This news was sent to me by someone wishing to remain anonymous. I was very happy to see it and share this here with you so you can rejoice in it too. Ven K. Sri Dhammaratana of Buddhist Maha Vihara in Brickfields, Malaysia is a learned monk from Sri Lanka. He is stationed in the...
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Elementals, little people, faeries, goblins, trolls and many other alternate-dimensional beings exist all over the world. They appear differently, dress differently and even have different habits according to their particular geographical location. But one thing is for sure – they have been spotted by people of all cultures, backgrounds and countries. Tibet is no...
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Dear Friends around the world, For as long as I can remember I have been interested in the Paranormal, mysterious and supernatural. I’ve been particularly interested in bigfoot. In North America there are thousands of recorded sightings of bigfoot per year that are reported. There are grainy pictures, captured sounds they make, recorded...
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(Can Tibetan Lamas Make Mistakes?) ཤུགས་ལྡན་གྱི་རྙོག་དྲ་ནི་ཡིད་སྐྱོ་དགོས་པའི་གནས་སྟངས་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ་དང་། གནས་སྟངས་འདི་མཇུག་མ་སྒྲིལ་བར་ཇེ་སྡུག་ཏུ་འགྲོ་བཞིན་ཡོད། ང་རང་༧རྒྱལ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ལ་སྐུར་བ་བཏབ་འདོད་མེད།
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Prayer by the Great 5th Dalai Lama to Gyelchen Dorje Shugden HUM Though unmoving from the sphere of primordial spontaneity, With wrathful turbulent power, swifter than lightning, Endowed with heroic courage to judge good and bad, I invite you with faith, please come to this place! Robes of a monk, crown adorned with rhinocerous...
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Congratulations to the first group who finished reading the autobiography of His Holiness Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche. I have a few thoughts for you. It is wonderful to have these readings TOGETHER about Trijang Rinpoche. It is wonderful to read about a REAL Buddhist practitioner like Trijang Rinpoche. He faces all the challenges, downfalls, plots,...
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A Propitiation of Mighty Gyalchen Dorje Shugden, Protector of Conqueror Manjusri Tsongkhapa’s Teachings Composed by the Supreme Victor, the Great 14th Dalai Lama in Dungkar Monastery 1951 HUM Glory of the wisdom, compassion and power of infinite Buddhas Miraculously powerful protector of Manjusri Tsongkhapa’s Teachings Arisen as a lord of all wrathful worldly hosts...
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(Videos Redressing the Misinformation About Dorje Shugden and the Tibetan Situation) བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིགས་འཛུགས་ཡང་ན་རྡ་སར་གནས་པའི་བོད་གཞུང་དེས། དེ་ཚོ་སོ་སོའི་དམངས་གཙོའི་བཅའ་ཁྲིམས་ལམ་ལུགས་དང་འགལ་ནས།
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Kechara’s Vajrayogini Prayer Wheels When we think of Tibetan Buddhism, we imagine ancient temples on the bleak slopes of the Himalayas, a refuge from the sufferings of the world, where the low, melodious chanting of scriptures can be heard, and where monks engage in meditative concentration on the nature of the mind and reality. Clouds of incense smoke waft over the landscape and pious pilgrims, both young and old, circumambulate the holy sites and white-washed stupas, chanting mantras and spinning hand-held prayer wheels. Prayer wheels,...
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Ucheyma: The Severed Head Goddess Vajra Yogini Ucheyma’s (Tibetan; Sanskrit: Chinnamasta) awe-inspiring depiction as a self-decapitating goddess has inspired generations of practitioners since the introduction of tantric practice in ancient India that spread to Russia, Mongolia, Bhutan, Nepal, China, Tibet, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and now the world. Tantra has been brought to the world in...
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Shantideva was a Buddhist scholar, monk and philosopher, who lived between the 7th century and the 8th century. He is considered one of the 84 Mahasiddhas. Born a wealthy prince, Shantideva turned his back on the material world the night before he was to be crowned king. This extraordinary transformation blossomed from the teachings...
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Dear friends around the world, As most of you already know, I am a strong advocate of vegetarianism. I have always believed that a vegetarian diet can provide the nutrients our bodies need while giving us the option to live healthier and cruelty-free lives. It is a false belief that we can’t get...
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Europe Tibetan Public Talk is a group of Tibetans who live in Europe and they are from all backgrounds and all parts of Tibet. Being that they have lived in Europe for many years, they understand what true democracy and religious freedom is about. They are Tibetan Buddhists and some of them are very...
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Lubsan Samdan Tsydenov was a charismatic Buddhist master and visionary from Buryatia in Siberia. He was born at a time when Buddhism was flourishing in the region. However, as he had foreseen challenging times ahead, he did not let the favourable circumstances blind him. When the Russian civil war broke out, Tsydenov’s decision to...
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Helping ghosts and others through mantras When we engage in certain bodily functions like spitting, breaking wind, urinating, passing motion and so forth, it can be an opportunity to benefit other sentient beings. There are certain types of hungry ghosts or those who have taken rebirth as spirits, who are attracted to these...
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“We were born alone and we will die alone. Yet even while alone we still have our shadow with us; and alone after death, our consciousness will still have with it the shadow of our actions, good and bad. By the time we are just about to enter the bardo, the intermediate state between...
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Official Announcement Friday 2nd November, 2018 Plum Village International Practice Center Le Pey, Thénac 24240, France The monks and nuns of the Plum Village International Community of Engaged Buddhists stand by our beloved teacher, the Zen master, global spiritual leader, peace activist and poet Thich Nhat Hanh, as he returns again to his...
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A tale of Vairochana (aka Berotsana བཻ་རོ་ཙ་ན་, bai ro tsa na) and Pang Mipham Gönpo (spang mi pham mgon po) After returning to Tibet, the learned pandit Vairochana was eventually sent into exile to East Tibet; there he taught Yudra Nyingpo, Sangtön Yeshe Lama and the old man Mipham Gönpo before the Buddhist Tibetan King Trisong Detsen summoned him back to Lhasa. Vairochana was a great translator and contemporary of Guru Padmasambhava. Pang Mipham Gönpo became a student of Vairochana when he was already eighty (80) years old. Although 80 years ...
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b.1619 – d.1656 Tradition: Geluk དགེ་ལུགས། Geography: Lhasa ལྷ་ས། Historical Period: 17th Century ༡༧ དུས་རབས། Institution: Drepung Monastery འབྲས་སྤུངས་།; Olkha Cholung འོལ་ཁ་ཆོས་ལུང་།; Trode Khangsar སྤྲོ་བདེ་ཁང་གསར། Name Variants: Zimkhang Gongma 04 Sonam Drakpa Gyeltsen གཟིམས་ཁང་གོང་མ ༠༤ གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན། Drakpa Gyeltsen, better known as Tulku Drakpa Gyaltsen, was born in 1619 in Tolung Gekhasa (stod lung gad kha sa) into a noble family by the same name as the village. His family had previously produced the Twenty-fifth Ganden Tripa, Pe...
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Mahasiddha Lawapa Practicing Kumbhaka This detail of the great siddha Lawapa is one of our favorite depiction of the great Master of Mahamudra and Dream Yoga transmitted to Naropa or Naropada. Credit: HAR 81409 Lawapa or Lavapa (var. la ba pa; grub chen la ba pa; wa ba pa) was a figure in Tibetan...
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