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His Holiness the Dalai Lama has agreed to address the Closing Ceremony of the Melbourne Parliament of the World’s Religions on the afternoon of December 9th, 2009.
http://www.parliamentofreligions2009.org

The following day, December 10th, will mark the 20th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Tibetan spiritual leader in 1989. The Dalai Lama is a member of the Parliament’s International Advisory Council, and has participated in several previous Parliaments.

We are very lucky here in Australia as His Holiness was here in 2007, and in coming in 2008 and 2009!I hope that we can arrange for HHDL to give dharma teachings while in Australia in 2009.

His Holiness is coming to Australia in 2008 to expound on the famous text called Stage of Meditation by the Indian pandit Kamalasila.

I have blogged about this previously but now there is a nice looking website http://dalailamainaustralia.org to go along with the tour. Thank ’someone’ because the last one was rather plain to say the lest!

Anyways here is a little from Stages of Meditation.

Moved by compassion, Bodhisattvas take the vow to liberate all sentient beings.

Then by overcoming their self-centered outlook, they engage eagerly and continuously in the very difficult practices of accumulating merit and insight.

Having entered into this practice, they will certainly complete the collection of merit and insight. Accomplishing the accumulation of merit and insight is like having omniscience itself in the palm of your hand. Therefore, since compassion is the only root of omniscience, you should become familiar with this practice from the very beginning.

The Compendium of Perfect Dharma reads, “O Buddha, a Bodhisattva should not train in many practices. If a Bodhisattva properly holds to one Dharma and learns it perfectly, he has all the Buddha’s qualities in the palm of his hand. And, if you ask what that one Dharma is, it is great compassion.”

The Buddhas have already achieved all their own goals, but remain in the cycle of existence for as long as there are sentient beings. This is because they possess great compassion. They also do not enter the immensely blissful abode of nirvana like the Hearers. Considering the interests of sentient beings first, they abandon the peaceful abode of nirvana as if it were a burning iron house. Therefore, great compassion alone is the unavoidable cause of the non-abiding nirvana of the Buddha.

Hope to see you there.

The royal free photos I purchased from the 2007 HHDL tour have finally arrived. click on the image to see a larger version.

Below are a couple of photos from the Melbourne teachings.

HHDL is coming back to Australia in 2008 to give 4 days of teachings on the famous text by the 9th century Indian Buddhist saint Kamalashila called Stages of Meditation.

For anyone interested, there is a book available entitled Stages of Meditation published by Snowlion or you can get it from amazon here

The tour dates are 6-16 June 2008 although the teaching is only for 4 days. I’m not sure on the happenings of the other days at this stage.
HHDL did say that he would prefer to teach for 10 days in one spot. Hopefully the organizing committee were listening!

More updates as they come