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Dalai Lama lays stone for ethics & values hub
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama laid the foundation stone for the new South Asian hub of \'Dalai Lama Centre for Ethics and Transformative Values’ at Hitec City here on Sunday in the presence of Governor ESL Narasimhan, Deputy Chief Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali and IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao.
Hyderabad: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama laid the foundation stone for the new South Asian hub of 'Dalai Lama Centre for Ethics and Transformative Values’ at Hitec City here on Sunday in the presence of Governor ESL Narasimhan, Deputy Chief Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali and IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao.
The South Asia hub is coming up on five acres of land allotted by the state government. The state government has also announced Rs 5 crore for the centre and promised to extend all necessary support for the centre which is aimed at spreading ethics, values and message among people.
In his address, the spiritual leader expressed happiness to see the plans for establishment of the centre.
“Promotion of ethics and values have never been more important in our world,” he said and added that he was delighted to see this effort taking root in India, a country he deeply admired for its longstanding tradition of ‘ahmisa and karuna’.
Ever since its inception in 2009, the centre has been a driving force in fostering individual and organisational ethics and value-driven leadership across diverse institutional frameworks.
Leaders from eight countries across North and Latin America, South Asia and Central Africa have participated in the centre’s ethics and values based transformative leadership programme.
Over a thousand public school educators have been trained through this programme. The centre, he said, is dedicated to inquiry, dialogue and education on the ethical and humane dimensions of life.
It will focus on development of inter-disciplinary research and programmes in varied fields of knowledge from science and technology to education and international relations.
Expressing his happiness that the spiritual leader had chosen Hyderabad to set up the centre, KTR said that in the light of rapid transformations impacting India and the whole region, there is urgent need to prepare present and future leaders for the work of serving their communities.
The centre’s founding president and CEO Tenzin Priyadarshi said he was excited to launch the South Asia Hub as a strategic site for designing and disseminating programmes.
“An open and dependable infrastructure is key to support this mission on a global scale. Hyderabad is vibrant city which balances its rich past with its promising future,” he added.
About 2,000 persons turned up for the programme while several thousand others joined the web cast from all over the world.
