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His Holiness the Dalai Lama teaching in Strasbourg, France, September 2016. Photo by Olivier Adam.
With organizational help from numerous FPMT volunteers, the city of Strasbourg, France, hosted His Holiness the Dalai Lama on September 17 and 18, 2016. His Holiness taught from Nagarjuna’s Commentary on Bodhichitta, conferred an Avalokiteshvara initiation, and gave a public talk entitled “Ethics Beyond Religion.” Lama Zopa Rinpoche has called offering service to His Holiness the Dalai Lama “the quickest and most vast way of benefiting sentient beings.” It is the first of Rinpoche’s vast visions for FPMT.
Ten Buddhist centers representing the four Tibetan Buddhist schools were involved in this visit by His Holiness, François Lecointre, director of Institut Vajra Yogini, reported, including three French FPMT centers: Institut Vajra Yogini, Nalanda Monastery, and Centre Kalachakra. He explained that in the early 1990s, at His Holiness’s behest, Buddhist centers in France created the Fédération du Bouddhisme Tibétain, so there is never just one center organizing a visit. “Whoever wants to join can,” said François. “It is a way to develop links and harmony among centers. And that FPMT centers help to organize teachings by His Holiness strengthens our link to him and preserves the lineage. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said clearly many times that our number one priority as an organization is to serve His Holiness by all means possible. So it is great to be involved in organizing his events.”
FPMT volunteers were involved in reception, seating, security, ticketing, as well as other tasks. “The expertise of FPMT people in webcasts was also a great asset,” reported François, adding that “a record 1.2 million people listened to His Holiness’s public talk on the webcast. For each of the 8,000 people listening in the hall, 150 people were listening in their homes.” The multi-language webcast set-up had been tested earlier at the Light of the Path retreat with Lama Zopa Rinpoche in the US, he said.
Read more about His Holiness’s visit to Strasbourg in Mandala magazine’s latest online feature “Strasbourg, France Hosts His Holiness the Dalai Lama”:
https://fpmt.org/mandala/online-features/strasbourg-france-hosts-his-holiness-the-dalai-lama/
Additional details about the Strasbourg visit and webcasts of the teachings are available at www.dalailama-strasbourg2016.com and on the website of the Fédération du Bouddhisme Tibétain at http://www.fbt-asso.org.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.
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