Manjushri (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Manjushri and Dorje Shugden Deity: Manjushri (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Jampelyang (Tibetan) Manjushri is the patron Buddha of Wisdom. In his right hand, he holds a flaming wisdom sword which cuts away the roots of ignorance from our lives and in his left hand, he holds the stem of...
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King Manjushri Yashas (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Kalachakra, Dharma King Suresana, King Manjushri Yashas and Dorje Shugden. Deity: King Manjushri Yashas (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Rigden Jampel Dragpa (Tibetan) In 880 BCE, Buddha revealed himself as Sri Kalachakra in Dhanyakataka in South India in order to expound the Kalachakra teachings to King of Shambhala,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Niral) Dear friends, I wanted to share with all of you some information about the holy Dharma protector Achi Chokyi Drolma from the Drikung Kagyu school. The great-grandmother to the founder of the school, Kyobpa Jigten Sumgon, her practice is widespread and very efficacious. Her story and practice is...
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Hope Rinpoche is well and that everything is going very smoothly in Singapore. This is just to update Rinpoche that our teenaged Kechara member, Hecelus Tan, has finished his personal Manjushri retreat in Jamyang House...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Pujas (prayer sessions / offerings) have a lot of significance… It is not just a prayer that we make when we need help with something or want to ask for something. They can have very deep meaning and can really bring so many different types of benefits to ourselves and people...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche, originally published Jan 21, 2013) My Bodhgaya Vajrayogini (17 inches) Over a decade and a half ago – Bodhgaya as everybody knows is the place where Lord Buddha chose to become enlightened where he sat under a tree. And his tree or offspring of it is still alive in Bodhgaya which...
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We’re going to talk about a very controversial, very important topic, the pith of Buddhist practice, which is actually guru devotion with the teachings on how to devote oneself to a spiritual teacher correctly...
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(How to Purify Your Karma in Kechara Forest Retreat) ངའི་དགེ་ཕྲུག་ཀཱན་ཀོཀ་མཆོག་སྙིང་གི་ནད་གཞི་ཞིག་བྱུང་བ་རེད། ཁོང་ཉིད་ནས་སྨན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་བརྒྱུད་རིམ་ཡོད་ཚད་ལ་བསྟན་པ་རེད། ཁོས་ཐོག་ལ་ང་ལ་སེམས་ཁྲལ་ཡོད། དེ་འདྲ་སོང་ཙང་ངས་ཁོང་ཉིད་ཀེ་ཆ་རའི་ཤིང་ནགས་སྒོམ་སྒྲུབ་ཁང་ནང་ལ་བདུན་ཕྲག་ཁ་ཤས་ཤིག་གི་རིང་ལ་ལུས་གསོ་དང་།
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David Lai) The supreme goddess Vajrayogini is highly revered as the heart practice of many high lamas and mahasiddhas of India, Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia and China. The founder of the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, Lama Tsongkhapa, was famous for advocating the Yamantaka, Heruka and Guhyasamaja practices, but after...
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Tibetan Buddhism has spread far and wide since 1959, when preeminent masters together with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama left Tibet and entered exile in India. From India and other countries, these masters were able to propagate the Buddhadharma to the benefit of countless millions all over the world. An organisation which played...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) This Manjushri tsatsa just arrived today. It contains part of the ashes of my student and friend Mr Justin Ripley who passed away due to heart failure not too long ago. Part of his ashes were consecrated and mixed with clay and other holy objects and made into Manjushri tsatsas by monks. I composed this poem today because a deeper sense of faith in Manjushri grew stronger in me spontaneously just now and I was inspired to write. After composing the poem, I get a immediate message from Bryan Ho that this Manjushri tsatsa just ...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Li Kim is the head of Kechara Media & Publications (KMP), she works very hard for the department and at the same time taking care of her lovely family with 3 beautiful boys. They just invited a 3-ft Manjushri statue to their house for the boys! What a great way to...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) A few weeks ago, I came across a set of guidelines that Venerable Acharya Kyabje Zasep Tulku Rinpoche had written for his students back in 1999. From his guidelines you can see he is straightforward, honest, genuine and real. He is really out to find genuine receptacles of dharma. Being real...
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The Rinjung Lhantab is a voluminous collection of tantric deity sadhanas (spiritual practices) that was compiled and edited by Palden Tenpai Nyima, the 7th Panchen Lama...
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Todai-ji Temple, also known as the Great Eastern Temple, is an ancient Japanese Buddhist temple located in the city of Nara, Japan. This historic temple was unveiled in 752 CE during the Nara period and it was the largest building project on Japanese soil at that time. There are various sources but according to...
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Duldzin Drakpa Gyaltsen is perhaps one of the more notable previous lives of Dorje Shugden. In this incarnation, he is said to have made the promise to arise as a Dharma Protector to protect the precious teachings of his teacher Lama Tsongkhapa, thus laying the foundation for Dorje Shugden to manifest later, in another...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Commentary on Trakze Practice: A Practice to Dispel Black Magic and Spirits This commentary on Trakze practice was compiled from traditional sources by His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche. Date: 30th January 2015 NOTE: This is a commentary on Trakze’s practice and can be done daily by anyone who wants to receive protection...
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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. He can benefit many beings during this time and age because our distractions are so many. We need a special protector who can ‘push’ through...
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Lama Tsongkhapa (Five Visions – Sitting on a Lotus) (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Lama Tsongkhapa and Dorje Shugden Lama: Lama Tsongkhapa (Tibetan) Alternative names: Sumati Kirti (Sanskrit); Lobsang Drakpa (Tibetan) It is said that after Lama Tsongkhapa entered clear light, Khedrub Je often made requests to him for guidance and inspiration. On five...
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Lama Tsongkhapa (Five Visions – Throne held by Youthful Gods) (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Lama Tsongkhapa and Dorje Shugden Lama: Lama Tsongkhapa (Tibetan) Alternative names: Sumati Kirti (Sanskrit); Lobsang Drakpa (Tibetan) It is said that after Lama Tsongkhapa entered clear light, Khedrub Je often made requests to him for guidance and inspiration. On...
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