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Since ancient time, Buddhism has a significant role in maritime trade. Mariners, traders and sailors pray to Buddhas as their saviour during distress conditions at sea. Both Buddha Avalokiteshvara...
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Since ancient time, Buddhism has a significant role in maritime trade. Mariners, traders and sailors pray to Buddhas as their saviour during distress conditions at sea. Both Buddha Avalokiteshvara...
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Dear friends around the world, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been ill and is manifesting illness more and more of late. A highly attained being like His Holiness will manifest sickness to remind us of impermanence. So it is important for us to generate merits and dedicate these merits to His Holin...
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Choyang Dulzin Kuten Lama was a respected and illustrious oracle who took trance of Gyalchen Dorje Shugden and Dorje Setrap, two enlightened Dharma Protectors in the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon...
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亲爱的朋友们: 我想和大家分享一个好消息,看到这个消息之后我很开心。尽管我养父大力栽培我,但我从小就没有喜欢过体育,但我绝对知道姚明先生是谁。我很欣赏那些利用自己的平台和名气来支持崇高事业的名人们。如果我们只是为了出名而出名,又有什么意义呢?我们去世之后,这些都是身外物了,但是如果我们像姚明先生那样,利用自己的名气来帮助他人减少痛苦,那也值得努力。 姚明先生不仅非常优秀,而且还富有慈悲心。 他为世界各地的名人树立了榜样,利用自己的名气来为世界作出的贡献。从今天开始,我成了他的粉丝,并且会为他祈愿。 姚明先生,谢谢你对动物的善心。 它们无法为自己发声,所以依赖我们来保护它们。成千上万的濒危鲨鱼会...
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The “Fasting Buddha” is a masterpiece from ancient Gandhara that was excavated in Sikri, Pakistan, in the 19th century. It probably dates to the 2nd century CE. The sculpture...
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The Eye Clearing Avalokiteshvara (Mig-Jed Chenresik) originates with the Revealed Treasure of the Nyingma Tradition and the teacher Nyangral Nyima Ozer in the 12th century. Since the original text...
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Question: Hello everyone! Is there a way we can pray or practice Shri Heruka Chakrasamvara without an initiation? Answer: Regarding the worship of Heruka Chakrasamvara without initiation, formal transmission,...
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Pastor Niral and Pastor Jean Ai told Pastor Seng Piow that if he cycled them from Kuala Lumpur to Lhasa, he will collect tremendous amounts of merits! LOL After...
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Dear friends, I came across this video of a senior lady Ms. Lynette Haines who is poverty-stricken and lives on just a small pension. She was a hard-working person her...
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His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche was an erudite monk who was very learned in the scriptures, a top debate master, accomplished artist, an expert in rituals to benefit others,...
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一个希望匿名的人给我发了这个消息,我看了非常高兴,于是就在这里跟您分享,好让大家一同随喜功德。马来西亚十五碑锡兰佛寺达摩拉达纳长老源自斯里兰卡,是一位博学的僧人。他长驻马来西亚的十五碑锡兰佛寺,在我们美丽的国土上跟有兴趣学佛的人们分享佛法。他深信佛教各宗派间的和睦关系——即便各个宗派在各自国家具有自身的修持方法,而这些修持方法在彼此看来都陌生。尽管这样,我们到底都是奉行释迦牟尼佛教法的佛教徒。我们应该以此思维作为准绳。我深深赞扬达摩拉达纳长老向佛教其他宗派的佛子建交,培养友好、和睦的关系,身体力行向我们展示佛陀的法教。 祈愿达摩拉达纳长老长寿、健康,法业增长,利益无数众生。 谦卑的詹杜固仁波切...
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This news was sent to me by someone wishing to remain anonymous. I was very happy to see it and share this here with you so you can rejoice...
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Dear Friends around the world, For as long as I can remember I have been interested in the Paranormal, mysterious and supernatural. I’ve been particularly interested in bigfoot....
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Prayer by the Great 5th Dalai Lama to Gyelchen Dorje Shugden HUM Though unmoving from the sphere of primordial spontaneity, With wrathful turbulent power, swifter than lightning, Endowed with...
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Congratulations to the first group who finished reading the autobiography of His Holiness Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche. I have a few thoughts for you. It is wonderful to have these...
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A Propitiation of Mighty Gyalchen Dorje Shugden, Protector of Conqueror Manjusri Tsongkhapa’s Teachings Composed by the Supreme Victor, the Great 14th Dalai Lama in Dungkar Monastery 1951 HUM Glory...
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Kechara’s Vajrayogini Prayer Wheels When we think of Tibetan Buddhism, we imagine ancient temples on the bleak slopes of the Himalayas, a refuge from the sufferings of the world, where the low, melodious chanting of scriptures can be heard, and where monks engage in meditative concentration o...
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Ucheyma: The Severed Head Goddess Vajra Yogini Ucheyma’s (Tibetan; Sanskrit: Chinnamasta) awe-inspiring depiction as a self-decapitating goddess has inspired generations of practitioners since the introduction of tantric practice in ancient...
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Shantideva was a Buddhist scholar, monk and philosopher, who lived between the 7th century and the 8th century. He is considered one of the 84 Mahasiddhas. Born a wealthy...
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Dear friends around the world, As most of you already know, I am a strong advocate of vegetarianism. I have always believed that a vegetarian diet can provide...
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Lubsan Samdan Tsydenov was a charismatic Buddhist master and visionary from Buryatia in Siberia. He was born at a time when Buddhism was flourishing in the region. However, as...
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Helping ghosts and others through mantras When we engage in certain bodily functions like spitting, breaking wind, urinating, passing motion and so forth, it can be an opportunity...
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“We were born alone and we will die alone. Yet even while alone we still have our shadow with us; and alone after death, our consciousness will still have...
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Official Announcement Friday 2nd November, 2018 Plum Village International Practice Center Le Pey, Thénac 24240, France The monks and nuns of the Plum Village International Community of Engaged...
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A tale of Vairochana (aka Berotsana བཻ་རོ་ཙ་ན་, bai ro tsa na) and Pang Mipham Gönpo (spang mi pham mgon po) After returning to Tibet, the learned pandit Vairochana was eventually sent into exile to East Tibet; there he taught Yudra Nyingpo, Sangtön Yeshe Lama and the old man Mipham Gönpo before the...
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b.1619 – d.1656 Tradition: Geluk དགེ་ལུགས། Geography: Lhasa ལྷ་ས། Historical Period: 17th Century ༡༧ དུས་རབས། Institution: Drepung Monastery འབྲས་སྤུངས་།; Olkha Cholung འོལ་ཁ་ཆོས་ལུང་།; Trode Khangsar སྤྲོ་བདེ་ཁང་གསར། Name Variants: Zimkhang Gongma 04 Sonam Drakpa Gyeltsen གཟིམས་ཁང་གོང་མ ༠༤ གྲ...
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Mahasiddha Lawapa Practicing Kumbhaka This detail of the great siddha Lawapa is one of our favorite depiction of the great Master of Mahamudra and Dream Yoga transmitted to Naropa...
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Mantras represent the blessings of the enlightened beings in the form of sound. When we recite mantras they stimulate the various parts of our body to heal itself, to...
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Pith Instructions on Mahamudra I bow to Vajra Dakini. 1 Mahamudra cannot be taught, Naropa, But your devotion to your teacher and the hardships you’ve met Have made you...
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Mahasiddha Shyalipa ཥྱ་ལི་པ། (Shya-li-pa) Unusual portrait of the siddha sitting in a cremation ground with a female attendant and tantric partner cutting and offering corpses. Shyalipa (Skt. Śalipa), the ‘Jackal Yogin’, is counted among the eighty-four Indian mahasiddhas. He was terrifi...
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Lama Yeshe talks about how to practice at the beginning and at the end of each day during teachings given in London during the Lamas’ first European teaching...
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A person who cannot or refuse to plan for something and make it successful has to rely on his past successes if any. He has to mention how successful...
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My very holy, wise and attained lamas told me over 30 years ago that Dorje Shugden is Manjushri. I’ve had many lamas and they tell me the same thing....
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Once upon a time I was born a small child in a cold hospital. I was tiny, helpless, an infant. I couldn’t take care of myself. I was vulnerable....
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People’s desire for sex, relationships and all that is such a downfall when all their energies is focused on this mainly. Their whole energy and mind is consumed with...
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When walking for health reasons or circumambulating holy objects, we can recite lots of mantras and pronounce the mantras with concentration. This will make our daily walks have deeper...
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Some people address him as Sogpu Rinpoche while others address him as Guru Deva (Guru of the Gods), but I had the great pleasure of staying in his house...
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The Putuo Zongcheng Temple of Chengde, Hebei province, China is a Qing dynasty era Buddhist temple complex built between 1767 and 1771, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor...
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This detail from the incredible thangka (scroll painting) shows the great accomplished master (drubchen/mahasiddha) Ravigupta practicing in a cave. Practicing in caves are common in the Buddhist world as...
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I love statues and images of Mahasiddha Kukkuripa. He practiced the ‘Diamond Dakini’ sadhana and meditation till full realizations. This statue is nice where his beloved doggie is kissing...
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Wisdom from an Old Lady For ninety-nine years, I have worked for the benefit of beings. Now this work is almost complete. I will not take birth again...
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Queen Genepil (1905-1938) the last queen of Mongolia. She was executed in May, 1938, shot as part of the systematic Stalinist destruction of Mongolian culture, in which a vast...
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Our large group in Bangkok woke up around 4 am to get ready. We left the hotel at around 5 am to drive to Banglampoo area of Bangkok. Without...
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Her practice includes methods to end the otherwise repetitive states of Bardo and rebirth, by transforming the process into a journey, which may lead to full enlightenment. In preparation...
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In the emerald forest there lies magical beings and powerful entities of old. There are beautiful gentle creatures of the forest such as deers, rabbits, owls and so on....
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Wonderful description of how Black Manjushri works on us from Zasep Rinpoche’s website on the practice: The Black Manjushri initiation and practice are helpful in healing cancer and protecting...
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Tsemrinpoche.com is now available in Nepali! Watch the videos below to find out more about the new website. For more information, visit: https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/l/np/.
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All enlightened beings are worthy of homage and worship. They are the best beings to take refuge in and we should offer them our prayers as we can put our full confidence in them. Of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, I personally find that Manjushri is extremely important. This is because what keeps...
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This video, narrated in Chinese, features Manjushri mantra stones. These are stones carved with the sacred mantra of Manjushri, the Buddha of Wisdom. The mantra of any Buddha is...
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View A poem inspired by seeing a picture of my teacher, Kyabje Zong Rinpoche. In the sport of correct views, all that is correct is just a view, without...
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Here is a short video to help you overcome bad dreams or nightmares that disturb one’s sleep. Short and easy to understand video, it does not matter what faith...
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I requested His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche to write out the mantra of Vajra Yogini. He immediately compassionately obliged me. This is the mantra as written by His Holiness...
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Legendary Rock group Heart sings “Stairway to Heaven” in tribute to Led Zeppelin. Incredible tribute and rendition. Everyone is blown away. Lead singer of Heart, Ann Wilson’s voice as...
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BREAKING EYEWITNESS FOOTAGE: Workers violently punched, kicked, cussed out, & left sheep to die on dozens of Scottish farms. Sheep bled after rough shearing & were stitched up without...
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Mantras represent the blessings of the enlightened beings in the form of sound. When we recite mantras they stimulate the various parts of our body to heal itself, to...
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Heart Sutra sang by a monk for the modern crowd. Very interesting and beautiful. ~ Tsem Rinpoche
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Jill Redwood is a jack of all trades, Jill built her own house on her property and lives entirely off the grid with no mains power or town water,...
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H.H. Kyabje Zong Rinpoche Explains Dorje Shugden Initiation and Benefits (With English Subtitles)
Dear everyone... This is a good condensed talk I gave on Guru Yoga of Tsongkapa. This is the one you should share with others when they are interested in a not too lengthy explanation. It is the perfect practice for everyone who wants simplicity yet effective blessings. You can share this with more people, it will be good.
~ Tsem Rinpoche
Powerful Dorje Shugden's mantras
Tsem Rinpoche on National TV's Wesak Day Documentary
'The Promise' book launch featured on NTV7 Primetime
"If you say you don't have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat?"
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"What makes us good humans is not how we abuse animals, but how much we allow them to live and be happy freely."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"We need another and wiser and perhaps a more mythical concept of animals.... We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complex than ours they moved finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."
~ Henry Beston, The Outermost House
"Not eating animals is only unnatural when we are not used to it."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"We may encounter defeat, but we must not be defeated."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"What you are today, is the choice you made yesterday."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"You think you can choose your life? What an ego trip!"
~ Lama Yeshe
"If TODAY you are dissatisfied, you must make the changes to create different results for TOMORROW."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
“Meditating on Dorje Shugden while reciting his mantra will open the gateways to higher dimensions, blessings and protection.”
~ Tsem Rinpoche
“If one does the recitation of the Lama Tsongkhapa guru yoga prayer for even one month using one of the visualizations for great or clear or quick wisdom, one will definitely see development of that wisdom. It is proved by experience. There is no doubt that by doing the Lama Tsongkhapa guru yoga practice one can meet Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings from life to life. And furthermore, it gives one the opportunity to be born in the pure realm of Lama Tsongkhapa, Tushita, whenever death happens.”
~ Pabongkha Rinpoche
"I was 18 years old in 1983. That was a very special year as I met His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche and received innumerable precious teachings and empowerments from Him at Thubten Dhargye Ling Centre in Los Angeles, California. It was the best time of my life. A time that seems so magical and surreal to me. Kyabje Zong Rinpoche is Heruka Buddha and I met Heruka."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"If being me offends you, maybe I'm not the problem."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Never abandon your spiritual teacher no matter how many inner obstacles you need to overcome."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Actions to force something to be permanent makes all the karmas arise."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"The dharma is not easy to listen to… because some people take it as criticism. But Dharma should not be just feel good only for the moment but for deeper contemplations."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Whether we do work and suffer but for others or we do work and suffer for ourselves, either way we have to suffer. That is the nature of samsara. So let us suffer for others and then suffering has meaning."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Those who really want the dharma to grow within themselves and to grow for others should never fear hard work, timing, difficulties, struggles, disappointments because it is for a good cause. Working for Dharma is not a prison or work, but it is purely spiritual practice. It is purely collection of merit and purification. Actually not doing dharma work is the real prison."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"His Holiness Zong Rinpoche stressed the need to continue to practice even when we come up against obstacles, and that we should continually review our progress. He stated that a happy, luxurious life was like a good dream, and that obstacles and difficulties were like a bad dream. We should give them no significance, but simply carry on working towards real, everlasting happiness."
~ Ngala ’ö-Dzin Tridral
"Things in samsara always go wrong. That's its nature. Don't be surprised."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Knowledge never quenches the thirst, only application."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"I pity men who occupy themselves exclusively with the transitory in things and lose themselves in the study of what is perishable, since we are here for this very end-that we may make the perishable imperishable, which we can do only after we have learned how to approach both."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Money amplifies negative characteristics and that can cause problems. To walk away from that was actually very easy. I didn't even consider it."
~ Angeline Francis Khoo
"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud."
~ Carl Jung
"There is a devil there is no doubt, but is he trying to get into us or trying to get out?"
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"If you love someone, show it by being honest, respectful & honorable with them."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"If I can just be the way I am & you the way you are & we accept each other, world peace is near."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"I am Asian, you are some other beautiful color. Together we make diversity so beautiful."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"It's amazing how some people have never met me or know who I am, but based on a few things they read here & there & rumours, they have formulated a new personality for me & all the things I've never done they passionately speak about....I find it funny and entertaining now. I guess we can't spend our lives fighting rumours...we just have to work hard & then rumours get proven wrong on it's own as a by product. No point explaining repeatedly. Just do our work & show results!!"
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"There's a difference between patience and laziness. Patience comes from respect while laziness from disrespect of others."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Although outwardly we have so much, we have so many conveniences, inwardly we have become more unhappy, so, acquisition is not the secret to happiness. The more we get, the more we have, the more unhappy we become."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Before we experience any pain, we already had a fixed view of how things should be. When the experience we encounter contradicts our views, then the pain arises. The pain arises due to our fixed views not so much the experience itself. So the secret is changing the views. Re-educating ourselves on our views."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"You know since very young, for better or worse, I always did the things that others told me not to do. I wasn't really good at following the rules. Even now with how I share Dharma and my practice, I just do it the way I think it should be done but I do it sincerely. Not what others tell me what I can and can't do."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Love me or hate me, both are in my favor... If you love me, I'll always be in your heart... If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind."
~ William Shakespeare
"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous or honest."
~ Maya Angelou
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Tsem Tulku Rinpoche Christopher Seaman Li Kheng
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See here: pendants- http://vajrasecrets.com/pendants.html and chakras- http://vajrasecrets.com/tibetan-chakras.html TR Read More Rinpoche, I feel somewhat weird leaving a comment in a public setting like this, but I know you see this page, so I felt it was necessary to say. Before ... Read More Dearest Rinpoche,
Thank you for the audio file of Black Manjushri’s mantra. It has been forwarded to members of Wenshu House. I am certain everyone, especially Christine and Betty, is ... Read More
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