FRIDAY

The Asia Society
725 Park Avenue at 71st Street
Manhattan
Free Monthly First Friday
6-9PM
*
Ganesh

The Tucci Expeditions
1926-1948

Photographs, documents and Buddhist Paintings from his collection in Rome. I'll have to return for this. There wasn't time.

Performance
"One Drop of Kindness"

 Guitar-Bob Bottjer and Percussion-Bashiri Johnson

 Yungchen Lhamo

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 https://youtu.be/WsxRwYdrR5A
After the performance she was in the gift shop greeting folks and
generous as ever.

~*~

https://youtu.be/IOdVNOiSRNk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungchen_Lhamo

 https://asiasociety.org/new-york/exhibitions/current

BIRTHDAY BLESSINGS

Long Life Prayer for His Holiness the Dalai Lama

OM SVASTI

O our gurus, and your line of lamas, for whom we have the deepest gratitude,

You who are the repository of the three: secret powers of body, speech, and mind of innumerable buddhas,

Who manifest in a miraculous way to each devotee according to his capacity,

To you, who are the wish-fulfilling gems, the source of all virtues and good qualities,

We offer our prayers with intense devotion

That our protector of the great Land of Snows,

Tenzin Gyatso, upholder of the Dharma, the great ocean,

May live for a hundred eons.

Pour on him your blessings

That his aspirations may be fulfilled.

The dharmadhatu, the inexpressible reality that pervades all things like the heavens,

Immaculate, full of great bliss and transcendental wisdom,

Manifests like a cloud the numberless abodes of the higher divinities,

The mandalas of the heavenly beings.

To all the higher forms of the divine ones, the yidams,

We offer our prayers with intense devotion

That Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the great Land of Snows,

May live for a hundred eons.

Pour on him your blessings

That his aspirations may be fulfilled.

O you numberless buddhas of the past, present, and future

Who are the masters of the ten powers and teachers of the gods,

Whose attributes of perfection, free from defilements and born of realization

Are the source of the buddha-activity

That appears for all time in the ocean of the suffering of the world

For the sake of all sentient beings —

To you we offer our prayers with intense devotion

That Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the great Land of Snows,

May live for a hundred eons.

Pour on him your blessings

That his aspirations may be fulfilled.

O sacred Dharmas of the three yanas,

Which liberate us from the sufferings of the three worlds,

Supremely calm, the jewel treasure of the fully enlightened ones,

Without impurities, unchanging, eternally good, the peak of virtues,

To you we offer our prayers with intense devotion

That Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the great Land of Snows,

May live for a hundred eons.

Pour on him your blessings

That his aspirations may be fulfilled.

O all you arya Sangha, awakened and unsullied,

Of highest valour in conquering the suffering of the wheel of life

With the transcendental wisdom that directly intuits the deeper truth,

Never departing from the indestructible vajra abode of nirvana –

To you we offer our prayers with intense devotion

That Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the great Land of Snows,

May live for a hundred eons.

Pour on him your blessings

That his aspirations may be fulfilled.

O you dakas and dakinis, heavenly beings of the three worlds,

Who appear in the highest paradises, the sacred places, the cremation grounds,

Who have innumerable experiences of the bliss of the void,

Supporting the yogis in their meditation on the excellent path,

To you all we offer our prayers with intense devotion

That Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the great Land of Snows,

May live for a hundred eons.

Pour on him your blessings

That his aspirations may be fulfilled.

To the ocean of guardians of the teaching, who possess the eye of transcendental wisdom,

Carrying on their matted locks the knot

Symbolic of the vows they made to Vajradhara Buddha,

The powerful ones who protect the teaching and the upholders of the Dharma –

We offer you our prayers with intense devotion

That Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the great Land of Snows,

May live for a hundred eons.

Pour on him your blessings

That his aspirations may be fulfilled.

To all you guileless ones, in whom we take the excellent refuge,

We pray with intense devotion, humbly, from our very heart,

That by the strength of these verses

Ngawang Losang Tenzin Gyatso,

He who has power over speech, the kindly one,

Upholder of the Dharma, the great ocean,

He who possesses the three secret powers,

May be indestructible, eternal, and without end.

That, seated on the supreme unconquerable throne of the vajra,

He may live for a hundred eons.

Pour on him your blessings

That his aspirations may be fulfilled.

You who bear the burdens of innumerable buddhas,

With courage carrying on your shoulders the vast activities of the fully enlightened ones,

Working for the weal of all beings, like the wish-fulfilling gem, the jewel of jewels,

May your aspiration be perfectly fulfilled.

By virtue of this may the golden era be opened

Like a gate to the great spaces, liberating all sentient beings,

Coming as the happiness of spring which comforts our sorrows

And helps the teaching of the Buddha to spread in all directions and in all ages,

Making it prosper to the summit of samsara and nirvana.

O you with the lotus in your hand, may the nectar stream of your blessing

Strengthen our mind and bring it to maturity.

May we be able to please you by practicing the Dharma;

Through accomplishing at all times the good deeds of the bodhisattvas,

May we reach nirvana.

By the blessings of the wondrous buddhas and bodhisattvas,

By the unassailable truth of the spiritual laws of cause and effect,

By the unstained power of the pure mind,

May the aim of my prayers soon be accomplished

https://youtu.be/IOdVNOiSRNk 

 

 

LINKS

H. H. the Dalai Lama Official Site

https://www.dalailama.com/

Yungchen Lhamo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungchen_Lhamo

 

IF NO ROSE...

Avoid Adapting Other People's Negative Views
by Sharon Dolin 

after Epictetus

To gaze upon the fatal
without commiserating gloom:

what every friend should be--
not one who rends her coat of doom

nor one who lets her ankle rankle
nor her dogged love to the hounds.

Be the cat in catastrophe
who survives eight more dives.

Though in the clutch of damage
a dame must age,

in the crazy-quilt of guilt
it was never your fault.

In the company of morose
always pull out the rose.

~

If no rose it close by, try these fading, but still fragrant
lillies,  rescued yesterday from the garbage

~

 

or this songstress from Tibet

"Happiness Is"

by Yungchen Lhamo

 

http://youtu.be/Ee58iv63M2A

~

If no Star Gazing lilies can be found, and

the songstress has fallen quite silent,

simply exit quickly..........laughing!

;->