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    His Holiness the Dalai Lama Meets with President Obama and Attends Programs at National Endowment for Democracy June 16, 2016

    Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy since its founding in 1984, welcomed His Holiness to lunch with 30 other guests. The program that followed focussed on the themes of hope and democracy. As Gershman said, “In the struggle for human dignity there is always hope.” He welcomed barefoot lawyer Chen Guangcheng and labour organizer Han Dongfang to the gathering before inviting Congressman Peter Roskam to speak. He said that confronted by voices of authoritarianism, those of us who perceive them as hollow have to speak out and say, “That’s not true.” He praised His Holiness for articulating the truth that democracy matters.

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    His Holiness the Dalai Lama inaugurating Zabsang Choekorling monastery, 28 April 2014. DIIR Photo/Tenzin Phende

    DHARAMSHALA: His Holiness the Dalai Lama yesterday inaugurated the newly constructed Ngagyur Zabsang Choekorling monastery at the Tibetan settlement in Chauntra in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

    Addressing the gathering at the ceremony, His Holiness the Dalai Lama said that the new monastery should serve as an advanced center of learning Tibetan Buddhism, particularly under the Nyidrak lineage of Dzogchen teachings in Tibetan Buddhism.

    He also said that the successful completion of the monastic structure is just one minor fulfillment of the goal. “The real goal is the in-depth study of the Tibetan Buddhist texts and spread the teachings of the Buddha, he said, adding, “just reciting mantras and building large monasteries is not enough.”

    He also advised the Tibetan people and the monks to take pride in their Buddhist identity and make more effort in