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"Vis Medicatrix Naturae"
Introduction
Mission Statement
Hony. Chancellor Emeritus
Message from President
The
Open International University For Alternative Medicines
charter of
Indian Board Of AlternativeMedicines
Member
International
Council for Open & Distance Education, Norway
(Consultative Status with UNESCO)
Established
under the charter of the Indian Board of Alternative Medicines, The Open International
University for Alternative Medicines is one of the largest open international educational
academies and a premier institution in the field of alternative/complementary medicines
and health promotion in India. Under the guidance of its Chancellor Emeritus, His Holiness
Lama Gangchen, founder of the Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation (Italy) and
Vice-chancellor, Dr. S. K. Agarwal, the university aims to provide a high standard of
academic programmes in the natural health sciences.
With students from all over the world and every region of India on its rolls, the
university has acquired a truly international character and profile and is in presently
actively engaged in further propagating holistic and natural therapies, through its
various courses, to all corners of the globe. It offers a wide range of diploma, degree
and post graduate programmes, through regular classes and means of distance education, in
a number of alternative therapies such as Acupressure, Acupuncture, Aroma therapy, Bach
Flower Remedies, Herbal Medicines, Electro Homoeopathy, Magnetotherapy, Naturopathy,
Reiki, Yoga, etc.
The campus of the university is situated on a picturesque plot of land and is in the
process of being developed so as to make it the ideal seat of learning for natural and
complementary therapies. Its faculty consists of qualified and experienced doctors and
educators who are committed to the needs of all its students whilst striving to research
and unearth new and productive trends and integrate them in their teaching and practice.
In the short span of a few years, the university has established itself as an organisation
of renown and innovative learning. Its credentials have been endorsed by the International
Council for Open and Distance Education (Norway), an affiliate of UNESCO, of which it is a
member and the World Association of Universities and Colleges, a global accreditation
organisation in the USA, which has granted it accreditation. The Indian Board of
Alternative Medicines, under whose charter the university has been established, is the
only organisation in India to be recognised by and affiliated to the United Nations Peace
University (established under UN Resolution No. 35/55/5/XII/80 to which the Govt. of India
is a signatory) and is also affiliated to the International Union for Health Promotion and
Education (an affiliate of the WHO).
The university, through the Indian Board of Alternative Medicines, publishes its own
course materials which are written in a simple and lucid manner to facilitate the study of
the various subjects. The medium of instruction of all the courses is English and the
materials are designed to cater to the needs of all its students who are of diverse
backgrounds, races and cultures.
The annual convocation is a keenly awaited event with students from
overseas and nationwide coming together to receive their degrees and
participate in the Board's yearly international conference of which the
convocation is an integral part. Meritorious students are also awarded
medals and trophies for their academic excellence and achievements at a
glittering awards presentation ceremony.
Motivated by its overriding desire to alleviate suffering and hardship imposed by disease
and sickness, the Open International University for Alternative Medicines will continue to
endeavour to popularise alternative and complementary therapies as a viable system of
health care, through the powerful medium of education and social service.
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Mission
Statement
The executive Board of The Open International University for Alternative Medicines believes firmly that the citizens of the world want and deserve the opportunity to receive the highest quality of health care, with the broadest range of care options. In keeping this set of beliefs, The Open International University for Alternative Medicines is organized to educate and develop health care professionals, including those already in health care practice, to serve the public with love, care and compassion.
The learning community of The University seeks to cultivate a renewed sense of purpose and leadership within each individual and to promote an enduring search for knowledge, influence and excellence in human and medical service.
These who graduate are required to demonstrate a broad understanding and competency in health care and maintain a commitment to intellectual development, health and medical practice, and scholarship in complementary, alternative and traditional medicine.
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Hony.
Chancellor Emeritus
Hony. Chancellor Emeritus
H. H. Lama Gangchen
(Renowned World Healer)
Founder
L. G. World Peace Foundation, Italy
(affiliated with United Nations)
and established more than 100 Healing Centers around the globe
and more than 50 international organisations for the promotion
and popularisation of natural healing and world peace.
Lama Gangchen on the roof of Jokhang Temple, Lhasa, Tibet
Lama Gangchen was born in western Tibet in 1941.
He was recognised at an early age to be a reincarnate Lama healer and
was enthroned at Gangchen Choepeling Monastery at the age of five.
When he reached the age of twelve he received the "Kachen"
degree which is usually conferred after twenty years of study. Between
the ages of thirteen and eighteen, he studied medicine, astrology,
meditation and philosophy in two of the major monastic universities of
Tibet: Sera and Tashi Lhumpo.
He also studied in Gangchen Gompa, Tropu Gompa and Neytsong Monastery.
He was disceple of some of the most important Gelugpa Lamas like H.H.
Trjichang Rinpoche. In 1963, he went into exile to India where he
continued his studies for the next seven years at the Varanasi
Sanskrit University in Benares. In 1970, he received the Geshe Rigram
degree (similar to a Ph. D.) from Sera Monastic University situated in
South India.
After his graduation, he worked as a Lama healer among the Tibetan
communities in Nepal, India and Sikkim, during which time he saved the
lives of many people and was named private physician to the Royal
Family. In 1981, Lama Gangchen visited Europe for the first time and
has since become a resident and Italian citizen. In the same year, he
also established his first European center: Karuna Choetsok in Lesbos,
Greece, where he planted a bodhi tree in the 'Buddha Garden', and
where he consecrated what was to become the first in a long line of
World Peace Buddha Statues, thankas and images.
Since 1982, he has travelled extensively, both healing and teaching
worldwide, leading many pilgrimages to some of the most important holy
places of different religious and spiritual denominations in the
world. Since many years Lama Gangchen promotes a very important
project: the integration between Tibetan Medicine (an incredible and
unlikely still unknown treasure of humankind) with allopathic
medicine.
Lama Gangchen is the holder of an ancient and unbroken lineage of
Tantric Masters dating from the time of Shakyamuni Buddha. His Ngalso
Tantric Selfhealing is based on Buddha's teaching but it's suitable
for modern people.
At present he has more than 100 Inner Peace Education centres or
Self-Healing Study Groups worldwide.
Doctorates, Diplomas,
Appreciations, Certificates...
“These awards are not
important to me personally; however, they are
important in the sense that the work that
myself, my friends, followers and members of the
Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation have been
doing, has been extensively recognized.
I receive them as the representative of all of
you, and I would like to personally thank you
all very much, and request you all to continue
your efforts to make the world a better and
healthier place to live. I am not at all
interested in the politics of any country, my
only wish is to share the messages of
Self-Healing, Inner Peace education and
Environmental Care everywhere.
For this reason, I accept everyone's personal
and political views and lifestyles and attend
many different kinds of meetings and
conferences. I would like to make friends with
everyone, and share good alternative ideas such
as tantric economy and energy saving, whilst
learning the idea and views of others.”
Lama Gangchen
Before 1967
- Tibetan Tantric
Medical Lama Healer, Tibet
1967-1994
- Diploma of Sanskrit,
Bramapatra, Varanasi, Sanskrit University,
1967
- Doctor in Buddhist
Philosophy (Geshe Rigram), S. India, 1970
- Appreciation by the
Man Fatt Lam Buddhist Temple, Singapore,
1990
- Honorary President
of the Academy of Energy, Informative
Sciences in Moscow, Russia, September, 1992
- Honorary President
of Yutok Ling, France
- Appreciation by the
Pokok Sena Persatuan Buddhist Center,
Malaysia, 1992
- Homage and
appreciation in recognition for his healing
work and participation in the first Seminar
on Medicinal Plants of Campos do Jordao,
Honorary citizenship, publicly declared by
the "Prefeiture Municipal da
Estancia de Campos do Jordao",
Brazil, March 23rd, 1993
- Premio
Internazionale per il Dialogo "San
Francesco e Chiara d'Assisi"
inter-religious dialogue for the year of the
family Massa/Carrara, Italy, Oct. 16, 1994
- Appreciation by the
Confucian Private Secondary School, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, November 1994
- Appreciation by the
Medicine Buddha Center, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, Nov. 1994
1995
- Doctor of
Naturopathy and Natural Homeremedies, Cosmo
Medico Healers Research Ass., linked to
Academy of Naturopahty, Atlanta Georgia USA,
Bombay, India, 1995
- Doctorate of
Holistic Medicine International Institute of
Polypathy, Delhi, India, 1995
- Doctor of Science
given by the Open International University
for Complementary Medicines, Colombo, Sri
Lanka, November 1995.
- Doctor of
Philosophy, International Independent
University of Ecology and Politology,
Moscow, Russia, 1995
- Vice-Chancellor, for
a period of five years, of the Open
International University for Complementary
Medicines, Colombo, Sri Lanka, November
1995-2000
- Visitor of the
Global Open University, Delhi, India, 1995
- Professor and Head
of Buddhism Department at the East-West
University of Holistic Health Sciences,
Missouri, USA, November 8th 1995.
- Board of Directors,
International Holistic Medical Society,
Stockton, CA, USA, 1995
- Patron of the Nepal
Buddhist Society, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1995
- Patron of the Cosmo
Medico Healers Research Association, Bombay,
India, 1995
- Patron of the
Association "International Children's
Peace Council" Italy, 1995
- National
Appreciation of the Capital Territory of
Delhi Civic Reception,"signed by Sahib
Singh Verma, Minister of Education, Science,
Technology, Environment and Development
Gov't of National Capital Territory of
Delhi, April 22, 1995.
- Academia Diplomatica
de la Paix, Fellowship Award for
Professional Excellence, issued under the
Patronage and Authority of the Dag
Hammerskjold Awards Committee, PAX MUNDI
medal award for contributions for Peace ,
Cooperation and Solidarity to benefit all
humanity by the Open Int. University for
Complementary Medicines, Sri Lanka, (reg.
with UN), March 24th to 26th - Delhi,
India , 33rd Int. World Congress for
Alternative Medicines organized by the
Indian Board of Alternative Medicines, 1995
- Honorary Degree of
the Community Association of European Order
of Merit, to promote human dignity, freedom,
solidarity and democracy in the building of
a united Europe. To encourage friendship
which transcends national frontiers and
individual differences. Signed by the
Secretary General and President of ACOEM,
November 27th, 1995
- Gold Medal for
Alternative Medicines, Indian Board of
Alternative Medicines, Calcutta, April 8th
1995
- The Ancient Royal
Order of Physicians, for having contributed
towards a global Medical Movement for the
integration of medicines, Colombo, Sri
Lanka, 1995.
- Sewa Chakra Award,
presented by the Hon. Governor of Orissa, Dr
B.S. Reddy, 2nd Intern. Congress on the
Occasion of World Health Day, Calcutta,
India, April 7-9, '95
- Gem of Alternative
Medicines, presented by Mother Teresa of
Calcutta, 8/4/95
- Eco-Peace Awards,
Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment,
Delhi, India, April 22 '95
- Two special awards,
during a National Congress on Astrology,
Palmistry and Criminology, Bombay, India,
April 17, '95
- Shree Jagatguru
Shanti Muni, Supreme World Guru of Peace, by
Oriental Research Academy of Occult
Religion, Astrology and for spreading the
humanistic message of World Peace and
Universal Brotherhood, Bombay, India, April
14-16, '95
- Certificate of
Fellow Concili Scientiarum (F.I.C.A.)
International Council of Ayurveda Ludhiana,
Punjab, India, 24 March '95
- Fellow of Foundation
of Integrated Medicines, Prashanti Medical
Care Institute, Benares, India, April 1st,
'95
- Fellow of
Environment, Indian Institute of Ecology and
Environment, New Delhi, 22 April 1995
1996
- Doctor of Energetic
Medicine, International Foundation for
Energetic Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
USA, March 6th, 1996.
- Doctor of Philosophy
Rel. Sc, East West University, Missouri,
USA, given at the occasion of the First Aids
Congress, Lahore, Pakistan, Dec. 3rd 1996
- Medical Surgeon of
Natural Sciences, Askari Academy of Tibb,
Karachi, given at the occasion of the First
Aids Congress, Lahore, Pakistan, Dec. 3rd
1996
- Honorary President,
Buddha Institute of Technology, Delhi India,
1996
- Diploma of Honorary
Membership, Brazilian Academy of Oriental
Art and Science, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
given at 34th World Congress in Sri Lanka,
Dec. 28th 1996
- Chief Patron of the
Indian Council of Acupressure Yoga, Nechua
Jalalpur, (Gopalganj), Bihar, India, 1996
- Certificate of
Appreciation by the City of Miami, USA, 23rd
August 1996
- Appreciation, Peace
Commission, ECLAC (Economic Commission of
Latin America and the Caribians), Chile,
July 1996
- United Nations
Society of Writers Award of Excellence, New
York, USA, May 24th 1996
- For the contribution
towards the 50th Anniversary Celebrations of
the United Nations, Award presented by
Boutros Boutros Ghali, Secretary General of
United Nations, Habitat II June 3-14, 1996
- Albert Schweitzer
Gold Medal, Int. Inst. of Universalistic
Medicine, Poland, Jan.'96
- International
Environmental Communication Award,
Eco-Communication Summit, New Delhi, India,
1-4 Dec. 1996
- Emblem of
Universidad del Pacifico, Santiago, Chile,
July 1996
- Emblem of University
of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August
1996
1997
- International Bodhi
Club - Love and Compassion Services, Patna,
India, Jan. 1997
- National
Appreciation, Civic Reception, International
Appreciation by Rt Hon. Sahib Singh, Chief
Minister of New Delhi, India, 25th Jan. 1997
- Honorary
Chancellor Emeritus, Open International
University for Alternative Medicines,
Calcutta, India, 1997.
- Honorary President,
Buddha Institute of Technology, Delhi India,
1996 Distinguished Service Award, Sports
Science Research Foundation, Olympics India,
World Congress New Delhi, 24 Jan. '97
- Awards of Honor by
Bihar Citizens Association, by Bodhi
International, and by Rotary Patna South,
Patna, India, Jan. 29th 1997
- World Peace Leader,
Institute of Universal Consciousness, Delhi,
India, 25 Jan. 1997
- Gem of Peace,
Acupressure Parishad, Patna, India, 28th
January 1997
- Fellow of
International Management, Indian Institute
of Business Management, Patna, India, 28th
Jan. 1997
- Fellow of
Non-Violence, Dr. Zakir Husain Institute for
Non-Formal and Continuing Education, Patna,
India, Jan. 28th 1997
- Fellow of Polypathy,
International Institute of Polypathy, New
Delhi, India, 25 Jan. 1997
- Fellow of World
Association for Integrated Medicine
W.A.I.M., New Delhi, Jan.1997
- Global Peace
Ambassador, New World Academy, London, UK.
12th Jan. 1997
- Sanskrit Award, New
Delhi, India, 23 Jan. 1997
- Royal Order of
Physicians Medal Award from Sri Lanka, given
during the First International Congress at
HHC Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb. 1997
- Doctor of Theology,
Open Intercultural University, Opeinde,
Holland, 29th April 1997
- Director of the
Global Peace University, Opeinde, Holland,
April, 1997
- Certificate of
Merit, Academic Council for Cultural
Integration of India, Spain, May 97
- Certificate of
Honor, South Asian Federation Games, India
Olympic Ass., Spain, May 17th 1997
- Professor at the
Open International University for
Complementary Medicines, Colombo, Sri Lanka
for ten years, August 1997-2007
- Honorary Advisor of
the Nepal Yoga and Nature care Association,
Nepal, Aug. 6th '97
- Honorary Membership
of Mamba Datsan, Institute for Traditional
Mongolian Medicine, Ulaan Baator Mongolia,
Aug. 29th 1997
- Certificate of
"Supreme Healer", Tashicholing
Monastery, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, Aug.28th,
1997
- Special Award,
"Guaritore dell'Ambiente" (Healer
of the Environment), given by the City of
Aquiterme, Italy, Sept. 20
'97
- Board of Directors,
East-West Combined Medical Association,
Lahore, Pakistan, 1997
- Appreciation by
SanaArte Foundation, for promoting
inter-religious dialogue, Non-Formal
Education and Self-Healing, Caracas,
Venezuela, October 1997
- Diploma for
developing a Culture of Peace, Catedra
UNESCO Planeta Libre, Caracas, Venezuela,
October 1997
- Appreciation by the
Beijing Argus Culture and Science Developing
Center, Aug. 1997
- Rector (great
supervising professor) at the Chinese
College for Advanced Buddhist Studies in
Tibetan Language, Beijing, China, September
1997
- Chief Patron of the
National Health Education Society of India,
Mumbai, India
- Indian Traditional
Order of Pandit, Indian Council of Natural
Medicine and Research, Bombay, India 30 Nov.
'97
- Award of
Appreciation, Zoroastrian College, Bombay,
India, 30. Nov. '97
- International
Advisor of the World Association of
Integrated Medicines, Varanasi, India, Nov.
1997
- Mahavajracarya of
the universal Life Buddhist Association,
Boston, USA, 7th Dec. 1997
- International
Felicitation by the Indian Institute of
Ecology and Environment, Dr Zakir Husain
Institute for Non-Formal and Continuing
Education, International Association of
Educators for World Peace, 23rd December
1997.
1998
- Certificate of
Excellence of the Ancient Royal Assyrian
Order of Merit, Kathmandu, Nepal, February
1998.
- Certificate of
Appointment as Honorary Chancellor Emeritus
of the Open International University for
Alternative Medicines of Calcutta, India,
27th February 1998.
- Certificate of
Appointment as National Chancellor for Italy
of the International Association of
Educators for World Peace (NGO affiliated to
the United Nations with ECOSOC, UNDPI,
UNICEF, UNESCO, UNCED), Kathmandu, Nepal,
February 26th 1998.
- Honorary member of
the University Association of Yoga Masters,
Scientific European Union of Yoga Masters,
Madrid, Spain, February 1998
- Patron and Honorary
advisor of the National Foundation of
Holistic Health Sciences, Khulna,
Bangladesh, April 1998
- Honorary President
of R.O.C. Dha Jin-Buddhist Headquarter,
Taiwan, May 1st 1998
- Trustee and
Executive Board member, "Sleeping
Elephant Trust", New York, Sept. 98
- Founder and
President Emeritus of The Global Open
University for World Peace, Milan and Bagni
di Lucca, Italy June 5th 1998
- "Certificate of
Participation" 1st World Congress on
Health and Urban Environment, Madrid, Spain,
July 6-10, '98
- "Fountain of
Universal Peace Award", IAEWP, Sao
Paulo, Brazil, Aug. 5th '98
- "World Peace
Recognition" World Peace Academy, Sao
Paulo, Brazil, Aug. 5th '98
- "Certificate of
Participation" 9th World Congress of
IAEWP, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Aug. 3-8 '98
- "Albert
Einstein Award", International
Association of Educators for World Peace,
Rio de Janeiro, August 8th 1998.
- UN Plenipotentiary
Envoy for IAEWP, 1998
- Executive Board of
Directors for IAEWP, 1998
- Felicitation by the
Lion's Club of Tainan, Taiwan, Sept.7th '98
- "Premio Cycrus
'98 per la Pace" Ass. Culturale New
Age, Casino Municipale Sanremo, Italy, Sept.
25th '98
- "Honorary
Member", Ass. Culturale New Age,
Casino Municipale Sanremo, Italy, Sept. 25th
'98.
- Academician, World
Peace Academy, IAEWP, UK, 26 Sept. '98
- Doctor of
Philosophy, International Academy of Culture
and Political Sciences, USA, 26 Sept '98
- Member of the
Multifaith, Multicultural Mediation Service,
London, England, 07/10/98
- Honorary member of
Academia Ecologica, Iasi, Romania, 12 Oct
'98
- Certificate of
Honor, Institute of International Affairs,
Paris, France, 18 Oct. 1998
- Recognition from the
Lion's Club of Macerata, Italy, 27th Oct.
'98
- Certificate of the
Canadian College of Acupuncture Science,
Karachi, Pakistan, Nov. 1 '98
- Bureau Chief of
Holistic Medical Highlights of Al-Shifa
Institute of Alternative and Complementary
Medicines, Lahore, Pakistan, Sept. 98
- Lifelong Member of
the European Medical Association, UK, '98
1999
- G51 Millennium
Award, World Peace Council for the Third
Millennium, India, Kathmandu, Nepal, 19th
Feb. 1999
- International
certificate of Honor, IAEWP, Brussels,
Belgium, 26 Feb. '99
- Founder &
Chairman of the Himalayan International
University of Yoga and Naturopathy,
Kathmandu, Nepal, March 2nd 1999
- Honorary Ecumenical
Fellowship, St Fancis Animal Apostolate,
International Council of Community Churches,
Namur, Belgium, 2 March '99
- Patron of the World
Hindu-Buddhist Solidarity Council,
Kathmandu, Nepal, 10/03/99
- Founder of the
Himalayan Broadcasting Network- Peace Radio,
Himalayan Healing Center, Kathmandu, Nepal,
1999
- Recognition of the
Rotary Club of Colli Briallianti, Lecco,
Italy, March 16th 1999
- Earth Trust Society
Award, United Nations, New York, USA, March
20th 1999
- Representative of
IAEWP to the United Nations in Geneva for
1999
- Doctor Honoris Causa
in Natropathy, University Libre des Sciences
de l'Homme de Paris, Paris, France 1 April
1999
- Honorary Chancellor
and Member of the Academic Council,
University Libre des Sciences de l'Homme de
Paris, Paris, France 1 April 1999
- Honorary Member of
the Comision de Educacion a Distancia,
Madrid, Spain April 12 1999
- Honorary Citizenship
and Key to the City of Loano - twin town to
Franchville, Loano, Italy, 24 April '99
- Dhammaraja, from the
National Chapter of IAEWP of Russia, Greece,
Tanzania, Japan, Canada, May 2nd & 3rd,
1999.
- Honorary Advisor of
the Spanish Association of Professionals
Workers Health and Environment, Madrid,
Spain, May 5th 1999.
- Ambassador of Peace,
International Association of Educators for
World Peace, May 7th Madrid Spain
- Honorary Professor
of Journalism and Communication, Int.
Academy of Culture and Political Science,
Milan, Italy, May 5th 1999
- UN News, Diploma of
Scholarship, Korea, May 5th 1998
- Doctor of
Philosophy, Institute for International
Communication, Tver, Russia, May 6th 1999
- Doctor of Philosophy
(Honoris Causa in Peace Education), Academy
of Slavonic Culture, May 8th 1999, Tver,
Russia
- World Environment
and Livelihood Award, Indian Institute of
Ecology and Environment, Delhi, India, May
9th 1999
- IAEWP Gold Medal, at
LGWPF Congress, Madrid, Spain, May 9th 1999
- Highest Honor of the
Open Intercultural University, Opeinde,
Holland, May 1999
- Albert Einstein
Peace Medal, Albert Einstein Academy, New
York, September 1999
- Cycnus Award 1999,
San Remo, Italy Oct. 8 1999
- Honorary Advisor of
Nepal Institute for United Nations and
UNESCO, Nov. 99
2000
- World Education
Award, World Education Festival - San Remo,
Italy, May 4th 2000
- Honorary President
of European Union University, Iowa, USA, May
6 2000
- Messenger of Peace
Award, Nepal Institute for United Nations
and Unesco
- Patron, National
Buddhist Federation, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Peace Medal,
International Association of Educators for
World Peace-IAEWP
- Man of Year Award,
IAEWP
- Mahatma Ghandi Peace
Prize, IAEWP
- World Peace Envoy,
IAEWP
- Chief Patron of the
Indian Institute of Human Rights supported
by the United Nations High Commission for
Refugees, India
FOUNDER:
- Lama Gangchen World
Peace Foundation, United Nations Affiliated
NGO
- Kunpen Lama
Gangchen, Head Office, Milan, Italy
- Over 100
Self-Healing Peace Study centers worldwide
- Himalayan Healing
Center, Kathmandu, Nepal
- South East Asia
Principal Health and Peace Prayer Center,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Lama Gangchen Peace
Publications, L.G.P.P., Milan, Italy
- Radio Atlanta, Peace
Radio, Milan, Italy
- Tibetan Medical
Research Center, Madrid, Spain
- Global Open
University, India, Italy
- Lama Gangchen
International Foundation, Delhi, India
- Lama Gangchen
World Peace Services, Milan, Italy
- Global Village
Project, Bagni di Lucca, Italy
- Ass. L.G. pour la
Paix Interieure et la paix Mondial, Paris,
France
- Help in Action,
Adoptions at a distance, Milan, Italy
- Himalayan Amazon
Healing Arts Association, Brazil, 1996
- Lama Gangchen
International Foundation, New York, USA
- International Global
Peace Association, Holland, 1996
- Lama Gangchen Peace
Editions, Germany, 1995
- Buddha Institute of
Technology, Delhi, India, 1996
- Environment News and
Features News Agency, Delhi, India, 1996
- Son de Paz -
Magazine Association, Madrid, Spain ?
- Courtesy Printers,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Uddhyana Research
Center, Swat Valley, Pakistan, and Italy,
Dec. 1996
- Writers Society,
Milan, Italy
- Public Relations and
Exhibition Programs
- Borobudur Research
Center
- East West Cultural
Arts Exchange Group, Milan, Italy
- East West Healing
Arts Development
- Dharma Handicraft
Shop
- Tibetan Kitchen
Catering Service, Milan, Italy
- United Peace Voice
Company, Italy, Brazil
- Thangka and Tsatsa
Arts Development, Italy
- World Peace Culture
Center, Lugano, Switzerland, 1997
- Research Institute
for Natural Medicines, Switzerland, 1997
- Global Peace
University, Holland, April 29th 1997
- Himalayan Tibetan
Medicine Production, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Peace Times, Good
News for the World, Milan, Italy, 1996
- Medicine Buddha
Hospital, Kataragam, Sri Lanka
- School and
Dispensary near Shigatse, Tibet/China
- Nubling Tibetan Men
Tse Khang, Milan, Italy, Jan, 1997
- Reconstructed
Gangchen Monastery
- Himalayan Peace
Network - Peace Radio at the Himalayan
Healing Center, Nepal.
(last revision: Aug 2001)
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The Inner and the Outer Culture of
Peace:
Transforming the world for the betterment of humanity
International Conference on a Culture of Peace
King Juan Carlos University, Madrid-Spain
11-13 December 2000
Lecture delivered by His Holiness Lama Gangchen
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Let us first invoke ‘peace’ with a minute of silence.
Let us use this moment of silence to link into the deepest
statements of peace: our own inner peace.
(SILENCE)
My friends:
The Great Paradox
The greatest paradox facing humanity today - and this gathering in
particular - is the fact that while we are here to promote “the
culture of peace”, we are at the same time experiencing major
wars and conflicts in today’s world. Just think about Africa and
the Middle East.
I see myself around this table surrounded by souls who are
“converted”, who are seekers of peace, or who understand the
real importance of a peaceful world, rather than a world in a
state of conflict.
It seems that the choice we have is a simple one: we all want to
live at peace and in peace.
Yes, all of us belong to this club that groups together those who
are already converted.
With your permission, I would like to take this opportunity and my
intervention as a vehicle and as a conduit to reach:
- the hearts and souls of those who, in
practice, do not believe in peace; those that are not at peace
with themselves;
- the hearts and souls of those who are
the major promoters of conflicts through partisan politics,
selling and buying weapons, covering up major realities of
human existence in the name of democracy, religion, and
ethnicity; and
- the hearts and souls of those who are
denying that conflict is the major disease affecting humanity
today.My friends:
I want to reach those millions of children
who are in combat today and who have become heads of household
because of the death of their parents.
I want to reach those innocent lives lost as casualties in so many
conflicts in this world.
I want to speak to those who are at the negotiation table taking
‘grand stands’ in the name of winning the war rather than of
establishing everlasting peace.
They are not here, although they should be here, and share their
personal testimony. But, we all know that they are either the
architects of conflict and war, or, clearly, they are the victims
of major destruction. Simply said, right now, they are at war
somewhere else in the world.
They are the ones who need our peace energy, our peace hearts, ad
our peace souls.
The Culture of Peace
The culture of peace, if ever applied in practice, is the most
revolutionary paradigm that humanity has ever put forth on the
table of each and every household in the world.
A paradigm that touches the rich and the poor, the north and the
south, the developed and developing countries, all different races
and communities in the world, governments, private sector, NGOs,
and so on. The key to this revolution is a fundamental change in
the existing value system so dominated by economics, excessive
consumption, exclusion and marginalisation. All of these are
happening in a world that globalises so rapidly, and sees that
poverty is increasing at an ever high rate.
The culture of peace is not a title, or another theoretical
proposition, but a totally new way of life on this planet.
A planet that is getting smaller and smaller, as billions of
people search for co-existence and betterment.
The culture of peace is, and should be, the foundation of
everything we do.
From economics and finance to equality and an acceptable form of
distribution of productive assets. From social imperatives in our
societies to cultural and institutional sustainability. From the
human dimensions of progress and change to the moral and ethical
dimensions of life and our human existence.
It is the culture of peace that provides the substantive elements
to close the existing gap of a notion of economic development that
is practised today within a major ethical and moral vacuum.
But we seem to be far from having adopted this culture of peace.
We seem to talk about it rather than to identify the true
transformational instruments and actions that will actually
provoke the changes we are all looking for.
Three fundamental steps
The way forward requires three fundamental steps.
The first fundamental step is the basic distinction between our
outer peace and inner peace.
Most of what humanity and leadership is doing to attain some
acceptable level of peace is to grab the elements of outer peace.
What looks like a world without conflict. Physical conflict, I
must say. But the absence of conflict is NOT tantamount of a state
of peace. Lack of physical conflict is simply “the lack of
physical conflict”.
And in doing so, we are using more sophisticated weapons of mass
destruction, so some can neutralise others who are prepared to
create more conflict. This happens within countries, between
countries and all over the world. Thus, instead of addressing
crime, we train more police officers, we expand the space under
the prison system, so we can keep more and more people inside
those facilities; we create an industry of alarm systems and
anti-alarm systems that is now in the trillions of dollars,...,
all in the name of outer peace. All in the name of maintaining a
world without apparent conflicts.
We have seldom gone beyond the management of physical conflict,
despite the fact that we know that there are so many other forms
of conflict. These remain totally unattended. Of course, the
results are clear: very high suicide rates in teenagers, increased
trafficking and prostitution of young girls, of highly illegal
drug, ad so on.
Peace, on the other hand, is a state of consciousness. An inner
state in each of us, with individual and social connotations.
We simply cannot buy peace. There is no supermarkets for peace.
There is no level of material wealth that will be capable of
buying everlasting peace either for a person or for a nation.
Therefore, if any progress is to be made in the practice and
materialisation of a culture of peace, we must focus on its inner
values, its inner dimensions, and its inner realities rather than
on its outer elements.
This approach will demand a different discourse, a different
attitude, a different system of education, a different way of
facing life in all its dimensions within this planet.
The second fundamental step is to recognise the importance of what
I call the “presence factor”.
Many of our meetings and many of our institutions are filled with
people who advocate and promote peace, but who are not at peace
within themselves.
Many people have never experienced the state of inner peace. As
long as you have not done so, everything tends to stay in a state
of abstraction. We simply cannot promote that which we do not know
what it is.
How can we allow those who are not at peace with themselves to sit
at the table to negotiate a peace treaty? How can we trust
architects who are in deep inner conflict to construct a world of
peace?
This is an element we must understand and strive for in the next
few years. This is particularly the case in children who have been
taught how to kill through the media, films and toys. Our children
have been trained to take the life of another human being.
Yes, the future leaders of the world, some, who should have been
here today, may become the most effective machines of destruction.
This is simply not acceptable.
This presence factor also applies to our teachers, our political
and spiritual leaders, and to everyone who is in an influential
position.
We must take massive steps to assist and contribute to the peace
of those who are making decisions that affect each and everyone of
us. We must get closer to them now. We must approach them with
huge respect and compassion, but with a firm and unequivocal
message that peace is the objective and not just the elimination
of conflict.
The third fundamental step is to bring in action.
Peace must be an intrinsic element of all we do. We must have
peace in ourselves and among ourselves. We must have peace with
all of the elements and constituents of nature. We must have peace
within every institution and organisation, as a coherence factor
as well as a performance factor. We must have peace with all
religions, with all ethnic groups, with all possible communities
of interest.
This is a step we all feel comfortable with, although it has
proven to be the most difficult one to attain in practice.
Peace in action means peace in every step of the way of our
existence. Peaceful thoughts. Peaceful actions. Peaceful goals and
commitments. Peaceful instruments. Peaceful forms of exchange.
Peaceful politics. Peaceful business. And so on.
Our public commitment
My friends:
This cannot be just another meeting. This cannot become just yet
another self-congratulatory event. This cannot be the platform of
speeches that have no transformational implications or that remain
in one book of proceedings for historians to decide if we made it
or not.
This meeting must be the new beginning of a massive concerted
effort to transform the world into a world of peace, once and for
all.
My personal commitment is to go out of this door with my heart and
soul full of that peaceful light and that peaceful energy that
will be able to transform everyone I see, everyone I touch,
everyone I think of. My personal commitment is to go out of this
room and create the level of awareness that this problem deserves
before more people get killed on the streets of so many cities in
the world. My personal commitment is to heal those who have been
affected by war and conflict and those whose wounds go far beyond
the physical body.
But what is our collective commitment?
What actions are we planning to take here and now so the impacts
of our existence touches every corner of the world?
In this regard, I would like to propose only one simple idea: the
opening of the international bilateral or multilateral dialogues -
anywhere they happen - into a debate that takes due account of
human, spiritual, cultural, ethical and moral values.
We have gone too far in promoting material welfare. It is time we
promoted spiritual welfare.
In practical terms, I have called this idea the creation of a
Spiritual Forum in every instance of public policy making. This is
practical and do-able, if we are in the vein of transformational
change, and if we would like to reach far beyond political or
allegorical declarations.
Let is stand up for peace.
The choice is really ours.
Thank you very much.
T.Y.S. Lama Gangchen
(last revision:
Aug 2001)
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