Gedun THARCHIN at Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana

         

  Gedun THARCHIN at Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana

"GOD AND SUNYATA"

Nov. 28, 2016

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FORUM 2 - Dio e Vacuità [Śunyata] 
Ven. Lama Geshe Gedun Tharchin
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTC9ft16ZlA

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         Gedun THARCHIN is a Tibetan Buddhist monk in Gelukpa Order of Tibetan Buddhism. He completed his Ph.D. in Buddhist Philosophy in Gelukpa University in India. He studied Christian Philosophy and Spirituality in Angelicum University and Beta College in Rome.
       Currently he teaches at Fondazione Maitreya Roma, An Institute of Inter-Buddhist Culture and Inter-religious Dialogue. He has been teaching Buddhist Philosophy and Meditation in various centers and has been attending Inter-cultural and Inter-religious dialogues throughout Italy.
       His is author of several books. His articles and speeches published in various journals and Reviews in both English and Italian. And the Editor of his Archives; http://geduntharchin.blogspot.it

简历和课程 格沌达清格西

简历和课程
 格沌达清格西

藏族喇嘛。 1963年于尼泊尔出生, 父母为藏族人。他在一间西藏学校接受完基础教育，随后在印度藏传格鲁派祖寺甘丹寺的甘丹绛孜学院完成所有佛教经典课程。

林仁波切为他授沙弥戒，法王第十四世达赖喇嘛为他授具足戒。他除了跟随这两位大法师学习外, 还受教于其他重要的法师及在甘丹寺和小昭寺（Tantric Monastery)上下密院18年的密集学习过程接受了完整的格鲁派之显宗和密宗的佛教经典学习。

他专研佛教的显宗五部大论：

法称（Dharmakirti）的《释量论》（Pramaṇavarttikakarika）

弥勒（Maitreya）的《现观庄严论》（Abhisamaya-alaṅkara）

月称（Candrakīrti）的《入中论》（Madhyamakavatara）

德光（Gunaprabha）的《戒律本论》（Vinayasutra)

世亲（Vasubandhu）的《阿毗达磨俱舍论》（Abhidharma-kosa）

他获得格鲁派大学的Karam, Lopon 和 Lharam最高学位 (相等于学士

、硕士及博士的学位)。 1992年，他在十四世达赖喇嘛的宝贵支持下，用西藏文撰写了 “阿毗达磨介绍”。 (Http://openlibrary.org/b/OL22553633)。

1993年，他在默朗木祈愿大法会(Monlam Chenmo)上被授予格西学位及最高学历的拉然巴称号(Geshe Lharampa)。他于寺院期间，担任不同职务, 例如 Khangtsen, Dratsang的社区秘书, 甘丹寺格鲁派大学考官, 并在甘丹寺和小昭寺上下密院 Tantric Monastery教授哲学。他还代表寺院出席了许多在印度举办的研讨会。

随后他在英国剑桥研习英语，在罗马贝塔学院和宗座大学(University Angelicum)研究西方哲学和宗教。他曾在罗马东方和非洲研究学院（ISIAO - ISMEO）授课和参与义大利著名藏学家朱塞佩·图齐(Giuseppe·Tucci，1894—1984)收藏目录的编制项目。

2000年，他应台北法鼓山中华佛学研究所邀请作为客座教授。

他组织的筹措资金网站资助了无数居住在印度和尼泊尔藏人社区和寺庙的儿童、学生、老人和生病的居民; http://geshetharchin.blogspot.it/2014/01/attivita-sociale.html。

他定期在各种报刊杂志上发表文章，并于2003年出版了他的第一本以义大利文撰写的书籍「涅槃，佛法之路」“La Via del Nirvana, Il Dharma del Buddha”，此书由Ellin Salae出版。

自1996年以来，他在义大利和许多其他国家教授佛教哲学和静坐。他现任教于罗马佛教文化协会。

电邮: gedun.tharchin@gmail.com

The Mangala Sutta

The Mangala Sutta

Once while the Blessed One was staying in the vicinity of Saavatthi, in the Jeta Grove, in Anaathapindika's monastery, a certain deity, whose surpassing brilliance and beauty illumined the entire Jeta Grove, late one night came to the presence of the Blessed One; having come to him and offered profound salutations he stood on one side and spoke to him reverently in the following verse:

Many deities and human beings

Have pondered what are blessings,

Which they hope will bring them safety:

Declare to them, Sir, the Highest Blessing.

(To this the Blessed One replied):

With fools no company keeping.

With the wise ever consorting,

To the worthy homage paying:

This, the Highest Blessing.

Congenial place to dwell,

In the past merits making,

One's self directed well:

This, the Highest Blessing.

Ample learning, in crafts ability,

With a well-trained disciplining,

Well-spoken words, civility:

This, the Highest Blessing.

Mother, father well supporting,

Wife and children duly cherishing,

Types of work unconflicting:

This, the Highest Blessing.

Acts of giving, righteous living,

Relatives and kin supporting,

Actions blameless then pursuing:

This, the Highest Blessing.

Avoiding evil and abstaining,

From besotting drinks refraining,

Diligence in Dhamma doing:

This, the Highest Blessing.

Right reverence and humility

Contentment and a grateful bearing,

Hearing Dhamma when it's timely:

This, the Highest Blessing.

Patience, meekness when corrected,

Seeing monks and then discussing

About the Dhamma when it's timely:

This, the Highest Blessing.

Self-restraint and holy life,

All the Noble Truths in-seeing,

Realization of Nibbaana:

This, the Highest Blessing.

Though touched by worldly circumstances,

Never his mind is wavering,

Sorrowless, stainless and secure:

This, the Highest Blessing.

Since by acting in this way,

They are everywhere unvanquished,

And everywhere they go in safety:

Theirs, the Highest Blessings.

Mahamudra Prayer

Mahamudra Prayer

O Great Vajradhara, pervading all natures,

Glorious first Buddha, Principle of all Buddha families,

Within the celestial mansion of the spontaneous three bodies,

I request you please to grand me your blessings

So that I may cut the creeping vine of self-grasping within my mental continuum,

train in love, compassion, and boddhicitta,

And swiftly accomplish the Mahamudra of the Path of Union.

O Omniscient Superior Manjushri,

Father of all the Conquerors of the three times

In the Buddha Lands throughout the worlds of the ten directions,

I request you please to grand me your blessings

So that I may cut the creeping vine of self-grasping within my mental continuum,

train in love, compassion, and boddhicitta,

And swiftly accomplish the Mahamudra of the Path of Union.

O Venerable Gurus,

Spiritual Guides who, for fortunate disciples,

Promoted the heart-essence of the Dharma,

I request you please to grand me your blessings

So that I may cut the creeping vine of self-grasping within my mental continuum,

train in love, compassion, and boddhicitta,

And swiftly accomplish the Mahamudra of the Path of Union.

Please grand me your blessings

So that I may see the venerable Guru as Buddha,

Overcome attachment for samsara,

Accomplish the common and uncommon paths,

And swiftly attain the Unione of the Mahamudhra.

This body of mine and your body, O Father,

This speech of mine and your speech. O Father,

This mind of mine and your mind, O Father,

Through your blessings may they become inseparably one.

Inter-religious dialogue is the art of religions

Inter-religious dialogue is the art of religions
Ven. Lama Geshe Gedun Tharchin

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April 2016

I would like to make a brief presentation regarding Inter-religious dialogue as an art of religion. Religion in general should be a world cultural heritage and religious values have contributed for centuries to enhance the human value and dignity. 

Here I am making light on the beauty of religion in modern society. In a modern, secular society the beauty of religion is it's characteristic and capacity of enriching human value by being creative and artistically contributing harmony between different religious traditions. Every religion should be transformed into an art of Inter-religious dialogue.

If all religious traditions could become interfaith Arts, that will then become the supreme beauty of religion itself. Eventually such beauty will develop a beautiful art piece of happiness within each and every citizen and the city.

The spirit of religion should be an harmonious human heart that could bring a harmonious spirit within all levels of human societies and families, including oneself. Religious values are compatible with any social and cultural contexts, specially in regard with the cultural context of modern democratic system and globalised world.

Religion is a medicine for nourishing human soul and means of preserving healthy eco-system of our planet. Religion gives a wast methods, how to implicate by means of non violence way of sustaining lives and environment. Today Religions have ever important role to play in globe of 21 century, that has been severely affected by global crises of economy and natural disasters.

To defend our planet from growing of nuclear weapons and wars, religions have a major role to promote universal ethical values and understanding of human values. Also Religious spiritual wisdom can provide great service for reducing global warming through increasing spiritual doctrine of Selflessness and decreasing the human Egoistic attitudes.

At the end, World religions must be united in their essential messages for the sake of betterment of all human kinds and to save our planet from wars and violences. All world religions must become one family to fulfil all humanity with providing multi-religions and multicultural values and ethics.

In order to bring about the best product of religious doctrines world religions must have one common dream. Religions must be means of providing World Peace through spirit of Inter-religious dialogue and understanding of Universal moral principle “Unity in diversity and Diversity in Unity”.

This is the moment for the world religions to prove their sincerity, purity and capacity of providing peace and harmony for the human kinds. Religions must work together and come together with their best arts to bring about realization of the promise land, paradise on the earth.

May the peace be prevailed throughout the globe and may long live United spirit of world religions.

The Outer, Inner and Secret Refuge Practice of the Mahāsiddha Thangtong Gyalpo

༄༅།  །གྲུབ་ཆེན་ཐང་སྟོང་རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཐུགས་དམ་ཕྱི་ནང་གསང་བའི་སྐྱབས་འགྲོ་ནི།

The Outer, Inner and Secret Refuge Practice of 

the Mahāsiddha Thangtong Gyalpo

མ་ནམ་མཁའ་དང་མཉམ་པའི་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་བླ་མ་སངས་རྒྱས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ལ་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆིའོ། །

ma namkha dang nyampé semchen tamché lama sangye rinpoche la kyab su chi o

Sentient beings, our very own mothers, are as limitless as space—In the precious lama, who is a buddha, all of us take refuge.

སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་དང་དགེ་འདུན་རྣམས་ལ་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆིའོ། །

sangye chö dang gendün nam la kyab su chi o

In the Buddha, Dharma and Saṅgha, we take refuge.

བླ་མ་ཡི་དམ་མཁའ་འགྲོའི་ཚོགས་ལ་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆིའོ། །

lama yidam khandrö tsok la kyab su chi o

In the lamas, yidam deities and ḍākinīs, we take refuge.

རང་སེམས་སྟོང་གསལ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ལ་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆིའོ། །

rangsem tongsal chö kyi ku la kyab su chi o

In the dharmakāya, the inseparable emptiness and clarity of our own minds, we take refuge.

ཞེས་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱིས་ཆོས་རྗེ་བཀའ་ལྔ་པར་གནང་ནས་འདི་དགེ་སློང་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་བཟང་པོ་ཐང་སྟོང་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་བྱིན་ཅིག དེས་འཛམ་གླིང་གི་མི་ལ་བསྒྲགས་ནས། གནས་སྐབས་ནད་གདོན་བར་ཆད་ཐམས་ཅད་བསལ། ངན་སོང་ལས་སྐྱོབ་པར་བྱེད་དོ་གསུངས་པ་བྱིན་རླབས་ཅན་ནོ། །དགེའོ། །

This prayer carries the blessing of Avalokiteśvara, who transmitted it to Chöjé Kangapa and told him to give it to Gelong Tsöndru Zangpo (Thangtong Gyalpo), saying that if he taught it to the people of this world, it would dispel all sickness, negative influences and obstacles right now, and then also grant protection from the lower realms. Virtue!