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Protect our Peace - update on petition to Scottish Parliament
/news/protect-our-peace-update-on-petition-to-scottish-parliament/There are just a few days left before the petition to the Scottish Parliament closes.The petition asks for legislation to be created to protect places of religious importance and spiritual significance by way of an exclusion zone. More than 7,500 people have shown their support for this move and have asked the Scottish Parliament to protect places of peace from gunfire.We've received such tremendous support from all around the world and we now have the opportunity to demonstrate to the Scottish Parliament the strength of feeling on this issue. So visit the petition to find out more, sign it and share it with your friends, too. Time is short - we only have until 23 June to ask the Scottish Parliament to protect our peace, and that of all places of spiritual importance in Scotland.https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE1874THANK YOU! Read more
Bird's Eye View of Samye Ling
/about/samye-ling-drone-video/A video of Samye Ling grounds by Paul Kenyon - please click here. Read more
Petition to Create Exclusion Zones
/news/petition-to/As many of you know, recently there were two applications for planning permission for high velocity rifle ranges close to Kagyu Samye Ling.Although both of those applications were declined, many of us were shocked and disappointed to realise that currently there is nothing in Scottish Law to prohibit such firearms ranges close to places of national spiritual, tourist and cultural importance.Over 20,000 of you previously signed a Change.Org petition in opposition to the development of a firearms range beside Samye Ling. Read more
Help Overcome A Threat to Kagyu Samye Ling's Peace
/news/threat-to-samye-lings-peace/Kagyu Samye Ling Tibetan Monastery and Buddhist Centre for World Peace, set amongst the rolling hills of Eskdalemuir, is a precious beacon of peace, both locally and globally. Read more
Devotion
/buddhism-and-meditation/teaching-archive-2/chamgon-khentin-tai-situpa/devotion/Today at the request of Samye Ling, I will be talking about devotion. Devotion seems to be a rather easy term, or convenient, and rather easy to sometimes feel that you have devotion, or that you don’t have devotion. Then one can speculate, ‘why is it like this?’ But the devotion itself, when we really look into it, has many levels, and involves many things and many aspects. So, since we don’t have too much time, I will try to go through different particulars of devotion, and hopefully we will gain an overall understanding and picture of devotion as such. Read more
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
/news/coronavirus-update-december-2020/Although everyone hoped that the Coronavirus pandemic would have subsided by now, sadly we are in the grip of another wave of infections. Read more
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
/about/lama-yeshe-losal-rinpoche/Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche Read more