(译文请往下阅读) Dear friends, These are some thoughts I came up with. I am hoping one day His Holiness the Dalai Lama will speak these words but of course in his own special and charismatic way. I do not mean any of these memes to mock His Holiness the Dalai Lama. I would never do that. But the ban against Dorje Shugden practitioners has been happening since 1996 and it has been repressive, severe and heartbreaking to say the least. So much confusion, hatred and disharmony within Tibetan Buddhists have been created due to the segregation against Dorj...
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Since the Tibetans first entered into an exiled existence in 1959, the vast majority of them have found a home and refuge in India. They reestablished themselves on 27 tracts of land throughout India which were granted to them by the government under Jawarhalal Nehru, the Prime Minister at the time. On these pieces...
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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...
Tags: nepal, pilgrimage, tantra, travel, vajrayogini
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Adeline) Formerly known as David Hewavitharne, Anagarika Dharmapala (Sinhalese: අනගාරික ධර්මපාල) of Sri Lanka was one of the most revered Buddhist revivalists and writers of the 20th Century. He was well known as a significant reformer of Buddhism in Sri Lanka as well as one of the founding fathers...
Tags: author, biography, Bodhgaya, books, Buddhism, india, pilgrimage, scholar, sri lanka
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Jean Ai) Any Dorje Shugden practitioner with an active online profile will know that we are often faced with vitriolic and abusive comments online. These range from how Dorje Shugden practitioners receive Chinese government funding, to our supposed inferiority as Buddhists because we are not Tibetan, to how we...
Tags: dorje shugden, guru devotion, jean ai
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(译文请往下阅读) Dear friends around the world, The advice below was recently given by the Protector Dorje Shugden during the Lunar New Year of 2018. This year, the Tibetan New Year (Losar) and the Chinese New Year fell on the same day, February 16. On that same day, the Protector Dorje Shugden kindly gave the following advice via His Eminence the 7th Panglung Kuten in trance. This is not the first time Dorje Shugden has given advice. Over the years, I have consulted him numerous times and every single time, Dorje Shugden answers patiently, with compa...
Tags: buddha, Buddhism, china, dharma, dorje shugden, gelugpa, lama tsongkhapa
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For Chinese New Year 2018, I was given the opportunity to share on the essence of prosperity and spirituality with The Star, a major Malaysian national newspaper. Many people believe that wealth and spirituality are at odds...
Tags: chinese, chinese new year, festival, Malaysia, press, the star
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Dear friends around the world, The land of Tibet is where the Buddhadharma was preserved in its entirety following its transmission from India, so it is not surprising that Tibet is filled with many monasteries and eminent lamas who keep the teachings alive. The Dorje Shugden lineage is strong and thousands are initiated into...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Professor Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (18 October 1870 – 22 July 1966) was a prolific Japanese writer known for his translations of important Zen (Chan) and Shin (Jodo Shinshu or ‘Pure Land’) Buddhist texts. His work was instrumental in igniting widespread interest in Buddhism in the West, and was a significant catalyst...
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Dear friends around the world, I have always been a big fan of spiritual, metaphysical, mystical, historical and paranormal related subjects. I even have a special section on this blog dedicated to paranormal articles. What interests me is discovering how ancient knowledge has made an impact on the modern era. For instance, there are...
Tags: aliens, archaeology, history, india, mysteries, science
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(Calling Upon the Divine) பல சாமான்யர்கள் தன் சுயநலத்திற்காகவும், தங்கள் நிலையை மேம்படுத்திகொள்வதற்காகவும் ஆன்மீகத்தைக் கற்றுக்கொள்கிறேன் என்று தாங்களே ஒப்புக்கொள்கின்றனர்.
Tags: dorje shugden, miracle, tan keng nam, travel
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How Dorje Shugden helped in the time of need… There may be many lay spiritual practitioners who are embarrassed to admit that the main reason for their practice in the first place is something personal and which can be classed as self-cherishing. If one is able to hear the silent prayers to the divine...
Tags: dorje shugden, miracle, tan keng nam, travel
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Shin Tan) Dr. Edward Conze is known as the foremost Western scholar of Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) literature, and the best way to introduce this great intellectual and his work is his insight into Wisdom (below), which is one of the Five Spiritual Faculties or indriya (Pali/Sanskrit). This set...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David Lai) Ven. Dr. Walpola Rahula Maha Thera is widely acclaimed to have been one of the greatest luminaries amongst Sri Lankan scholars of the 20th century. He was a fully ordained monk of the Theravada tradition, an erudite scholar and author of a number of important books on...
Tags: biography, Buddhism, history, inspiration, people, scholar, spirituality, sri lanka
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The presence of the Chinese labourers in Bentong can be traced back to 1889 when the British expanded their mining activities in Bentong. With the capital provided by local business magnates, namely Mr. Loke Yew and his partners, Bentong was poised to be a key mining town...
Tags: bentong, china, chinese, history, Malaysia
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Joy Kam) The Birth of One of India’s Great Scholars A renowned scholar of the Vedas, Buddhism and the Indian arts, a philosopher, and one of India’s great thinkers, Professor Lokesh Chandra was born to an illustrious family of educationists in Ambala, Haryana State, in 1927. He is currently the...
Tags: biography, books, free downloads, iconography, india, scholar, thangka
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Niral Patel) Self-help books are a dime a dozen these days. As soon as you walk into a bookstore or want to buy an eBook online, you are bound to come across the self-help section, also known as ‘popular psychology’ or ‘general psychology’. It is something unavoidable in this...
Tags: books, change, habit, reviews, self-help, self-improvement, transformation
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Since 1996, Dorje Shugden practitioners have been suppressed, marginalised and ostracised as a result of their faith, practice and refusal to give up Dorje Shugden as their Dharma Protector. The ban was formalised and made official with the passing of three resolutions in the Tibetan Parliament which stated clearly the Tibetan leadership’s reasons for...
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Over three days in January 2018, Dorje Shugden practitioners and representatives from 20 countries around the world gathered in Kathmandu, Nepal to discuss the direction and preservation of the lineage. Hosted at the Yak and Yeti Hotel, the conference began on January 4 with an opening ceremony officiated by ministers from the Nepali Government,...
Tags: dalai lama, dorje shugden, kathmandu, lama thubten phurbu, nepal, news
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This (mostly) pilgrimage trip to Sri Lanka was inspired by my Guru, H.E Tsem Rinpoche, who encouraged me to bring my family on a blessed pilgrimage trip instead of a regular holiday to places which do not have much meaning. I thought about what my Guru said, and it makes a lot of sense...
Tags: pilgrimage, sri lanka, stupa, travel
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