NY Times - U.S. President Barack Obama still plans to meet the Dalai Lama, the White House said on Tuesday, despite China’s warning that such a meeting would hurt ties already strained by U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan.
Digging in on two points of discord, China vowed to impose unspecified sanctions against U.S. companies selling arms to Taiwan and said any meeting between Obama and the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader would hurt bilateral ties.
Barack Obama
The White House shrugged off Beijing’s warning.
“The president told China’s leaders during his trip last year that he would meet with the Dalai Lama and he intends to do so,” White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters travelling with Obama to New Hampshire.
“We expect that our relationship with China is mature enough where we can work on areas of mutual concern such as climate, the global economy and non-proliferation and discuss frankly and candidly those areas where we disagree.”
China has become increasingly vocal in opposing meetings between foreign leaders and the Dalai Lama, who Beijing deems a dangerous separatist. A meeting between the Tibetan leader and Obama would raise tensions between the world’s biggest and third-biggest economies.
Ties between the United States and China have also soured over trade and currency quarrels, cyber security and control of the Internet, and Beijing’s jailing of dissidents.
U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Washington wanted to “work through” disputes in various bilateral meetings the United States has with China.
“You have two of the most powerful nations on earth and our interests coincide in many areas and our interests collide occasionally in a handful of those,” he told reporters.
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This statue of Lord Buddha is made from about hundred precious medicinal herbal ingredients, among them sandalwood, gurgum, saffron. Combination of these herbs helps to bring a peace and power of concentration to the mind.
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Healing Buddha Praying Incense Set
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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.
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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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