His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa to Undertake Sri Lankan Pad Yatra for Environment Consciousness

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His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa to

Undertake Sri Lankan Pad Yatra for

Environment Consciousness

PR Newswire

NEW DELHI, June 5, 2012

NEW DELHI

,

June 5, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

Another Guinness Record Breaking Environment Initiative to be

Organised in Ladakh

Live to Love, the humanitarian organisation founded by

India

-born spiritual

guru, His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa, today reaffirmed its commitment

towards the environment. On the occasion of World Environment Day today,

Live to Love country outfits across the globe -

Bhutan

,

France

,

Germany

,

Malaysia

,

Mexico

,

Nepal

,

Peru

,

Poland

,

Singapore

,

Spain

,

Switzerland

,

Taiwan

,

Vietnam

, UK, and

USA

- joined hands with

India

to organise various

environment-related activities including tree plantation, cleanliness drive,

spreading the message about eco-friendliness, etc.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20111228/503947 )

Young Drukpa Association (YDA) of Ladakh in collaboration with Live to Love

International also observed World Environment Day at Hemis Monastery,

Ladakh. As part of the activities, His Eminence Kyabje Drukpa Choegon

Rinpoche Tenzin Chokyi Gyatso will give a talk on the importance of living an

eco-friendly life. In addition, to put the environmental initiative into action, a

clean-up drive by 700 monastics and lay volunteers within 10km radius of

Hemis Monastery was also undertaken. This was followed by screening a film

on climate change.

Live to Love announced the schedule of its next Pad Yatra to the extremely

beautiful and refreshing island country of

Sri Lanka

. The Pad Yatra is scheduled

to start from

Colombo

in

Sri Lanka

on 10

th

December 2012

, and will spread the

message of love, commitment and responsibility towards the environment. This

would be the 6

th

Pad Yatra by His Holiness as part of his initiative towards

protection and preservation of the environment. More details about the Pad

Yatra can be obtained from www.walking.drukpa.com.

Live to Love also took the opportunity to announce its next environment

initiative. In an effort to draw further attention towards creating sustainable

activities, Live to Love, under the stewardship of His Holiness the Gyalwang

Drukpa, will undertake another massive tree plantation drive in the extremely

harsh climatic region of Ladakh on 29

th

October 2012

. They will undertake to

break their own Guinness record of planting over a million trees set by the

organisation in

October 2010

.

Towards the end of June, the world renowned Hemis Festival will also be jointly

organised by the Drukpa Lineage and Live to Love at Ladakh,

India

, which is the

biggest Buddhist festival in the region and a designated public holiday in

Ladakh.

Notes to Editors:

The

India

-born Buddhist spiritual guru, His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa is an

active proponent of peace and harmony through putting compassion and love

into action through his not-for-profit international humanitarian organisation

Live to Love (www.livetolove.org). He is most lauded for promoting gender

equality and awareness in environmental issues. He is the United Nations

Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Award recipient and Green Hero of

India

.

He has led Ladakh in breaking the Guinness World Record for "Most Trees

Planted" category on

10th October 2010

.

His Holiness's mission is to promote universal harmony and inner peace by

integrating the spiritual tenets of love and appreciation into daily life. His core

philosophy is to convert compassion into action and provide concrete solutions

for today's problems.

His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa is the head of Drukpa Order of Buddhism

based in the Himalayas, founded 1000 years ago by the great Indian saint

Naropa.

Website: http://live2love.org/index.php/en/about-us

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiveToLoveInternational

Twitter: @Drukpa

Primary Media Contact: Shreeya Roy, [e-mail], 91-

9350335761