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| Dalai Lama stresses upon to promote Values and Religious Harmony | | “In reality I’m just another human being. I’m nothing special” |  Leh (Ladakh),(Scoop News)- “In reality I’m just another human being. I’m nothing special. It’s the people who have given me the status of ‘the Dalai Lama’,” quipped Dalai Lama ,the Spiritual leader of Tibet while addressing a gathering of dignitaries at Jive-tsal Photang, Shey.
He said that his first commitment is to promote humanity and humanity on this planet is facing lots of problem including killing and in logical terms he called these problems man-made and asserted, “These problems cannot be solved through prayers but can be reduced by our efforts through action.” He said that promotion of religious harmony is my second commitment and expressed admiration for the rich harmony that exists in Ladakh between Buddhist and Muslim communities and urged all the religious heads to maintain it as he makes a mention of it everywhere. India in general is the only country where all major old rich traditions live together besides the home grown traditions and religions which projects serious religious harmony, he added.
Spiritual leader Dalai Lama was given a warm and grand reception by the people of Ladakh on his nearly month long visit to Leh today from KGB Airport Leh to Jive-tsal Photang, Shey. Minister for Ladakh Affairs and Cooperatives- Tsering Dorjey, CEC, LAHDC- Dr. Sonam Dawa, ECs and all the political leaders, councillors, Rinpoches, lamas and religious heads, LBA president and members, police officers, army officials, eminent local personalities and foreign guests were present during the reception.
Dalai Lama stressed upon every individual to contribute in ensuring peaceful humanity which he said can be attained only through inner peace. “Logically world peace comes through inner peace and warm heartedness is the key factor for compassion and inner peace which can be achieved through education,” advocated Dalai Lama. He shared that even scientists today find compassion as the basic human nature and emphasised on strengthening the education system based on inner values and moral ethics without religious biases rather than material and physical values. He mentioned about the education curriculum draft on secular ethics from kindergarten till university level and advised to introduce it in Ladakh’s education system once it get finalise towards the end of this year . “The curriculum is drafted to fit in a secular education system which can be followed by any religion to develop inner peace from childhood,” told His Holiness. He stressed on the need to study to understand religion than just doing prayers and said that his purpose of visiting Leh is to promote monasteries as an academic institution based on Nalanda education system by having a religion subject teacher with a changed name called stadub-lobon.
He said, “I have taken total retirement from politics since 2011 but I still hold the responsibility to promote Tibetan culture of peace, non violence and compassion world-wide including rich Buddhist knowledge.” He also stressed on the need to preserve environment and appealed as a friend to all the Ladakhis to contribute in promotion and preservation of ecology. He called Tibetan Buddhism as complete form of Nalanda tradition in terms of knowledge and Tibetan language the best and expressed his commitment on promotion of Tibetan Buddhist culture.
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