It’s important to understand what our religious directions are and what we should expect if we accept a religion. Without being judgmental, His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche expresses how he feels we should apply our religious faiths for the benefit of ourselves, people around us and our planet. It is said by some that religion...
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Dear friends around the world, Special guest speakers Dr. Phang Cheng Kar, International Healer Anne Jones, and Brahmacharini Nishita Chaitanya of Chinmaya Seva Ashram-Hong Kong have taken time from their busy schedule to speak so beautifully and lucidly in this video where they share their wisdom, thoughts, and views on reincarnation. These intelligent people come from different backgrounds yet can come across a shared view of how the belief in reincarnation can impact our daily lives. They also clearly point out how it positively affects thei...
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Everyone knows I had met His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama back in the United States and when I met him, I personally requested him to ordain me to become a monk. And His Holiness was very gracious and he said to me, “You want to be a monk?” I said, “Yes” and he...
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Dear friends, As you know, China has a very vast and deep history spanning thousands of years. This, in turn, developed into an incredibly rich culture; when Europe was still in the Middle Ages, China was already highly advanced in medicine, philosophy, science, engineering, astronomy, religion and architecture, to name a few. At the...
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Good news! Rejoice for Mr Kent Kok, Mr Hee, Mr Jeffrey Khor, CK Siah have just completed setting up a new Dorje Shugden chapel next to Seremban’s newly renovated N-Nine Food Court. This popular food court has 60 food stalls and operates from 6am till after 12 midnight. This means that many people will...
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Dafo Temple (大佛寺) in Zhangye city (张掖) is an ancient Buddhist temple located about 600 kilometres (around 372 miles) west of Gansu’s (甘肃) provincial capital of Lanzhou (兰州), China. The name of the temple came from its main Buddha statue which is the biggest indoor reclining Buddha in all of China. The temple was known by several names throughout the centuries, such as, the Kasyapa Buddha Temple (迦叶如来寺), Bojue Temple (宝觉寺), Hongren Temple (宏仁寺) and also Reclining Buddha Temple (睡佛寺). Dafo Temple was built in 1098 during the first year reign of E...
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Dear Rinpoche, Here’s a follow up to the recent videos and teachings that Rinpoche has given us about the vastness of the universe. My dad sent me this email, which shows us the relative size of earth, compared to some of the other MUCH MUCH large stars and planets in the universe. We are...
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Dear friends around the world, As most of you may know, I have always been very fond of unique creations of art and the lives of the talented artists that produce them. I am not much interested in fashion but I am interested in talent. The article below features some stunning and one of a kind...
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When one thinks of ghosts and hauntings, one is perhaps most likely to conjure up images of dilapidated old houses, abandoned, feral buildings, lonely rural roads, or dark, sinister forests. Yet it seems that ghostly phenomena are not confined to merely this common notion of what haunted places should be. At times, there come...
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The Goddess Lok Yeay Mao is a deity that is worshipped mainly in the coastal provinces of Cambodia such as Kampot, Kep and Sihanoukville. A large outdoor statue of the goddess was built on the top of Mount Bokor in Bokor National Park which overlooks the sea coast. Visitors to the mountain usually pay their respects to...
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Kechara Forest Retreat is a Tibetan Buddhist Retreat centre that heals, nourishes and enlightens life naturally and spiritually. KFR has been channeling eons of Buddhist wisdom through pragmatic teachings that are a source of peace to a world in search of spiritual empowerment, education and restoration of inner balance...
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In Buddhism, one of the things we learn is that things are not what they seem, and all too often we impose our ordinary and mundane perspectives onto certain Buddhist rituals. As a result, we develop wrong perceptions and fail to see one aspect of the tremendous benevolence of the Buddhas. One example is...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear learned friends, I wanted to share with you some interesting information that was recently brought to my attention. On December 28, 2018, during the 30th anniversary of His Holiness the 10th Panchen Lama’s passing into clear light, His Holiness the Dalai Lama issued a video message to commemorate the occasion....
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Dear friends around the world, I stumbled upon this website that features a Wat (Buddhist temple) called Wat Koh Wanararm located in Langkawi, Malaysia. It’s very beautiful and traditional. I have visited quite a lot of Wats in the past, and it was nice to be able to visit temples of different Buddhist traditions...
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Here’s another wonderful selection of supernatural encounters by celebrities. I find these neat as they show that people from all walks of life have experiences. Have a watch, learn and enjoy. Just click above on the video and watch. Very interesting episode. Note: All articles published on the blog are conceptualised, approved and...
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(My Plea to His Holiness) གཤམ་དུ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཤུགས་ལྡན་གྱི་སྐོར་དཔེ་རིས་དང་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཤུགས་ལྡན་གནད་དོན་སྐོར་རྣམ་པ་ཚོ་དང་མཉམ་དུ་གནས་ཚུལ་སྤེལ་འདོད་ཡོད།
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Disclaimer: The information and views provided in the article below are for educational purposes only. Please note that H.E. Tsem Rinpoche does not advocate the harming or killing of any being. Who Are the Icchantikas? There is a class of beings who are said to be beyond all redemption, losing forever the capacity to achieve Nirvana (or ‘liberation’), and have to live for a kalpa (an aeon) in hell. They are called the icchantikas (一闡提), or in Japanese, issendai. The term “icchan” originally refers to someone who is in a continual st...
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Here is a short yet extremely profound meditation on Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen, the previous life of the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. As many of you will already know, Dorje Shugden and his many previous lifetimes are all emanations of Manjushri, the Buddha of Wisdom. Therefore when we meditate on any of his previous lives,...
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His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche with his two well known disciples. (Left) Geshe Tsultrim Gyeltsen and (right) Lama Yeshe. Both of them were very devoted to Kyabje Zong Rinpoche, they were firm with their practice and their commitments and brought benefit to many beings throughout their lives. Very great beings. Their devotion to their...
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Over 20 years ago, I had this 5-foot Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara made. It was made in Delhi and escorted to Tsem Ladrang in Gaden Shartse Monastery, South India. Then my students and myself offered mantras, relics, jewels and brocades on this beautiful image as per tradition. Special rituals were done to consecrate it. Then I offered this...
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