On Sunday 7th September I was present at a well attended Interfaith Gathering, at the Baitul Awwal Masjied, hosted by Lajna Ima’illah South Africa, Ahmadiyya Women’s Association, whose primary focus is on the education and spiritual enlightenment of women and girls.
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Reflections on Welcome: Boundless Compassion with Mingyur Rinpoche
By James Guebert
I attended the Boundless Compassion evening hosted by Mingyur Rinpoche as a volunteer to help the CTII students practice their skits and, like all attendees, to witness and participate in a beautiful interfaith space designed to bring people together and foster peace in Cape Town.
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ACWAY: Zahra’s reflections
ACWAY – A Common Word Amongst Youth – is the youth organization that organized the Youth Forum of the G20IF, partnering with URI and the Charter for Compassion. This blog is Zahra Jobe’s reflection of the week of the G20IF. Here are some photos of at the Youth Forum.
The URI youth attendees – which included Ana, Zahra, Golden and Nur Jehaan from CTII, and Ghakeemah and Takunda from Faith Hope Love Communities.
The CTII Community Choir – Boundless Compassion with Mingyur Rinpoche
The CTII Community Choir has given its first public performance as part of the exciting “Boundless Compassion” event. Held at St. Georges Cathedral in Cape Town South Africa, the event is a part of Tibetan mediation master Mingyur Rinpoche‘s first visit to our country and continent.
Boundless Compassion with Mingyur Rinpoche: Cecil’s view
Last night (Thursday 28th August) was such an awesome interfaith event. Thank you to Alex (Kunkhyen), the Boundless Compassion team and all who helped to make it the success it was.
Thank you to Zebada for representing the indigenous people of this country so well. Rinpoche certainly connected with Ubuntu, the African version of Dependent Origination. Tibetans are also indigenous people, who are resisting erasure from a dominant colonial power.
The same goes for the representatives from the Nguni spirituality. Tibetan Buddhism is a mix of Himalayan Shamanism and Indian Buddhism.
Thank you Nima for holding the intrafaith space. You handled it with poise and grace.
Aydin does not speak much, but beautifully connected Boundless Compassion from a Muslim perspective with that of Buddhism. The Buddhist-Muslim dialogue is important. It already happens in places like Malaysia. South African Islam had it roots in a country where Buddhist, Hindu and Animist spirituality formed the ground.
Thank you to Rabbi Andi for holding the space for the Jewish-Buddhist connection in her own gentle way.
Many thanks to all the faith leaders and other representatives who came in support of this momentous interfaith event
The choir was on fire! The dedication and your hours of practice, showed. This is one of the best vehicles to promote CTII and our interfaith activities.
Where else, but in Cape Town can you find a Muslim father singing in a choir with his Buddhist son!
I am so proud of the youth from our schools programme. Thanks Pippa. Thank you to all the facilitators, teachers and elders who made it possible. There was nervousness – it was a big occasion in the bastion of interfaith activity, but you all came out on top. Well done to the CTII Youth!
Last but certainly not the least, thank you to Mingyur Rinpoche for gracing our shores with your presence. It is a privilege to have you here. The Dharma will expand, because of you being here.
I really enjoyed the chanting of the Om Mani.
I hope that by now, someone made Rinpoche some mielie pap. I got the sense that he wants another food example to use in his explanations of Buddhism. Something other than his usual, pizza stories. 😁
I wasn’t there last night , but I enjoyed the event on screen and I look forward to meeting Rinpoche in person next week.
