STATEMENT FROM HIS HOLINESS THE 17TH KARMAPA
OGYEN TRINLEY DORJE, ON TIGER PROTECTION
IN THE YEAR OF THE TIGER
February 14th, 2010 Varanasi, India
Buddhism teaches equanimity. We have to show compassion to all sentient beings. All life is equally sacred. Lord Buddha himself in a previous life gave his body to feed a hungry tigress.
Some people have said to me that tigers are a dangerous species and the world would be better off without them, but we need to think carefully. We know the importance of trees and of forests. Within the forest ecosystem there are natural protectors, and the tiger is one of them. You could call the tiger one of the forest's police force. We know from recent reports that there may be as few as 3200 tigers left in the wild in all of Asia. It is no longer a matter of protecting them; we urgently need to save them from extinction now.
When we consider things deeply, we realize tha
t human beings are far more dangerous than tigers, in terms of the harm they have done to the earth, its environment, and to each other throughout human history.
In the start of this new year, the Year of the Tiger, I request all of you to avoid eating, using or wearing any products that may contain tiger parts and to do what you can to prevent illegal wildlife trade from happening.
Losar Tashi Delek! Enjoy the Year of the Tiger.
- Click here for pdf of Statement in English: HHStatementTigers
- Click here for pdf of Statement in Tibetan: ChagTagLo
- Click here for pdf of Statement in Chinese: Statement Chinese_original_order
ཐུགས་སྙིང་རྗེའི་ཆུ་གཏེར་ཆེན་པོ་ལས།
བཟོད་མེད་ཀྱི་མཛད་བཟང་དལ་ཞིང་གཡོ།
འགྲོ་ཀུན་ལ་བྱམས་པའི་གུ་རུ་རྗེ།
རྗེ་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་དགོངས་ཡོངས་འགྲུབ་ཤོག།
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100126-tigers-greater-mekong-video/
https://secure2.convio.net/wwf/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=353&AddInterest
please sign this petition, if you haven’t already done … thank you !
enjoy the video …
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/buddhist-tigers-video.html
“Be kind to us.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MGApw-Zz_8&feature=related
Please help the tigers by signing the petition …
http://www.wcs.org/tigers/
Thank you!
Highest living tigers found …
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11368475?ls
In the year of the tiger, see specifically photos 17 & 25 …
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/09/animals_in_the_news_1.html
“A Last Stand for Tigers?” …
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/09/a-last-stand-for-tigers.html
Also, a selection of photos of helpers from WWF working together with local authorities to stop poachers from killing the last Amur tigers that live in East Russia …
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-59343.html
World Tiger Day on Sept. 27, 2010 …
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/09/world-tiger-day-2010.html
http://www.bornfree.org.uk/kids-go-wild/film-clips/
See esp. the video “Circus animals” that is under the first clip.
Wonderful thanks to the Born Free Foundation and
to His Holiness Gyalwa Karmapa for His presence and His prayers.
Gaby in Munich
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/34-more-wild-tigers-found-in-nepal.html
Another report and video that tells us: “There is no time to lose.”
http://www.bornfree.org.uk/animals/tigers/projects/satpuda/
Enjoy the National Geographic photo gallery of tigers …
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/photos/tigers/#/tiger-grass_738_600x450.jpg
http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/tigers-can-be-saved-video/
What joy! Six new tiger cubs
- 3 from the Siberian-Amur group and 3 from the Malayan family -
were born at the Bronx Zoo in N.Y. May our prayers reach out to them and they have a very, very good life! See also “more videos” in this link:
http://www.bronxzoo.com/multimedia/videos/amur-tiger-cubs.aspx
“Urgent U.S. action needed to save the tigers.” Please sign the petition if possible.
https://secure2.convio.net/wwf/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=395&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr004=pkq4k6unt2.app228b
Thank you!
Thanks to India and the children …
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101006/jsp/northeast/story_13020914.jsp
An update from Oct. 21, 2010, “Tigers Among Us” …
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/10/americas-5000-backyard-tigers.html
What can we do?