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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(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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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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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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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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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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Years ago in Gaden Monastery I had a very vivid dream of a person giving me a painting of a Manjushri. This Manjushri was golden-orange in color, one face and two arms...
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(by Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David Lai) The Founding of Ratsag Monastery According to an inscription, Ra Bende Yonten Gyalpo founded Ratsag Monastery in the Yab Valley of Tolung, near Lhasa in the early half of the 11th century. It was built through the generous patronage of the noble Sego family. However, Go...
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Bentong is one of the few towns in Malaysia which has a majority of Guangxi Chinese within the Chinese community. Around 75% of the Chinese population in Bentong...
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Paramahansa Yogananda was an Indian saint and yogi who introduced the ancient teachings of Kriya Yoga to the world...
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Sai Baba of Shirdi is an Indian saint who practised both Hinduism and Islam. He dedicated his life to ascetic practice and to spreading the message of love...
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The current form of Naro Kachö Vajra Yogini appeared to the Mahasiddha Naropa after he meditated in a cave and focused on her sadhana, her rituals and her special generation and completion stage practices. After Naropa had accomplished Vajra Yogini’s path, which means that he had gained the attainments of her practice, she appeared...
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Duldzin Drakpa Gyeltsen was born in Drangyul, in U in 1374. A Kadampa monk, he was a main disciple of Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa and Gyeltsab Darma Rinchen...
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The connection between Vajra Yogini and the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal began with Mahasiddha Naropa and the Pamthingpa brothers. Her practice eventually became immensely popular across the country...
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