Tributes from Around the World as the Dalai Lama Turns 88

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• Craig C Lewis

• July 7, 2023

Although I am just one human being, in the short term, I aspire to contribute to world peace in thought, word, and deed, while in the long term, I pray that everyone may reach buddhahood, the trumpet state of omniscience, by ascending the paths and grounds [of bodhisattvas]. I rejoice that all our different religious traditions make prayers for the benefit of all. In the Buddhist tradition we say that we all have buddha-nature, the potential for enlightenment, within. If we take care to nurture this buddha-nature, just as we would look after another human being, we will ultimately reach the enlightenment.