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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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Li Kheng) It all started in 1976, when His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama made a public statement that the practice of Dorje Shugden is malevolent and that it should be stopped. As a part of the lineage of living Buddhas and kings of ancient Tibet since the 1600s, it...
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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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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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Recently, one of my students drew my attention to a letter written by a Karma Kagyu Lama, His Eminence Lodreu Rabsel Rinpoche. It was addressed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the letter is honest, straight forward, eloquent, accusational, shocking and as if they have reached their wits end. It touches on a...
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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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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Li Kheng) One morning, I received a teaching from my Guru, His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche on “Why we want to become Vajrayogini” by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. After watching the profound teaching that was delivered in an extremely easy to understand manner, the first thought that came into...
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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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Pastor Lanse Chiah Lanse graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from Jinan University in Guangzhou, China in 1999 and became a part-time lecturer for several years, teaching western medicine in a Traditional Chinese medical college in Kuala Lumpur. For a long time, Lanse remained an atheist, subconsciously searching...
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(詹杜固仁波切撰写)马来西亚彭亨州文冬的暹猛路除了有个闻名的情人瀑布,还有一座 “有求必应”、香火鼎盛的金泽财王庙,是当地不可错过的旅游胜地。
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In the world of Tibetan Buddhism, His Eminence Zasep Tulku Rinpoche is a name that is esteemed amongst practitioners of the Gelug tradition all over the world. From a grand childhood enthroned as a Tulku at an early age, to his epic flight out of Tibet, followed by a mission to benefit the spiritual...
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(Exciting Dorje Shugden Store in Petaling Street Malaysia) மலேசியாவின் சுற்றுலாத்துறை மிகவும் பரபரப்பான மற்றும் செழிப்பான ஒரு துறையாகும். நாட்டின் மிக முக்கியமான கவரக்கூடிய இடங்களில் பெட்டாலிங் தெருவும் ஒன்றாகும்.
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(To Sum It Up) ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༩༦ ལོར་སྤྱི་ནོར་༧གོང་ས་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཤུགས་ལྡན་བསྟེན་གསོལ་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་དེ་བཀག་འགོག་བྱས་པ་རེད། ༧རྒྱལ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེས་རང་ཉིད་ཡིན་ནའང་ལོ་སུམ་ཅུ་ལྷག་གི་རིང་ལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཤུགས་ལྡན་བསྟེན་གསོལ་བྱས་པ་རེད།
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(译文请往下看) Malaysia has a very brisk and thriving tourist industry and one of the main attractions in the country is Petaling Street. It’s a famous night street-market in the capital city Kuala Lumpur, and an iconic must-see for all tourists. There are hundreds of outdoor stalls under a covered road so that come rain or shine, tourists can come here to look for cheap clothes, electronics, enjoy local Malaysian food, etc. Today on October 24, 2018 a group of my students surprised me with an offering of a Dorje Shugden store. They sent all the pict...
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In my small garden in Kechara Forest Retreat, on the roof of the newly built dog kennel landed a very unusual bird. I can see it clearly from my window. It is around 20-25 inches. All black except for two light brown wings. He has a long feathered tail and long beak. He is...
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