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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(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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(14th Dalai Lama Prayer to Dorje Shugden) ༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་ནི་འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་གི་སྤྲུལ་པ་ཡིན་པས་ཁོང་ནི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཡིན་པ་དང་མཁས་བཙུན་བཟང་གསུམ་ལ་གནས་པར་ངེས།
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The following is a series of heart-wrenching images of a puppy resting beside the remains of its mother. This tragic event was captured by a Xinhua news photographer in Southwest China...
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Choyang Dulzin Kuten Lama was a respected and illustrious oracle who took trance of Gyalchen Dorje Shugden and Dorje Setrap, two enlightened Dharma Protectors in the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon...
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The journey to the heavens might be a spiritual one but it often materialises a physical aspect, too. It is perhaps this aspiration to reach the world above that inspired Myanmar‘s Taung Kalat Buddhist Temple. Devotees believe that Taung Kalat (which means Pedestal Hill), perched atop a volcanic vent, is home to four of...
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Dear friends, I wish to share some very good news with all of you. I was very happy to read about this. Although I have never been into sports even from a young age, despite my father’s best efforts, I definitely know who Mr. Yao Ming is. I admire celebrities who use their platform...
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Dear friends, Roses are one of my favourite flowering plants. My mom used to plant scores of them in the front garden of our home in New Jersey and I was in charge of watering them, fertilising them, pruning them and otherwise taking care of them. So I have grown to like roses very...
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(Trode Khangsar - A 400 year old Dorje Shugden chapel in Lhasa) སྤྲོ་བདེ་ཁང་གསར་ནི་བོད་ཀྱི་ས་གནས་ལྷ་ས་ལ་ཡོད་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཤུགས་ལྡན་གྱི་གལ་ཆེ་བའི་རྟེན་ཁང་དེ་ཡིན། དེ་ནི་༧གོང་ས་ལྔ་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་ནས་དུས་རབས་བཅུ་བདུན་པའི་མཐར་བཞེངས་པ་ཡིན།
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(5-Foot Gyenze Statue Arrives in Kechara Forest Retreat) ரத்னா ஷுக்டேன் என்றழைக்கப்படும் கியான்ஸே, தர்மத்தின் பாதுகாவலரான டோர்ஜே ஷுக்டேன் அவர்களின் மிக முக்கியமான ஐந்து அவதாரங்களில் ஒருவராவார்.
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(It's Contradictory to Drive Away Evil Forces) དེ་ནི་སྤྱི་ནོར་༸གོང་ས་སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་ཉེ་ཆར་གྱི་གསུང་བཤད་ཤིག་རེད། ངས་ཁོང་ཉིད་ཀྱི་སྙིང་རྗེ་ལ་ཡིད་ཆེས་གཙང་མ་ཡོད། དེ་ཙམ་མ་ཟད་ཁོང་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་དེ་དག་ལག་ལེན་ཡོད་པའི་རེ་བའང་ང་ལ་ཡོད། གནོད་སྦྱིན་གྱིས་འགྲོ་བ་ཡོད་དོ་ཅོག་ལ་བསམ་བློ་ངན་པ་ཞིག་དང་།
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The great statue of Amitabha Buddha gazes affectionately down at the world from the top of Mount Fansipan, the infamous “Roof of Indochina”, at an astonishing height of 3,143 m (10,311.7 ft) above sea level. This spectacular statue is one of the main attractions of Sun World Fansipan Legend, the spiritual and cultural complex...
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Shrungagiri Shanmukha Temple is a unique Hindu temple situated on Shrungagiri Hill in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, which is a popular tourist and religious destination in Bangalore. This temple is dedicated to Lord Shanmukha, and is renowned for its temple tower, which is adorned by the six faces of Lord Shanmukha. Lord Shanmukha is a Hindu...
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Buddhism is a major world religion and philosophy founded in north-eastern India in the 5th century BC. It is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as “The Buddha”, who was born in what is now Nepal. The goal of Buddhism is to escape from suffering and the cycle of rebirth through...
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