National News- 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, addresses students and faculty of Ambedkar University Delhi

Dharamsala, October 4, 2013: During  his first major visit to a university in India, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, addressed students and faculty of the Ambedkar University Delhi on Thursday on topics relating to emotional wellbeing. Karmapa also extended dialogue with MPhil students from a number of departments.
He said, “When we cease to see ourselves as separate, we do not disappear, but rather we see ourselves as part of others.”
“Compassionate action must not be treated as a business,” the Karmapa told the student. “Rather, it can be seen as a creative, rather than a commercial, undertaking. Our compassion can be something that beautifies the world, rather than something we do in hopes of gaining something for ourselves.”
The secretary of Karmapa, Kunzang Chungyalpa said in Dharamsala the home of the Lama that, Karmapa’s address was delivered at the invitation of the Department of Psychology, with students from the development practices, education, human ecology, psychology and sociology departments also participating. Professor Dr. Honey Oberoi Vahali, Dean of the School of Human Studies, commented that the interaction with the Karmapa was the most lively she had ever seen in that hall.
At the conclusion of the event, Vice Chancellor Professor Shyam B. Menon commented that beneath the Karmapa’s “veneer of youth, light-heartedness and candour was profundity and depth.”