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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(By Tsem Rinpoche, Joy Kam and edited by Pastor David) A brief history of Sera Monastery Sera Monastery is one of the “three great” Gelug monastic universities of Tibet, located north of Lhasa. The other two are Ganden Monastery and Drepung Monastery. The Sera complex is divided into two sectors by pathways; the eastern...

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Lobsang Chokyi has been a student of His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche for over 20 years. Through the years, Ani Chokyi has witnessed Rinpoche’s compassion and the unconventional methods he uses to benefit others. Some of the short stories she shares will tell interesting miraculous events that Rinpoche will not mention due to...

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Lobsang Chokyi has been a student of His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche for over 15 years. Through the years, Ani Chokyi has witnessed Rinpoche’s compassion and the unconventional methods he uses to benefit others. Some of the short stories she shares will tell interesting miraculous events that Rinpoche will not mention due to...

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As members of the Ladrang team, we frequently assisted with gifts and offerings made to Rinpoche. Making offerings to our spiritual teacher, or guru, is a long-standing tradition and practice in Buddhism, particularly in Tibetan Buddhism. This is because all spiritual attainments are said to be the result of our guru’s blessings. Thus one...

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Many of us claim to be animal lovers. We say we love animals, but just how much do we really love them? To what extent would we go to help an animal? To what extent would we give something up in order to save an animal? Our guru, His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche is the...

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Joy has been a student of His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche for over 15 years. Through the years, Joy has witnessed Rinpoche’s compassion and the unconventional methods he uses to benefit others. Some of the short stories she shares will tell interesting miraculous events that Rinpoche will not mention due to his humility....

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Joy has been a student of His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche for over 15 years. Through the years, Joy has witnessed Rinpoche’s compassion and the unconventional methods he uses to benefit others. Some of the short stories she shares will tell interesting miraculous events that Rinpoche will not mention due to his humility....

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Joy has been a student of His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche for over 15 years. Through the years, Joy has witnessed Rinpoche’s compassion and the unconventional methods he uses to benefit others. Some of the short stories she shares will tell interesting miraculous events that Rinpoche will not mention due to his humility....

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Joy has been a student of His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche for over 15 years. Through the years, Joy has witnessed Rinpoche’s compassion and the unconventional methods he uses to benefit others. Some of the short stories she shares will tell interesting miraculous events that Rinpoche will not mention due to his humility....

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Joy has been a student of His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche for over 15 years. Through the years, Joy has witnessed Rinpoche’s compassion and the unconventional methods he uses to benefit others. Some of the short stories she shares will tell interesting miraculous events that Rinpoche will not mention due to his humility....

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Joy has been a student of His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche for over 15 years. Through the years, Joy has witnessed Rinpoche’s compassion and the unconventional methods he uses to benefit others. Some of the short stories she shares will tell interesting miraculous events that Rinpoche will not mention due to his humility....

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Sometime back, probably between 1999 and 2000, Rinpoche gave me a chakra. A chakra is a blessed Tibetan Buddhist amulet and this particular one from Rinpoche was given to me through my sister...

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If you were ever called into Rinpoche’s room alone, then you will be able to relate to this feeling. It is a feeling of excitement and also fear that you will make a stupid mistake in front of your Guru...

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One of the very first things Rinpoche did was to encourage us to start living on our own, instead of depending on our parents or family all the time. Rinpoche wanted us to grow up, to be independent...

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One of the things that Rinpoche used to do when we first started living in Dharma houses was surprise visits and inspections. It was always exciting as well as scary because most of the time...

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Surrendering to the Guru means trusting the Guru’s training and co-operating with the Guru who is skilfully trying to help us to purify our karma and collect merits in the quickest and most effective ways...

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One of the many bad habits that Rinpoche firmly helped us put a stop to was using words without much thought, especially those we are very used to easily saying. These include...

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The first time I had to cook for Rinpoche, I was so terrified because before that I had only ever cooked for myself. It was a nice and quiet morning when I got into the Ladrang...

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Joy has been a student of His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche for over 15 years. Through the years, Joy has witnessed Rinpoche’s compassion and the unconventional methods he uses to benefit others. Some of the short stories she shares will tell interesting miraculous events that Rinpoche will not mention due to his humility....

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