The Dalai Lama Will Celebrate His 80th Birthday With A Global Compassion Summit

The Dalai Lama will applaud his 80th birthday this summer with a Global Compassion Summit in Southern California, a nonprofit Friends of a Dalai Lama announced Thursday.

The devout personality will flog off 3 days of events focusing on a purpose of care in a universe by vocalization Jul 5 during a Honda Center in Anaheim, according to a organizers. The Dalai Lama’s birthday is Jul 6.

The subsequent dual days of events during a University of California, Irvine, will embody discussions with a Dalai Lama’s friends, associate Nobel laureates, and other leaders with whom he has collaborated or shares common values on operative toward concept peace, according to a announcement.

“His Holiness has clinging his life’s work to definitely beam audiences all over a universe to open their minds and hearts to pacific and merciful existence,” a Venerable Lama Tenzin Dhonden, a Dalai Lama’s personal intermediary for assent and a owner and chair of Friends of a Dalai Lama, pronounced in a statement.

Dhonden elaborated on since care was a selected subject in an talk with The Huffington Post. Compassion, he suggested, is constituent to addressing all from misery to fight and violence.

“Compassion is a remedy to suffering. If we consider of it this way, a cultivation of care has a approach outcome on suffering. This relates during a personal turn as good as during a tellurian level,” Dhonden said.

“A miss of spirituality and too most concentration on greedy achievement creates competition, not with any other though opposite any other,” he added. “When we see a other as enemy, a outcome is destruction, even self-destruction. When care is applied, there is a honour for a values of others and it becomes critical to coexist in an interdependent world.”

Dhonden grew adult during Namgyal Monastery, a Tibetan Buddhist leader’s personal nunnery in Dharamshala, India. Over a final decade, he has orderly several of a Dalai Lama’s tellurian appearances.

He described Friends of a Dalai Lama as “dedicated to ordering a tellurian assembly and building a network of tellurian innovators” in support of a Dalai Lama’s prophesy in 6 areas: “human values, amicable integrity, inter-religious dialogue, environmental protection, merciful preparation and reliable leadership.”

Anaheim was selected as one plcae for a 80th birthday celebration, he said, in partial since of a City of Kindness initiative

In particular, Dhonden forked to a Kindness Month projectpromote care in medicine

Tickets for a Global Compassion Summit events, that are being concurrent in partnership with UC Irvine and a Irvine-based nonprofit Center for Living Peace, go on sale Apr 2.

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