Buddhism in America - His Holiness the Dalai Lama
BackHis Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a press conference at the Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, New York. Many subjects were discussed, but this segment focuses on comments His Holiness made on the subject of "Buddism in America."
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Uploaded: July 7, 2007 at 12:55 pm
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Length: 00:08:17
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Video Comments:
JBthree24 (November 4, 2008 at 10:50 pm)
Became a Buddhist in 2005 and it has helped me change my life for the absolute better.
earthypig (November 21, 2008 at 1:40 am)
good for you. it's your personal choice.
for me, the stuff about reincarnation turns me off. not discounting all buddhist teachings though. there's soemthing good in every religion i believe. (though i'mnot religious)
for me, the stuff about reincarnation turns me off. not discounting all buddhist teachings though. there's soemthing good in every religion i believe. (though i'mnot religious)
Suki40330 (November 21, 2008 at 12:34 pm)
You are right in that there is something good in every religion. It isn't religion that is the problem, but people. As the Dalai Lama said, in every religion, there are good people and then there are those who would use religion for their own selfish purposes.
friedsoup (November 4, 2008 at 3:14 pm)
to WickednUK: the people burning christian churches are not buddhist. The oppression in the east also oppresses buddhists. For one example, the Dali Lama himself is exiled.
Suki40330 (October 20, 2008 at 10:57 am)
Catholicism is immoral because the Vatican had enough artworks etc. stored up the value of which could feed the hungry of this world one thousand times over but they hoard it while their priests stand in the pulpits and whine that the poor people in their congregations are not giving them enough money. And that is only one of the reasons why they are immoral.
earthypig (November 21, 2008 at 1:38 am)
have you been to those poor asian countries where people are starving and you have huge pure gold budda statues stacked up impressively in buddhist temples? it's quite impressive, and immoral too, i might add.
paszompa (September 24, 2008 at 12:10 pm)
long live his holiness the dalia lama.
kyap so che
kyap so che
tubeofpassion (September 23, 2008 at 1:44 pm)
Well, whoever destroys churches or initiates violence against someone else is NOT a Buddhist. According to Buddhism, a Buddhist is a person who understand the universal truths & lead his life based on those universal truths. What the person's birth certificate say is NOT relevant. Whoever understand those principle's is Buddhist. Actually, the conversion to Buddhism is NOT necessary.
tubeofpassion (September 23, 2008 at 1:20 pm)
To be precise, Buddhism is the anatomy of living beings. Regardless of one's religion, a living being's life is judged upon by a set of principles. Those principle's were NOT invented by Budda. In fact, they are Universal thruth's (of nature) that Buddha realized himself. One of those is the pinciple of "Cause an Effect".
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