Taiwanese Buddhists throng to receive transmissions from Dalai Lama

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(TibetanReview.net, Oct05’25) – Some 5,800 devotees, including 1,300 from Taiwan, attended a ceremony for cultivating the awakening mind of bodhichitta and taking the bodhisattva vows conducted by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the Tsuglakhang on Oct 4. The day before, Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche gave an introductory teaching on Buddhism at the same venue.

The Dalai Lama told the audience that while he was not especially enthusiastic about the Buddha’s teachings when he was very young, he came to appreciate how beneficial practices for transforming the mind could be as he grew older.

Contrasting Buddhism from other major religions, he mentioned that while followers of theistic traditions repose the...

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