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  • How Glastonbury Reacted To The Dalai Lama.

    They say that nobody is as big as Glastonbury. Not Mick Jagger, not Kanye West, not even Lionel Ritchie can compete with the 5-day celebration of life, music, freedom and creativity that is Glastonbury Festival. Would the Dalai Lama be any different? Would he be …

  • The Future of Compassion

    Reflections on Dr Thupten Jinpa’s June 18th talk for the DLCC. It was with great pleasure that the Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion hosted Dr Thupten Jinpa last month to speak about his most recent book A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate …

  • The Dalai Lama Wins Hearts and Minds at Glastonbury

    A report from Glastonbury Festival by Communications intern, Issie Lakin (Year 10, Alcester Academy). The morning of Sunday the 28th of June at Glastonbury music festival was quiet, with a sense of mystery in the air as rumours whispered through the tents and anticipation heightened. …

  • Comparative Moral Philosophy

    A Reflection on Imam Ibrahim Amin’s Talk for the DLCC. The Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion has recently been fortunate to host Imam Ibrahim Amin for a seminar on understandings of compassion in the Islamic tradition, at which he was joined by a number of …

  • Journey Into Compassion

      The exams are coming to a close and students are looking forward to summer here in Oxford. Our intrepid intern, Caroline Ivimey-Parr has just got back from holidays in India, so we asked her to reflect on how we might remain compassionate whilst travelling in …

  • Compassion and the Legacy of Solidarity

    A reflection on the international seminar “The Treasure of Solidarity: Lessons for Europe”. This month representatives from the DLCC were invited to Brussels to attend an international seminar on the legacy of the great Polish working-class revolution of the 1980s - Solidarność. Gathered in the …

  • Is the Internet Making Us Less Compassionate?

    In a recent TED talk, Monica Lewinsky expressed the view that the internet might be making us less compassionate. Lewinsky explains how she was one of the first people to be trolled en masse by a nascent internet. Her 18-minute talk, entitled “The Price of …

  • Human Nature

    Since classical antiquity the idea of human nature has played a central role in our understanding of ourselves and of our place in the world, providing the source of norms of conduct, as well as presenting a categorical framework for living a good, and fulfilled …

  • Compassion at the Interface of Self and Other

    Any writer is familiar with the feeling of spending so long looking at a word on the page that it appears to be spelled incorrectly, even though they know it to be correct. Sartre describes the sensation of looking at your hand and it no longer appears to be the … Continue reading →

  • New Years Resolutions: A Student’s Guide

    January is the time for hastily made, easily broken New Years resolutions. Perhaps in the depths of a New Years Day hangover you resolved to stop drinking, or after trying for over five minutes to squeeze into your old skinny jeans that fit perfectly in November, you resolved to eat … Continue reading →

  • A Christmas Message From The Dalai Lama Centre For Compassion

    In the run up to this Christmas, with the shopping mania intensifying, there seemed to be a greater emphasis than ever on the materialistic (since when was Black Friday a UK thing?), while at the same time many of my friends and family have never felt more lacklustre at the … Continue reading →

  • FROM THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR

    In his best-selling manifesto for a more compassionate society, ETHICS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM, the Dalai Lama makes a startling claim. He says that, fundamentally, human nature is compassionate. In support of this claim, the Dalai Lama points out that increasing numbers of scientific studies provide compelling evidence to support … Continue reading →