(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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Buddhist art has a rich and intricate tradition of expressing the divine iconography of awakened beings. They are not just beautiful works of art but contain powerful symbolism and are representations of the stages of an awakened mind. Therefore, they serve not just to entice our senses but also to invoke the presence of...
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Introduction The pursuit of spiritual perfection has fascinated mankind since the beginning of religious practice in the world. Over time, there have arisen many religions, philosophies and ways of life dedicated to finding the meaning of life and the nature of reality. Buddhism is one such religion that emphasises this pursuit. Within the...
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This photograph won the first prize in the China category of National Geographic’s 2017 photography contest. Though, it may just look like a photo of people sleeping on a fast moving train in China, it has deep significance...
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这是我想与大家分享的照片。这张照片获得了2017年《国家地理》全球摄影大赛中国全球摄影大赛中国赛区一等奖。 对一些人来说,或许它看起来只是一张中国一列疾弛火车上人们睡觉的照片,可是它却有深远的意义。
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(译文请往下阅读) The King, Queen, Pope, Dalai Lama, Gaden Tripa, Sharpa Choje and Sakya Trizin combined cannot tell you or force you to stop Dorje Shugden practice even if you received the instructions from your guru who might be just an ordinary temple sweeper or simple monk. Your guru the temple sweeper and all the Buddhas are one daily in our meditations and especially when he manifested as Buddha when he gave you the Dharma, love and instructions. I mean no disrespect to the King, Queen, Pope, Dalai Lama, Gaden Tripa, Sharpa Choje and Sakya Trizin...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Over the years there have been a number of studies on the Dharma Protector Nechung who is commonly known as Pehar Gyalpo. Amongst the various works on Dharma Protectors, one of the most influential and condensed was written by Dr Christopher Paul Bell, an expert in Asian/Tibetan Religions. For his doctorate...
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Physicist Stephen Hawking cites a very simple yet clear reasoning as to why creator does not exist. He also mentions clearly his belief that beings from other planets can and do exist. Also kindness in humans is very important. Do watch this interesting video. It is short yet meaningful. Inspiring and also very down to...
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The New York Times recently published this article providing succinct coverage of the ongoing Tibetan elections. Unlike the Reuters special report, the New York Times coverage was accurate and balanced, using easily identifiable sources of information to highlight aspects where the Tibetan electoral process has fallen short.
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Recently I was going through the Himalayan Art Resources website when I stumbled across their Dorje Shugden section featuring art from all traditions and schools of Buddhism...
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In 2012, a White Tara statue in Surabaya, Indonesia, was thrust into the spotlight when her eyes, sculpted closed in meditation, suddenly opened and glanced to the side...
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(詹杜固仁波切和黎国圆讲法师合撰)
亲爱的朋友们:
多杰雄登与西藏佛教萨迦传承的渊源相当久远,这是广为人知的事实。事实上,多杰雄登最初先受到萨迦派的认证和供奉,后来才成为格鲁传承中广为修持的护法。
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Dear Rinpoche, I came across this article today which features The Summit of Bodhisattva, Pusa-Ding Monastery – Wutaishan. According to the article, Emperor Kangxi visited this monastery...
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(An Open Letter of Appeal to His Holiness the Dalai Lama - April 30, 2018) पवित्र १४औं दलाई लामा जेत्सन जाम्फेल नवाङ लोब्सांङ येशे तेन्जिन ग्यात्सो पेल्सांग्पो,
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很高兴能为大家呈现我们位于尼泊尔加德满都的首面多杰雄登护法壁画。这面壁画坐落在Dilli Bazaar的Charkhal路段,就在前往我们两座位于Putalisadak和Chabahil...
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नेपालको काठमाडौँमा दोर्जे शुग्देनको हाम्रो पहिलो भित्तेचित्र तपाईंहरुसामु प्रस्तुत गर्न पाउँदा म धेरै उत्साहित छु! डिल्लीबजारको चारखाल सडकमा अवस्थित भित्तेचित्र पुतलीसडक र चाबहिलमा...
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关于藏传佛教格鲁派创始人宗喀巴大师的出现,佛陀在世时就曾授记:未来在佛教稍许式微之时,有这么一个人会降生,振兴其教法。在佛陀时代,一男童(宗喀巴大师的前世)向佛陀供养一串水晶念珠。
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In his teachings, Lord Buddha proclaimed that desire is the most potent form of delusion within our realm of existence and as such he labelled it the “Desire Realm”. Lord Buddha went on to elaborate that there are actually three realms of existence, known as the Form Realm, Formless Realm and Desire Realm, each...
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Jinul Puril Bojo Daesa was a Korean Buddhist monk best known for combining the teachings of various Korean Buddhist sects into a single school known as the Jogye Order...
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(They Were Not Wrong) ང་རང་ཚོ་བསྟན་སྲུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཤུགས་ལྡན་བསྟེན་གསོལ་བྱེད་མཁན། དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན། བླ་མ་སྐྱེས་ཆེན་དམ་པ། གྲུབ་ཐོབ། གྲུབ་ཐོབ་ཆེན་པོ་མང་པོ་དང་། ཆོས་ལུགས་སྣ་ཚོགས་འཛིན་མཁན་ ༢༠༥ ཡོད་པ་རྣམས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཤུགས་ལྡན་དང་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་པ་རེད།
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