His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke yesterday, September 25, 2005, at Rutgers University to a crowd of over 36,000 people. To view this simple monk's profound (and funny) speech, click, if it works, or copy, the link below. I'm sure you'll enjoy the videos tremendously as much as I did. Just thought I'll share them with you, my dear fellow Sajhaites.

- http://www.president.rutgers.edu/dalailama/video.shtml

thanks much...looking forward to watching it...

Thanks for sharing.
Not a great speech though,funny at some point.Great leader for Tibetians.
Just made me confused when he mentioned that the buddhism started from India as I thought it was from Nepal. Maybe I was wrong than.
Why is it that India is mentioned every time there is a topic on origin of Buddha and Buddhism. So sad

Thank you for sharing the link ssNY.

ssNY,
Thanks for sharing this link. I think, there is lots of information, a great speech and ofcourse timely. Worth spending 1 hour even in hectic schedule.

I read about his speech at Rutgers in NY Times. Thanks for the video, will check it out soon.

Thanks Much ssNY ji!

Uhi Rajeev
VA, Amrika

Thank you for sharing !

It really does not matter whether buddhism sprouted from India or Nepal. Once he fled from Tibet, Dalai Lama lived in India as refugee along with his many countrymen. And also it happens that many prominent things related to Buddha are currently located in India... so I am not surprised to hear him saying like that.

One thing to notice in his speech: He made mockery of Americans in his speech!!!!! Rutgers might have decided to confer him PhD degree... but Dalai Lama cleverly spoken that such degree has no meaning, in a funny manner may be!!! It's just perhaps white race diplomacy to confer phd to Dalai lama to make America look better while in the other side it's America bullying everywhere inthe world accumulating demerit points all these years.

Overall I liked his speech. Specially when he said he doesn't care being formal in delivering the speech... Very true, why formal or informal? Which one among these two is the one about frankness and truthfulness? He questioned if being formal is simply a acting liek an actor !!

अति उत्तम

keep rolling...

Personally, I found many answers for the questions arising in my mind from his speech.. I don't know if you guys realized the many answers hidden in his speech.

I really do not understand the need to give this guy this much respect. He is such a liar. I know Nepal does not allow him to come in our country so he does not say that Buddha was born in India. I think he is responsible for telling that lie to everyone.

I am not supporting the fact that Nepal did not allow him to enter the country (i am sure our country has its limits) but how can a said Godly man lie on that fact.

Also, i did not see anything worth listening to in his entire speech. Even a child knows today that Peace is better than war but then what has he done to get peace. He is such a loser himself.

I am a supporter of China and so will never support this guy.

I don't think Dalai Lama specifically said if Buddha was born in India. But for sure Buddhism started from India... but that doesn't make India a HERO in the world map. It's country like Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Japan, Tibet and Nepal who practiced buddhism in their hearts, not India.

Manab, now you look like a loser!!!

Thanks for the link, SSny.

His speech is worth listening as always. He said that we need to educate ourselves to reduce the gap between appearance and the reality. That's the essence of Buddha's teaching. Of course, we heard/read that before from him and from so many others. But he emphasized to practice, the hardest part. So many people outside Nepal and India have benefited by practicing Buddha's teachings. But we keep quarreling about his origin. It is now time for us to experiment and then practice his teachings for our own good and the good of so many others.

Mr.Bigpond!

Even though Budda was boron in Nepal, but he was enlighten in Buddhagay on top
of that Buddhism was not national religion in Nepal, Buddhism was spread by by Emporar Ashok and Ashok daughter Charumati was married to Angsu Burma, their daughter Princess was married to King Songsonggumpa then King of Tibet, whatever reason, aftervisiting Guru Rimpoche and spent 40 years in Tibet, then Tibetean ruler sent their Priest to study Buddhism, whoever returned from India with dept knowledge
of buddhism they began writing according indian priest this is --------

After listening to Dalai Lama's speech, I realized how hard it is to be become truely buddhist monk free of greed, jealousy, and anger. Dalai Lama himself said that still he has anger, jealousy inside him surfacing now and then.. example given was how he felt jealous when the other translator could speak beautiful english.

But true monks would never make such comment for himself. because true monks are already free of such bad qualities....

So practicing is good always... but very hard to achieve nirvana.. that's what Dalai proved in that speech.

I have read a lot of books by the Dalai Lama. I might have listened fragments of his speeches now and then. He is a great person with wider and deeper vision. During one hour of his speech - he covered a whole lot. Global economy to Nuclear war fare, pre and post coldwar era. I guess, I understood the true meaning of "Compassion" better.He is the great HUMAN.

Some guys/girls might have disgreement with his speech - like mentioning India as origin of Buddism, and some one pointed out his speech as hilarious. But I disagree with these ideas. These criticisms have no weight.

Good point , SD MAN!!!!!

To many of you, "You're welcome". To some of you, hey, as the culinary saying would go, "not everybody likes Momo - or Shel Roti". But, this was only about sharing. Sharing what I found and, as I do, enjoying what you have to share.

For the ones who liked this so much and craving for more, here's another one from Vancouver, Canada. Make sure to click on the "Public Talk" where His Holiness is introduced by Archibishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa.

Link may not work, never works for me, so you have to work extra hard by copying and pasitng...... Enjoy...Learn......... and, again, just Enjoy.........


- http://events.onlinebroadcasting.com/dalailama/042004/index2.php?page=launch