Tibetan Incense Shop offers you great Christmas gift for your family and friends: authentic wooden Tibetan Incense Burner.
The burners of this series are of two lengths - matched for 7″ and 12″ incense sticks; and of two designs - Tashi Dargye/Eight Auspicious Symbols/Ashtamangal, and mantra Om Mani Peme Hung.
You can buy these Incense Burners with huge Christmas discount for all the winter holidays: only us$ 32 instead of 58 for the long one, and only us$ 22 instead of 38 for the short one!
Ashtamangal Incense Burner
Ashtamangal Incense Burner
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Kuenselonline, 28 September, 2009 - A 241-year old Gyalwa Jampa thongdroel (giant thangka) of the Buddha Maitreya, or the future Buddha, was unfurled at the Phajoding monastery in Thimphu yesterday, after 47 years.
Gyalwa Jampa Giant Thangka
The 37 by 31 feet thongdroel, the first of its kind in the country, was constructed by the 14th Je Khenpo, Tenzin Namgyel, according to the principal of Phajoding shedra, Chimi Dorji.
Hundreds of devotees from Thimphu and nearby areas visited Phajoding to receive blessings from the rare thongdroel, which was displayed to the public on the advice of the central monk body for the wellbeing of all sentient beings.
Shakyamuni Buddha predicted that, due to the inevitable degeneration of the times, his own teachings would last just five thousand years before disappearing from this world. People will grow more immoral and their lifespan will gradually decrease, as will their health, stature and fortune. While such delusions as miserliness, hatred and jealousy gain strength, the world will go through prolonged periods of famine, disease and continuous warfare until it eventually resembles a vast battlefield or graveyard. Thereupon Maitreya will appear, not in his fully evolved buddha form, but as a person of regal bearing.
Shakyamuni Buddha also predicted that those who followed his teachings would be reborn in the first circle of Maitreya’s entourage and would be able to complete the spiritual path under Maitreya’s guidance.
By Rinzin Wangchuk
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled religious leader — brushed aside by U.S. President Barack Obama in favor of communist China — was saluted at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday for his work for human rights.
The presentation ceremony underscored Obama’s dilemma in dealing with China, a growing power and the biggest holder of U.S. debt, and the Dalai Lama, a self-described “simple Buddhist monk” who Beijing accuses of seeking to separate Tibet from China.
For the first time in 18 years, the Dalai Lama is visiting Washington this week without stopping by to see the U.S. president.
John McCain
The decision not to meet the Tibetan leader was made amid efforts to improve U.S.-Chinese relations on issues from stemming global warming to reigning in North Korea’s nuclear weapons. Read more »
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will not meet the Dalai Lama during his five-day trip to the U.S. capital beginning on Monday, the first time in 18 years the exiled Tibetan leader has visited Washington without seeing the president.
Obama instead intends to wait until after his November summit with Chinese leader Hu Jintao before meeting the Dalai Lama, possibly sometime in December, officials said.
The decision to break precedent and delay any meeting was conveyed to the Dalai Lama last month when Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and State Department Undersecretary Maria Otero traveled to Dharamsala, India, to explain the administration’s approach on Tibet.
“The administration, I think, is aware it is breaking a precedent … but clearly they have their reasons for that and he (the Dalai Lama) agreed with the decision that was made,” said Kate Saunders, a spokeswoman for the Tibetan Buddhist leader.
Saunders said the Dalai Lama and the Obama administration had agreed to a meeting after the U.S.-Chinese summit. The session is “likely to be before the end of the year, probably in December,” she said. Read more »
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For the first time since 1991 the President will not meet with the Dalai Lama during his U.S. visit.
Obama’s Meeting With the Dalai Lama Is Delayed
Move Appears to Be A Nod to Chinese
By John Pomfret
Washington Post, Monday, October 5, 2009
In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama’s summit with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, scheduled for next month, according to diplomats, government officials and other sources familiar with the talks.
President Obama is snubbing the Dalia Lama. (c) Getty Images
For the first time since 1991, the Tibetan spiritual leader will visit Washington this week and not meet with the president. Since 1991, he has been here 10 times. Most times the meetings have been “drop-in” visits at the White House. The last time he was here, in 2007, however, George W. Bush became the first sitting president to meet with him publicly, at a ceremony at the Capitol in which he awarded the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress’s highest civilian award. Read more »
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November 22, 2009 5:11 pm | 
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