(The 4th Zhabdrung Rinpoche of Bhutan and Dorje Shugden) འབྲུག་ཞེས་པའི་མིང་སྟོན་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས་མི་ཚོས་ས་ཐག་རིང་པོ་ཡིན་པ་དང་། ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡའི་ནང་ཚན་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ། རྫོང་ཆེན་པོ་རྙིང་པ་དཀར་པོ་ཡོད་པ། ཤིང་ནགས་གཙང་མ་སུ་ཞིག་ཀྱང་འགྲོ་མ་མྱོང་བའི་འཁོར་གཡུག་ཡག་པོ་ཡོད་པ།
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It has been over 20 years since our teacher His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche was first advised to write his biography. Back then, Rinpoche had humbly declined his teacher’s suggestion, saying that no one would be interested in or benefit from his story. Unperturbed, Rinpoche’s teacher pressed on, insisting that the biography be...
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The wrathful goddess Drashi Lhamo is considered one of the minor forms of Palden Lhamo. She is worshipped mainly at Drashi Gon Temple in Lhasa, Tibet...
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Baba Sawan Singh Grewal, known as “The Great Master” to his followers, was a charismatic Indian saint of the Sikh faith. He was the spiritual successor to his teacher, Baba Jaimal Singh...
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(中文翻译请往下看) Ramesh (the tall guard of Kechara Forest Retreat) told Pastor Niral that he used to see spirits along Jalan Chamang Road (the dark country road along Kechara Forest Retreat’s wall) in Bentong when he was patrolling. These beings would walk and come up to the wall of Kechara Forest Retreat but they cannot CROSSOVER THE WALL. They want to enter but since Kechara Forest Retreat is protected they cannot enter the wall into our land. So they would just walk along the wall up and down Jalan Chamang Road. He had many descriptions of v...
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One of the four largest sacred lakes of Tibet, Yamdrok Yumtso is believed to be the physical manifestation of the goddess known as Dorje Geg Kyi Tso...
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(An Open Letter of Appeal to His Holiness the Dalai Lama (April 30, 2018)) ༧རྒྱལ་དབང་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་བཞི་པ་རྗེ་བཙུན་འཇམ་དཔལ་ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་ཡེ་ཤེས་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་མཆོག་གི་དྲུང་དུ།
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(World’s largest Dorje Shugden shrine) கேச்சாரா ஃபோரெஸ்ட் ரீட்டீரீட்டில் இருக்கும் அழகான விஸ்டம் மண்டபத்தில், ஞானம் பெற்ற உலக அமைதி காவலர் டோர்ஜே ஷுக்டேன், தனது பரிவாரங்களான 32 உதவியாளர்களுடன் அமர்ந்திருக்கின்றார்.
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The following write-up below was submitted to us by a reader of the blog, James Yoshida, who also left it as a comment in the recently-published article “Dalai Lama: Thinking China is an enemy is naive | 达赖尊者:视中国为敌是愚昧的“. We are publishing it here because it contains some interesting information. The views expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect the views of this blog. I live in a democracy and we are allowed to disagree with another person without persecution. We are allowed to disagree with leaders without ...
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Dear friends around the world, Phayul.com, which is a website that covers Tibetan news and other Tibet-related issues, has just published an article titled “Division based on province, religious sect or political stand harms unity, says Dalai Lama”. I wholeheartedly, excitedly and happily welcome this news of what His Holiness the Dalai Lama has...
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Back in 2001, I had no inkling of just how involved in Dharma I would become. As a Masters degree-holder in Engineering, I was working as a research engineer in Singapore when I met H.E. Tsem Rinpoche. Rinpoche’s Dharma talk left a strong impression on me and after a few encounters with Rinpoche, I started...
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Su Shi was a prominent figure in the Song Dynasty as well as a poet, calligrapher, writer, painter, gastronome, pharmacologist, and a statesman...
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I wanted to share a nice thangka of Chenrezig with everyone. This thangka is important because through it, one can see the holy forms of not only Chenrezig but also various other important deities...
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(Reuters Publishes My Reconciliation Prayers for Asia) ང་རང་ཚོ་ནང་ཕན་ཚུན་མི་མཐུན་པ་དེ་དག་འགྲིགས་འཇགས་བྱུང་བ་ཡིན་ན། ང་ཚོས་འཛམ་གླིང་འདི་ནང་མཐུན་གཤིབ་ཚད་དང་ལྡན་པ་འཁྱེར་ཐུབ། ང་རང་ཚོའི་དུས་འདིར།
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(by Tsem Rinpoche and Stella Cheang) I am part Kalmyk. The Kalmyks are Mongolians who have their own republic in the Russian Federation called Kalmykia. My adoptive parents, along with hundreds of other Kalmyks, migrated to the USA between the 1950s and 1960s. At the time, America’s immigration policies did not favour Asians, but the...
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Satya Narayan Goenka was a leading Burmese-Indian lay teacher of Vipassana meditation. He was a student of the late Sayagyi U Ba Khin of Burma, an eminent 20th Century authority on Vipassana meditation...
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As the country with the largest majority of Buddhists in the world, Cambodia is a nation rich with spirituality. Buddhist temples can be found everywhere and one cannot walk down a street without passing a saffron-robed monk...
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Malaysian weddings are diverse, unique and colourful affairs, as is to be expected in a country that is a melting pot of cultures and faiths. Generally speaking, wedding customs in Malaysia are determined based on the couple’s race, religion or both...
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It is such a joy and pleasure to watch birds, squirrels and other animals eating the food I place out in the garden or on the veranda. For the first few weeks, they just observed us and the food. They didn’t come immediately. Gradually when I put small bits of food in an open...
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(Dalai Lama's Sudden Change of Mind About China-Backed Panchen Lama) ཉིན་འགའ་ཤས་སྔོན་ལ། ༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་གིས་མི་མང་པོ་ཧང་སངས་དགོས་པའི་བཀའ་སློབ་བསྩལ་ཡོད།
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