(Videos Redressing the Misinformation About Dorje Shugden and the Tibetan Situation) བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིགས་འཛུགས་ཡང་ན་རྡ་སར་གནས་པའི་བོད་གཞུང་དེས། དེ་ཚོ་སོ་སོའི་དམངས་གཙོའི་བཅའ་ཁྲིམས་ལམ་ལུགས་དང་འགལ་ནས།
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(Videos Redressing the Misinformation About Dorje Shugden and the Tibetan Situation) བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིགས་འཛུགས་ཡང་ན་རྡ་སར་གནས་པའི་བོད་གཞུང་དེས། དེ་ཚོ་སོ་སོའི་དམངས་གཙོའི་བཅའ་ཁྲིམས་ལམ་ལུགས་དང་འགལ་ནས།
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Lubsan Samdan Tsydenov was a charismatic Buddhist master and visionary from Buryatia in Siberia. He was born at a time when Buddhism was flourishing in the region. However, as he had foreseen challenging times ahead, he did not let the favourable circumstances blind him. When the Russian civil war broke out, Tsydenov’s decision to...
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When we think of Tibetan Buddhism, we imagine ancient temples on the bleak slopes of the Himalayas, a refuge from the sufferings of the world, where the low, melodious chanting of scriptures can be heard...
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Here is another one of my favourite videos. Before the videos, it was the best selling book! I read this book decades ago several times and it really ‘made sense’ to me. I loved the book and I loved this documentary based on the book. I remember being in my bedroom laying down on...
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Ucheyma's awe-inspiring depiction as a self-decapitating goddess has inspired generations of practitioners since the introduction of tantric practice in ancient India. Her practice had migrated north to Tibet...
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Shantideva was a Buddhist scholar, monk and philosopher, who lived between the 7th century and the 8th century. He is considered one of the 84 Mahasiddhas. Born a wealthy prince, Shantideva turned his back on the material world the night before he was to be crowned king. This extraordinary transformation blossomed from the teachings...
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Arya Nagarjuna was a famous Mahasiddha, Buddhist philosopher, and alchemist who was born 400 years after Buddha Shakyamuni’s parinirvana. He is known for establishing the Middle Path (Madhyamaka) Buddhist tradition, making gold to fulfil the needs of the Sangha, and retrieving the Prajnaparamita Sutra from the Naga realm. Nagarjuna is considered the first of...
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Ven. Jeong Kwan is a 61-year-old Zen Buddhist nun who has lived the life of a hermit for the past 44 years. Born into a Korean family with six other siblings, she grew up on a farm and learnt to make noodles by hand at the age of just seven. This deeply impressed her...
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I have been a fan of hippie culture since I was very young. For those of you who may not be aware, hippie culture began in the United States during the 1960s as a youth movement...
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Dear friends around the world, One of my students, Kent Kok, has been unwell with heart problems. He went for a medical procedure and I was very concerned and worried about him. So I invited him to stay in Dukkar Apartments in Kechara Forest Retreat for a few weeks to recover and get well,...
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Kyabje Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo is by far one of the most influential Gelug lamas of the 20th Century. He arose from almost relative obscurity to become one of the biggest and most influential lamas of his time. The advent of his teachings ushered a whole new spiritual movement centring on the tantric deity Vajrayogini and...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Shin Tan) October 14, 1956 was a historic day for India. On this day, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, a social reformer and the chief architect of India’s Constitution, renounced Hinduism and converted to Buddhism along with around 400,000 of his followers in Nagpur. This event was historic not only because...
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When the historical Buddha, Prince Siddhartha Gautama, achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi tree in Bodhgaya, he came to be regarded as a perfect being. As such, his physical body was said to bear the marks and signs of this perfection. His perfect physical body was the direct result of three aeons of cultivating virtues...
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(The Farm of Your Mind) ཀེ་ཅ་རའི་ཆོས་ཚོགས་སུ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་ཉེར་ལྔ་པ་༸སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཚེམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ལྟ་བུ་བླ་མ་དང་། རྡོ་རྗེ་ཤུགས་ལྡན་ལྟ་བུ་ཆོས་སྐྱོང་བཞུགས་ཡོད་པ་ནི་བསོད་ནམས་ཅི་ལ་མིན།
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The Russian Federation, or Russia in short, is the largest country in the world, covering 17 million square kilometres and boasting an extensive coastline. Its capital, Moscow, is also the most populous city. Like the country’s two other major cities, St. Petersburg and Novgorod, it is located in Western Russia. Russia stretches for 4,000...
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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.
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Hello from way across the pond. I am a dharma practitioner from Massachusetts USA. I first heard of tsem rinpoche on YouTube and was immediately drawn to him. I had ... Read More Greetings Rinpoche,
I would simply like to express my gratitude for your wisdom given in videos and lectures. They have helped pull me from addiction and illusions that were disrupting my ... Read More I have received immense benefits from Mother Tara and Namgyalma. Their practices, along with Lord Tsongkhapa's, have lifted a great weight from my shoulders. I owe it all to you, ... Read More
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