A terrifying man-bird hybrid of sorts with glowing red eyes. That is the common description of the creature christened “The Mothman” by the press, named after a character from the popular Batman television series. Since its first reported sighting back in 1966, many subsequent reports and wild speculations have ensued. However, conclusive photographic evidence...
Tags: creatures, cryptids, monsters, paranormal
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致世界各地的朋友们:
我有西藏及蒙古血统,因为我的父亲是藏人,母亲是蒙古人。如今,西藏及蒙古都是中国不可分割的一部分。而我自年幼便一直对中国的文化、建筑、艺术、宗教信仰,尤其是对中国皇室血脉及皇室成员特别感兴趣。我一直对这些事物感兴趣。
Tags: Buddhism, chinese, dorje shugden, practice
Posted in Buddhas, Dharma & Practice, China 中国, Dorje Shugden, 中文 | 19 Comments »
Dear friends around the world, As most of you will know, I have always been attracted to tales of supernatural creatures and cryptids like Bigfoot, faeries, aliens, trolls, little people, spirits and the list goes on. On my blog, there is a section specifically dedicated to articles and stories on these supernatural beings (you...
Tags: ghosts, mysteries, paranormal, spirits, supernatural
Posted in Ghosts and Hauntings, Mythology and Mysteries, Paranormal, Science & Mysteries | 24 Comments »
(Should There Be a Separate Dorje Shugden Autonomous State 1) བཙལ་བྱོལ་བོད་པའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ནང་ཁ་གསང་མཁན་དཀོན་པོ་ཞེ་དྲགས་རེད། གང་ཡིན་ཟེར་ན་བོད་མིའི་དབུ་ཁྲིད་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཐོབ་ཐང་མང་པོ་མ་སྦྱིན། དེ་འདྲ་སྨྲ་བར་དགོངས་འགལ་མེད་པ་ཞུ།
Tags: china, dalai lama, dorje shugden, tibet, tibetan
Posted in Dorje Shugden, བོད་ཡིག | 987 Comments »
(Should There Be a Separate Dorje Shugden Autonomous State 2) ༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་རིན་པོ་ཆེས། དངོས་ཡོད་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ལ་མ་ལྟོས་པར། མི་མང་གིས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཤུགས་ལྡན་བསྟེན་གསོལ་བྱེད་ཆོག་རེད། ཅེས་གསུང་བཤད་གནང་ཀྱང་།
Tags: china, dalai lama, dorje shugden, tibet, tibetan
Posted in Dorje Shugden, བོད་ཡིག | 976 Comments »
(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear treasured friends around the world, When I first founded Kechara back in the year 2000, one of my wishes was to have a Dharma community… people who dedicate themselves to learning, practicing and teaching the Dharma. As Kechara grew, this need became even more urgent because physical growth must also...
Tags: Buddhism, dorje shugden, practice, teaching
Posted in Buddhas, Dharma & Practice, Dorje Shugden | 85 Comments »
With an apt theme titled Behind My Smile, UCSI Scholar’s Circle (U-Schos) had an exciting program lined up for their Humanitarian Week 2017. Held at MaGIC, Cyberjaya, there were various forums, talks and discussions and on the last day was the award presentation for Malaysia’s Top 10 Most Empowering Young Community Champions Award for...
Tags: award, charity, community, Kechara, Kechara Soup Kitchen
Posted in Inspiration & Worthy Words, Kechara Soup Kitchen (KSK), Liaisons | 10 Comments »
Nageshvaraja (By Tsem Rinpoche) Nageshvaraja is also sometimes called Nagaraja. His name literally means ‘Tathagatha King of the Nagas’, known as ‘Luwang Gyalpo’ in Tibetan. He is also one of the 35 Confessional Buddhas as listed within the Mahayana Sutra of the Three Superior Heaps that we prostrate to in order to purify heavy...
Tags: buddha, kechara forest retreat, Malaysia, news, practice
Posted in Buddhas, Dharma & Practice, Malaysia | 26 Comments »
如果我说,在接下来的日子里,我会经常只让你吃这顿白饭加白糖,你会有什么反应呢?再仔细看一下,又好像是给小孩子吃的,那就更加诡异了。只有白饭加白糖,连大人都不敢吃的食物搭配,怎么可以让小孩子吃呢?
Posted in Behind The Scenes, 中文 | 3 Comments »
(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David) The great Lopon Sonam Tsemo (1142-1182 CE) was the 2nd of the five founding fathers of the Sakya tradition and the 9th in Naropa’s lineage of Vajrayogini practice. He was the eldest of the three great sons of Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, the 1st founding father of the Sakya...
Tags: buddha, dharma, great masters, inspiration, practice, vajrayogini
Posted in Buddhas, Dharma & Practice, Great Lamas & Masters, Vajra Yogini | 49 Comments »
Sporting braided locks and a clean-shaven face, boyish Tibetan Zhaxipingcuo has just made it into the final of Sing! China, a ratings runaway success in China with billions of online views. On the other side of the world, lanky 16-year-old, six-foot, 185-pound catcher Justin Qiangbarenzeng (Jampa Ringzin) becomes the first Tibetan to sign with...
Tags: china, india, music, success, successful, tibet, tibetan
Posted in Celebrities & People, Current Affairs & News, Inspiration & Worthy Words | 15 Comments »
Dear friends around the world, Please take five minutes out of your hectic day to read the article and understand the message it is trying to bring across. This really shocks me to the core and I am extremely sad to read this, we really took cruelty to the next level. Every time we...
Tags: animal cruelty, animals, vegetarianism
Posted in Animals, Vegetarianism & Environment | 31 Comments »
Dear friends around the world, As I have mentioned before in the past, learning about the lives of great Buddhist masters is an extremely important part of our spiritual journey. For example, if you aspire to be or have a particular interest in a singer, politician or writer, wouldn’t it make more sense to read their biographies or the books they authored? By reading up about them, we will understand the difficulties these great people went through to get to where they are today and this will inspire us on our paths towards realising our ...
Tags: chinese, Pabongka Rinpoche, three principal paths
Posted in Prayers and Sadhanas, 中文 | 1 Comment »
Dear kind friends around the world, A friend shared this article with me which I wanted to share with you all because it is such good news. One of the global fashion powerhouses which is Gucci is going to stop using fur for its fashion in 2018. Not only that but whatever they have...
Posted in Animals, Vegetarianism & Environment | 27 Comments »
In conjunction with Deepavali, I had the opportunity to extend my warmest greetings to all Malaysians in The Star and to share how we can find our own light within and in turn, become a light for others...
Tags: deepavali, india, Malaysia, press
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Christianity has long associated animal-headed divinities with pagan religions. Consequently, these divinities are denounced and declared as anti-Christ or as manifestations of the devil. Certain Christians quote passages of the Bible that refer to God’s displeasure at the worship of a bull-headed pagan god to validate their viewpoint. However, if one were to delve...
Tags: christianity, current affairs, history, religion, spirituality
Posted in Art, Architecture & Culture, Current Affairs & News, Guest Contributors | 7 Comments »
Dear friends around the world, A few days ago, I came across a video of a refreshing Tibetan man speaking very passionately. He looked interesting and creative in the thumbnail of the video, so I took a listen to it and I was pleasantly surprised by what I heard. So I wanted to share with you...
Posted in Current Affairs & News, Dorje Shugden | 32 Comments »
Theos Casimir Bernard’s life story is one filled with adventure, spiritual encounters and a worthwhile determination. He pioneered expeditions to Tibet including the famed city of Lhasa in 1937, at a time when Tibet was closed to foreigners due to a policy of self-isolation. He was only the third American ever to set foot...
Tags: buddhist, explorer, tibet
Posted in Asia, Celebrities & People, Explorers, Travel | 9 Comments »
Dear friends around the world, Do you know that 884 million people around the world lack access to basic drinking water, with 159 million people dependent on surface water? Contaminated water is one of the causes of disease, especially in developing countries. Those who live in developed countries are more fortunate as water systems...
Tags: ecosystem, environmental issues, health, water, waterborne disease
Posted in Animals, Vegetarianism & Environment, Current Affairs & News | 16 Comments »
Dear friends around the world, Since young, I have always been attracted to “unusual” subjects such as Bigfoot. On this section of my blog here, you will find a lot of Bigfoot-related subjects. Bigfoot or Sasquatch has been a subject of discussion by numerous researchers and Bigfoot followers around the world. With the advancement...
Tags: bigfoot, Malaysia, news, sasquatch
Posted in Current Affairs & News, Malaysia, Yeti/Bigfoot/Sasquatch | 22 Comments »