Around 8 years ago in Singapore (Geylang), I happened across this Monastery by chance…I stopped the taxi and went inside to look…it was under massive renovations…but it had this huge Kuan Yin and I was so attracted…I wanted to visit the place again when it was done but for years forget where this Monastery...
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Nicole Lee is the 8 year old daughter of Any Loke and Bean Lee. She’s a very active girl whose parents are themselves active members of Kechara House. She follows her parents 2-3 times a week to help clean the gompa and help set-up for pujas. Although people could see her as just a...
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I am very very greatful to the great Tsem Rinpoche and all working here for Dharma, I am really very grateful 🙏 Namo Buddhaya 1.My neighbor have four caged bird and when they go for farming at village they gave it to me for 10 days to care. I literally could see their efforts...
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Dear friends, I was on tweets a few weeks back (‘meeting’ interesting people on tweets and generous too) talking about wanting to get the ten definitive bigfoot books of all time. Suddenly Tara tweeted me and offered to help me find them. Tara offered to go to used bookstores ( I prefer...
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The Eighty-first Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Norbu was born in Zungchu in Amdo. He was later said to be an emanation of Mahasiddha Sarahapa, one of the mahasiddhas of the eighth century in India...
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Hello Kechara! Firstly I want to say thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for providing us all with the prayer texts for the beautiful Puja’s during this year’s Ullambana and Dorje Shugden festivals, it was a privilege to chant along with the pastors via the Kechara FB livestream. My question...
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Tenpa Yarphel Speaks Up Against Nechung Dear friends around the world, I would like to share with all of you an interesting development within Tibetan politics which could have positive ramifications in how they treat religious differences, segregation and bias in Tibetan society. Until now the treatment of people with varying religious practices...
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I have noticed in visualizations that many deities such as Manjushri and Saraswati are often to be visualized as 16 year olds. Why is this so? As for visualization for seed syllables and mantras, I found that the seed syllable for Palden Lhamo was "Jo", but was is her mantra in Tibetan? Could you...
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Dear friends, Every member of our family that loves us is important. Be they human or animal. Many have pets that are more family than human family. Pets usually are loyal, uncomplaining and give us love, affection and company. When they pass, it can be as devastating as any human member of our family....
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(Reuters Publishes My Reconciliation Prayers for Asia) ང་རང་ཚོ་ནང་ཕན་ཚུན་མི་མཐུན་པ་དེ་དག་འགྲིགས་འཇགས་བྱུང་བ་ཡིན་ན། ང་ཚོས་འཛམ་གླིང་འདི་ནང་མཐུན་གཤིབ་ཚད་དང་ལྡན་པ་འཁྱེར་ཐུབ། ང་རང་ཚོའི་དུས་འདིར།
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In the tantras such as Tara, White Tara, Vajrapani, Manjushri, Saraswati, Tsongkapa, Dukkar, Avalokitesvara, Oserchenma, Maitreya, etc, it is highly recommended you do not eat meat/eggs when you engage in their sadhanas, practice, retreats. When you do Tara Pujas (Drolchok), you are suppose to avoid meat or you shouldn’t engage in the pujas. In...
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Back when I was a teen in Los Angeles, I got connected to a friend who used to run around Hollywood doing extra parts, trying to be an actor. We’d become friends and we talked, and he said to me that there’s a new movie coming up by John Carpenter called Christine. It’s about...
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The Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje was born in 1284. His father, named Chopel, is described as a Nyingma practitioner. While still a young child his parents brought him on pilgrimage in Tsang...
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such as manjushri who embodiment wisdom, I'm attracted to taking refuge on a buddha that embodiment wealth. Can we take refuge in dzambala? Is he a buddha? If dzambala is enlighten why vaishravana is not enlighten? as vaishravana is cheif of all dzambalas, right? Based on your answer you guys have mention that vaishravana...
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கெச்சாரா ஃபோரஸ்ட் ரிட்ரீட்டில் காலை நேர மத்தியில் புனிதமானவர் திசெம் ரின்போச்சே எங்களில் சிலரை தனது அறைக்கு அழைத்தார். நாங்கள் அவருக்கு முன்னால் அமர்ந்தபோது, ரின்போச்சே தனது...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) Some people think if they trust Trijang Rinpoche they are against H.H. Dalai Lama. Some people think if they have faith in H.H. Dalai Lama which they should, they cannot accept Trijang Rinpoche. That is wrong view. Certainly H.H. Dalai Lama is a high incarnation, highly attained and one of the greatest scholars of Buddhism in this world. He really practiced the sacred teachings and became attained…lifetimes ago and incarnate to benefit others. But His Holiness the Dalai Lama was not the only one. Many great be...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) If you look at the influential lamas of today who are doing great works around the world, it would be safe to say all of them can count His Holiness Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche as their direct teacher or lineage teacher. As a young monk Pabongka Rinpoche was not known to be...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In the language of ancient India (Sanskrit), Tara literally means ‘Savioress’. She is a female Buddha with a particularly long history of being worshipped by many great Indian and Tibetan masters. The practice of Tara originally descended from ancient India during the time of the great Indian Buddhist institutions. In the...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Martin Chow) The Buddhist belief in ’emanation’ can be a somewhat complex concept to grasp. The term originates from the word ’emanate’ or ‘to come out from a source’. That word itself comes from the Latin emanare meaning ‘to flow from’. A Buddhist emanation is an animate or inanimate form...
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在多杰雄登的转世传承中,没有任何一位大师拥有班禅索南扎巴同等的荣誉。他在那一世不仅是第十五任甘丹赤巴,还担任了格鲁三大寺——甘丹寺、哲蚌寺和色拉寺的堪布法台。他也是宗喀巴大师的直系弟子——持律主杜津扎巴坚赞的无误转世。
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