Exciting news for fans of the Tibetan National Football Men’s team! The team is set to participate in the upcoming CONIFA Asia Cup 2023 in The Hague, Netherlands. This tournament is a significant milestone for both the team and the Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA), as it marks the first-ever CONFIFA Asia Cup.
The tournament will feature six teams, including the Tibetan NSA in Group 1 alongside FA West Papua and Tamil Ealem FA, and Group B consisting of East Turkistan FA, Kashmir FA, and Punjab FA. This is an excellent opportunity for the Tibetan National Football team to showcase their skills and compete against other teams in the region.
The tournament is scheduled to take place from 3 August to 6 August 2023, and fans of the team are eagerly looking forward to the games. It’s a chance for the team to gain valuable experience and demonstrate their commitment to the sport. We wish the Tibetan National Football Men’s team all the best for the tournament and hope they can make their fans proud!
The CONIFA ASIA CUP LOGO
The famous Buddhist mantra ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུཾ། OM MANI PADME HUM is a powerful and revered mantra in Tibetan Buddhism. It is often recited during meditation or as a prayer in order to invoke the blessings and compassion of Chenrezig, the Lord Avalokiteshvara, who is the embodiment of compassion in Tibetan Buddhism.
The mantra is composed of six syllables, each with a specific meaning. “OM” is the combination of three letters- A, U & M- representing the body, speech, and mind of Buddha. “Mani” is the Jewel representing the bodhicitta, which is the altruistic intention to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings. “Padme” is the Lotus representing the wisdom of emptiness, which is a profound understanding of the true nature of reality. “HUM” is the blessings invoked to obtain the body, speech, and mind of Buddha through the proper practices of the combination of bodhicitta and wisdom of emptiness.
Chanting the mantra is believed to purify negative karma, promote inner peace and compassion, and help one progress on the path to enlightenment. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, who is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and a revered figure worldwide, is considered to be an embodiment of Chenrezig and often recites the mantra during his teachings and public appearances.
Overall, OM MANI PADME HUM is a powerful and meaningful mantra that carries profound spiritual significance in Tibetan Buddhism.
བོད་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་རྩེད་རིགས་ཚོགས་པ་ནི་ཀོ་ནི་ཧྥའི་ཚོགས་འཐུས་ཤིག་ཡིན། ཀོ་ནི་ཧྥས་བོད་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་རྩེད་རིགས་ཚོགས་པའི་འགན་འཛིན་བསྟན་འཛིན་རིན་ཆེན་ལགས་ཨེ་ཤི་ཡ་ཀོ་ནི་ཧྥའི་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་འཐུས་མིར་བདམས་ཐོན་གནང་འདུག།
ཀོ་ནི་ཧྥ་ལ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་ཞུ་བཞིན་ཡོད།
We’re excited to announce that the Tibetan National Sports Association (TNSA) is an active member of CONIFA, and their executive director, Tenzin Rinchen, has been selected as a member of the CONIFA Asian committee. This is a huge honor for the TNSA and a testament to their commitment to promoting Tibetan sports and culture. We wish Tenzin and the TNSA all the best as they continue to represent Tibet on the global stage.
