Buddha Gaya in Bihar can be considered as heart of all worldwide Buddhists. It has a history of 2600 years.Today this sacred place was targeted with a serious of bomb explosions by inhumane, extremist terrorists. We express our deepest condolences in this regard and we join with you to condemn this barbarous and brutal attack on Buddhists’s most sacred place.

July 4-- TEMPO.CO, Magelang - The German government has given Indonesia €134,072 to help research and conserve the structure of the Borobudur Temple in Central Java. Not only financial aid, Germany also brought a team of conservation experts to help preserve the historical Buddhist temple.

July 1-- Suddenly mindfulness meditation has become mainstream, making its way into schools, corporations, prisons, and government agencies including the U.S. military. Millions of people are receiving tangible benefits from their mindfulness practice: less stress, better concentration, perhaps a little more empathy. Needless to say, this is an important development to be welcomed -- but it has a shadow.

Practicing Peace in honor of Pema’s 77th birthday Please join us in celebrating Pema’s 77th birthday by taking part in our second annual birthday retreat. On this day, Pema invites you to meditate for a few hours or for the entire day, alone or with friends. Pema’s deepest hope is that this will help us plant the seed of peace in our own hearts, in our homes and in our communities. Join thousands from around the world to help make this a reality.

June 30 --Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting and perform related ritual ceremonies July 23-28 at Unity of Fairfax Church, 2854 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton (www.unityoffairfax.org). The sand painting and performances are part of The Mystical Arts of Tibet world tour (www.mysticalartsoftibet.org). From all the artistic traditions of Tantric Buddhism, that of painting with colored sand ranks as one of the most unique and exquisite. Millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period of days to form the image of a mandala, which is then dismantled as a symbol of impermanence. To date the monks have created mandala sand paintings in more than 100 museums, art centers and colleges and universities in the United States and Europe including the Arthur Sackler Gallery, Washington and the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. They also created healing mandalas in New York and Washington, D.C., following the 09/11 terrorist attacks.

June 27-- Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship Nicholas Kotsiras today announced a boost in funding from the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship (OMAC) to the Buddhist Council of Victoria (BCV), bringing the total funding commitment to $80,000 over two years. 

Dharamsala, HP, India, 28 June 2013 - On Thursday, 27 June, His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote two letters of congratulation, one to Kevin Rudd on his resuming responsibility as Prime Minister of Australia and another to Tsakhiagiin Elbegdor who was recently re-elected President of Mongolia.

When a man has learned how to live as a real human being without disturbing others, he can live peacefully without any fear in his heart.

Dharamsala, HP, India, June 24, 2013 - In letters to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed his sadness at the loss of life and property as a result of unprecedented flooding and landslides during heavy monsoon rains in Uttarakhand.

Darwin, Australia, 23 June 2013 - Before leaving his hotel for the Darwin Convention Centre, where 3000 people waited expectantly to hear him teach, His Holiness gave an interview to Karla Grant of ITV Television.