Ringu Tulku Rinpoche ~ The beginning of Buddhism started with a dilemma

This is a short extract of a fuller series of online teachings, recently recorded in Sikkim, by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche for Rigpa.
In this series, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche takes us on a journey through the Buddha’s life, illustrating how the stages and key turning points in the Buddha's life offer valuable insights into how we can apply Buddhist values to deal with the challenges we ourselves face in this life.
If you are interested in the online teachings, here are the event details:
• Dates where videos are available: 24 July - 31 October 2020
• Content includes 19 episodes of 20 minutes
• Translation: The teachings are given in English with translation available in French, German, Italian and Spanish.
• Registration: billetweb.fr/the-life-of-the-buddha
• Videos: After you have registered you will receive an email with the access code to a Vimeo platform with videos.
***Watch a short video of Verena Pfeiffer (a Rigpa teacher) presenting Ringu Tulku Rinpoche here: • Verena Pfeiffer ~ Intr...

[@shyiwatsho5339]

Thank you Rimpoche. Very well stated

[@Obsee-le4yp]

Covenant.....Ring of love peace and respect

[@pianogirl7798]

Thank you so much, Rinpoche-la!

[@contrafax]

Thank you Rinpoche-la!

[@nellydepotter7159]

En français c'est possible ? parce que c'est bien dommage qu'il n'y ait personne pour traduire, j'ai eu l'occasion d'être aux côtés de Ringou Toulkou Rinpoché, et c'est un grand bonheur pour moi de le voir sur youtube ! Une bénédiction il est tellement doux et gentil, un grand cadeau ! 🌻🌱🤗💖😇

[@RigpaVideosTV]

Bonjour Nelly, oui bien sûr ; voici la vidéo avec traduction française : kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZq0dYqtpZx0d5o Toute la série d'enseignements est aussi disponible en français ici : billetweb.fr/la-vie-du-bouddha

[@Obsee-le4yp]

“What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?

[@gerardmorlais7870]

😊🙏🤭

[@Obsee-le4yp]

If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

[@Obsee-le4yp]

The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

[@Obsee-le4yp]

Except HIS SON JESUS CHRIS

[@OmManiPadmeHungHrih]

Dear Ringu Tulku Rinpoche: This is your most insightful video in my opinion Rinpoche, however respectfully, I believe your criticism and understanding of Western theistic religion, specifically Judaism, the root of the other two western religions, can easily be demonstrated to be based on shallow hearsay and insufficient study of Torah and its many commentaries together with a double standard Buddhist bias. You appear to approach Judaism with popular misconceptions just as many people approach Buddhism. First, the God of the Jews is absolutely infinite and Creation is merely a characteristic simplified mode of Biblical teaching, as argued by Maimonides a thousand years ago, designed out of compassion to provide simple folk with access to religious training. The idea that God has human attributes is inconsistent with Jewish teaching. Moreover Dharmakaya is the cause or creator of the other kayas. To criticize the Bible, a work of poetry, not philosophy, on the concept of creation using a Buddhist metaphysical argument is ingenuous. If you want to understand the Jewish ideas on creation you’ll have to look into the many commentaries on Genesis. Second, Biblical ethics improves the karmic status of all levels of society and thereby deserves high praise as an expression of universal compassion. Thirdly, Moses was probably the greatest Mahasiddha to appear on our planet, as even a cursory reading of Exodus demonstrates. Do you know that Moses lived 3400 years ago? Can you imagine someone attempting 200 years ago in traditional Tibet to liberate the serfs from monastic-aristocratic domination? Moses liberated 400,000 Hebrews from brutal enslavement under an absolute God-King 3400 years ago! Where was the compassion for Tibetan serfs under Tibetan Buddhism? Moses put his life in extreme peril by opposing the Egyptian ruler but because he possessed absolute Bodhicitta succeeded in an impossible undertaking. The manifestation of Jewish spirituality was an immense contribution to the development of Western democracy and modern civilization, dimensions of spiritual manifestation absent from Buddhism. Although I’m a serious disciple of Tibetan Buddhism, in the interest of truth I must protest that your view, like the Dalai Lama’s incessant criticism of Western religion, is intellectually ungenerous, sadly ill-informed and inconsistent with the elevated Buddhist standards of for example the previous Kalu Rinpoche, who never stooped to defame another religion. By the way, I attended a session of your recent KTD teaching, so you can guess who I am, and came away with a very positive opinion of your insight. To conclude I would add that the fact that Judaism does not contain explicit Mahamudra teachings, though Torah indeed does present powerful paradigms of the nature of mind, is no more an excuse to malign Judaism than to malign Theravada because it is less developed than Vajrayana.