地點：印度 上密院 Gyuto, Dharamsala
時間：2009年04月20日 April 20, 2009
報導：Tashi Paljor
攝影：Tashi Paljor

4月20日，下午2:30，法王噶瑪巴於法王會客室裡，召集所有上密院的楚布辦公室工作人員。法王針對環保意識以及人類所造成的生態失衡問題給予簡短的開示。

法王提出了許多環保的方法。其中一個簡單的方法即是時常思維，我們每天所使用的產品，想一想它們的製作過程，有多少的能量被我們浪費消耗掉，評估一下，然後選擇使用更具環保的產品。

法王說到，保護環境是一位真正的佛教弟子對利益整體生態的實際作為。

At 2:30pm His Holiness gathered all the Tsurphu Labrang (Karmapa’s Office of Administration) staff members, those working Gyuto, to his audience chamber. His Holiness gave a brief introduction about environmental consciousness and how humans have created problems to upset the natural balance of the environment.

His Holiness explained that there are many ways to protect the environment. One simple manner of conduct is for us to contemplate the origin of products that we use daily, tracing back how it was made. Products we use start from a raw material source, and energy is consumed to get it to your table. We should consider that we can choose products and use products that are eco-friendly. Tracing the origins of products is one of the many methods that His Holiness introduced.

His Holiness also conveyed that the protection of the environment is truly a Buddhist act as it benefits the whole ecosystem.