Back to the Streets!! More volunteers for KSK!!!
Our KSK or Kechara Soup Kitchen dept is really growing. Every month we distribute over 700 packets of food in the city to so many homeless. It is such...
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Our KSK or Kechara Soup Kitchen dept is really growing. Every month we distribute over 700 packets of food in the city to so many homeless. It is such...
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Today I got this wonderful MMS pictures (above and below) and text message from KB. I am going to reproduce what he sent: Dear Rinpoche, Raj Kumar and I...
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A few weeks back my students Kelvin and Cynthia’s beautiful baby girl came out into this world. I was asked to name her, so I named her Marici after...
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Paris has been around with me for 5 years. I recognized her sharp intelligence and GREAT WRITING immediately. She met me by interviewing me at first in our Kechara...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Recently I had monk friends from Gaden visit me. They had assisted me in the Vajra Yogini Self initiation rite that I had needed to do....
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The newly elected KH committee who are ready to go and benefit many through our beautiful Kechara House. Back row, left to right: Committee Becky Yap, Treasurer Yoke Fui,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I always like to do things that are unconventional or have different from the norm… especially when being different make things stand out better to attract...
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Mr Rajkumar and his wife Sangeeta are my very good friends from Nepal. They both came to Malaysia for a visit and were special guests of Tsem Ladrang. They...
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Wai Meng above making prayers and offering of khata at ladrang altar to start his first day of work full time in the dharma. Welcome aboard finally!!! It is...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In 2008 I took a group of over 60 people to the holy places of Vajra Yogini and Buddhism in Nepal. I went to each place...
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Kechara Media and Publications is a dept of Kechara House that we affectionately call KMP. KMP is a dept that I conceptualized a few years back to publish our...
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Happy Birthday Mumu! Great cake!! Mumu loves the balloons!! Every ready to play.. March 23, 2010 was a special day for the Birthday boy. Without informing me, a few of my lovely students...
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Dear Rinpoche, New Sun Conure report: New sun conure is longer hanging off corner of the cage Can feed sunflower seeds by hand Other sun conures go to say...
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No matter how many pictures I see of His Holiness, I never get tired of seeing them. How can anyone ever get tired of seeing many images of a...
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Mumu had a super short army haircut here, so we can call him Seargent Mumu… Well the above was your ‘daily’ dose of cute to cheer you up and...
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The Thai King is someone I really admire, respect and very much find him to be one of the people that has done so much for others in this...
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I have always been a advocate of saving the lives of animals. I have been doing this for many years. The joy and satisfaction derived from seeing animals free,...
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One of the places I always wanted to visit since I was a child. I saw this image in Land O’Pines School library’s encyclopedia. From then I generated a...
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I pay homage to the all Auspicious Holder of the White Lotus, Jetsun Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, Who is the King of Dharma, Whose many deeds reach out like...
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Kechara World Peace Centre will be set on 30 acres of land not too far from KL city. KWPC is one of the twelve Departments of Kechara House Buddhist...
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I received this distressing information over twitter. I am very worried. She has two days left from the time we post this. Does anyone have anyone in the US...
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This evening around one hour ago… I received a request from my long time student Adeline from Melaka to be a nun. I met Adeline for the first time...
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Dear friends, This seems like an interesting article… I don’t agree with everything but it is quite well thought out and based on many observable truths. Interesting blog spot...
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Monlam, Suming, Sengpiow, mumu and me went to two pet shops that are pretty big tonight. I don’t go out much, very seldom in fact. When I do go,...
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Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the...
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Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of humanity and all beings....
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When a man has learned how to live as a real human being without disturbing others, he can live peacefully without any fear in his heart. ~Venerable Dr. K...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Serenity and generosity are qualities of the heart. Insight and Concentration are qualities of the mind. Compassion and wisdom are qualities of the true nature. ~Heart...
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“Buddhism has done more for the advance of world civilization and true culture than any other influences in the chronicles of mankind.” ~H. G. Wells
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“Where is anger for one freed from anger, Who is subdued and lives perfectly equanimous, Who truly knowing is wholly freed, Supremely tranquil and equipoised? He who repays an...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Compassion is not for others. It is not something to read about or admire. It is not something to praise. It is not a philosophy alone....
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Liaison Sengpiow also my personal assistant has interesting ways of ‘drinking’ water. I have heard of thirsty, but this is really beyond thirsty! Who says people who work for...
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At Tsem ladrang (where I live) we have a large outdoor aviary with Cockatoos, Conures, Cockatiels, Malaysian Parrots, sparrows. They are outside with lots of greens and natural rain. I...
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June 18,2004…this was the great day that I brought mumu home. He just arrived and we took this picture. I loved him from the first minute I saw him...
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This videos continues with the adventures of Mumu meeting his new friend for the first time. I took him to a Dharma house where they have Drolma. Mumu was...
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This video is of mumu on his first year with me. Sometimes i would have to go out and he’d be alone in the kitchen. He had the whole...
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Mumu or yogi is always ready to play and active…this was taken around 2 years back. Tsem Rinpoche
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My Dearest friends, Please don’t just be sad, shed tears, be depressed and then it’s forgotten. Please do something about this. Please save animals. Please go to the link...
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Liaison JP is very creative. He conceptualized this great altar in Tsem Ladrang for our private home worship on the ground floor. I live on the 2nd floor of...
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CEO of Kechara Media Publication-Malaysia proudly holding up one of the latest books they have published. It contains quotes extracted from my dharma talks. The cover is fantastic and...
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We are truly honored as he is a person who is speaking up to save the planet from the results of Global Warming. We pray for him, support him...
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Everything on this planet and other planets have a right to live. You do not have any right to take it away with any justification. Blood, slaughter, killing, murder...
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We can’t be sure of anything. But we can be sure that animals can feel love, pain, sadness, fear, comfort and happiness. If that is the case, why beat...
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Dear Beng Kooi, Thank you very much for your letter and those books of Tsem Rinpoche, infact i am really happy that Rinpoche still remembers those precious time in...
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7:15PM March 19, 2010, Friday Just now I was tweeting and blogging and these two BEAUTIFUL STATUES of Setrap arrived as gifts from Lily and Keng Nam in England....
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I love Yogi or my little Mumu from the depths of my heart and miss him when I travel. But he has wonderful people in the Ladrang who really...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The seated Phra Buddha Maha Nawamin statue located at Wat Muang in Ang Thong Province, some two hours north of Bangkok & an hour north of...
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We have over 90 full time wonderful ppl working in various depts of Kechara. We have countless part time and volunteers also who are just as important. They work...
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Raj Kumar has quite high astigmatism. But his power not very high-just around 125. Will be making glasses for him. Sangita getting her eyes checked now. Here’s Raj with...
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Each Liasion has a specific responsibility to take care of one of the 12 Depts of Kechara House (KH) or a specific job related to one of the departments....
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I love her when she is in her Wonder Woman outfit on stage..You can imagine…. Yes, wonder woman!!! She is really quite talented and hilarious on stage and I...
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In 1908 His Holiness paid a short visit to China in order to bring an understanding between Tibet and China regarding the growing border tensions. He was received with...
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The 13th Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobsang Thubten Gyatso was born on May 27, 1876 amidst auspicious signs such as flowers that bloomed out of season, rainbows and his mothers’...
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His Holiness Pabongka Rinpoche was the definitive Master of the Gelugpas in the 20th Century. He was the root guru of both Kyabje Trijang Dorje Chang and Ling Dorje...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Nepal has had a long tradition of Vajra Yogini worship.They have many sacred temples dedicated to Her. They have Her depictions everywhere. It is such a...
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If you are a Buddhist, then with zero ands, if’s and buts, PLEASE STOP EATING MEAT. There is so much other things to eat without meat. After a while,...
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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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Thank You kindly Rinpoche. Also, this might not be the most appropriate place to mention this, but I must thank You for the Je Tsongkhapa box set You created. It ... Read More We took some time to discuss the book, The Promise by Rinpoche (you can get the book from here http://vajrasecrets.com/the-promise-a-tsem-tulku-biography.html) a few weeks ago. Initially most of us were not ... Read More How did I find out about Tsem Rinpoche... I actually do not remember to be honest. I believe I was on Youtube one day and I came across one of ... Read More
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