Dharamshala: Stressing the importance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s four commitments, Kyabgon Sakya Gongma Trizin Rinpoche, head of Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism today asserted that the glorious legacy of His Holiness is not only beneficial to Buddhist followers but the entire mankind.
He was speaking on the four principal commitments of His Holiness the Dalai Lama as part of the weeklong pre-recorded talk series organised by the DIIR, CTA.
“We as the followers of this legacy believe His Holiness’s eternal relevance as the supreme head. As such, we need to do more than simply vesting our faith, we need to wholeheartedly practice his teachings and fulfill the four commitments for us to attain true benediction” Rinpoche said.
Underlining the significance of each four commitments, Rinpoche argued that the responsibility in fulfilling them is not just His Holiness alone but the collective duty of everyone to fulfill alongside His Holiness the Dalai Lama keeping in mind that any of it has little to do with religion.
Speaking on the first commitment, Rinpoche said, “human values are not rocket science as it essentially means compassion, kindness, and forgiveness”. He further mentioned that much of the crisis facing the world today is manmade due to lack of human values and that the only way to counter the crisis is to develop and enhance ethical values.
As for His Holiness’s second commitment, Rinpoche said religious disputes are one of the leading causes of communal dispute, and because of His Holiness’s earnest efforts toward the promotion of religious harmony, many religious traditions today have come to admire and respect His Holiness. They have accepted His Holiness’ vision for a harmonious coexistence of religious traditions.
Rinpoche went on to assert that laying the foundation for religious harmony is the sole responsibility of the spiritual heads.
Stressing on the third commitment, Rinpoche insisted each individual do their bit in the preservation of the Tibetan language and culture which forms the basis of Tibetan identity.
Lastly, commenting on the fourth commitment, he said the vast and rich knowledge of ancient Indian wisdom is highly significant to resolve the problems of the modern world, further emphasising that this knowledge must be revived at all cost and it should be done through education and secular means.
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༄༅། །ཉིན་གསུམ་པའི་ལས་རིམ་ཐོག་དཔལ་ས་སྐྱའི་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་༧གོང་མ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་།…
Posted by TIBET TV on Saturday, 5 December 2020