Rinpoche Address at “The Tibetan Festival of Compassion”

Venerable monks, your Holiness, Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna Ji and friends;
I think the earlier speakers said it all. We are talking about compassion and I must be compassionate to the gathering here, without boring them anymore.

I congratulate the organizers of this festival “The Tibetan Festival of Compassion”. Compassion as a concept is originated and born in India and from here it spread all over the world. Tibet as a nation, as a people, had the privilege or the fortune to receive it in full and to preserve it in its original tradition.

And we think, it is the Tibetan people’s universal responsibility to hand it back to its original owner, the people of India. If the humanity has to look to the future, then India must take the leadership to show the spiritual path otherwise there is no hope. This festival is a reminder to the people of India to realize their universal responsibility and to act upon it. Mahatma Gandhi has reinterpreted the concept of compassion and non-violence not only in day to day life. It is high time to show this path to the world. With these words I wish this festival a great success.
Jai Jagat.