Zanabazar (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Zanabazar and Dorje Shugden Deity: Zanabazar (Mongolian) Alternative name: Losang Tenpei Gyeltsen (Tibetan) Zanabazar was born in 1635 and passed away in 1723. In 1939, at just four years old, he was unanimously elected as the spiritual leader of the Khalkha Mongols by a convocation of nobles. Later,...
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Yellow Dzambala (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Yellow Dzambala and Dorje Shugden Deity: Yellow Dzambala (English) Alternative name: Dzambala Serpo (Tibetan) According to tradition, Dzambala was Buddha Shakyamuni’s disciple and was a yaksha being. He protected the Buddha and on one occasion, he was badly injured. The Buddha healed him with nectar that issued...
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Vajrapani (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Vajrapani and Dorje Shugden Deity: Vajrapani (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Chagna Dorje (Tibetan) Known as Chagna Dorje in Tibetan, Vajrapani’s name literally means “Holder of the Vajra”. He is wrathful, appearing in the form of a yaksha being. With his right leg bent and left outstretched, he stands in...
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Four-Armed Chenrezig (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Four-Armed Chenrezig and Dorje Shugden Deity: Four-Armed Chenrezig (English) Alternative names: Chaturbhuja Avalokiteshvara (Sanskrit); Chenrezig Chag Shipa (Tibetan) Chenrezig is a popular archetypal Bodhisattva in the Sutras, in which he strives towards complete enlightenment. Within the teachings of Vajrayana Buddhism, Chenrezig is said to be a Buddha...
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Ghantapa (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Mahasiddha Darikapa, Mahasiddha Ghantapa, Chenrezig and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Mahasiddha Darikapa (Sanskrit) Darikapa was once the King of Pataliputra and was known as Indrapala. One afternoon, the king chanced upon the Mahasiddha Luipa and had instant faith in the master. He offered all his riches to his newfound...
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Naropa (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Vajra Yogini, Naropa and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Mahasiddha Naropa (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Panchen Naropa (Tibetan) The Mahasiddha Naropa was, in his time, one of the highest Buddhist scholars in the land of India and was made one of the Gatekeepers of Nalanda Monastery, a prestigious position granted only...
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Cittipati (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Cittipati and Dorje Shugden Deity: Cittipati (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Durdak Yabyum (Tibetan); Shri Shmashana Adhipati (Sanskrit) According to scriptural sources, Cittipati is also known as Shri Shmashana Adhipati, which literally means “Lord and Lady of the Charnel Ground”. The practice of Cittipati arises from the Secret Essence Wheel...
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1000-Armed Chenrezig (Top to bottom): 1000-Armed Chenrezig and Dorje Shugden Deity: 1000-Armed Chenrezig (English) Alternative names: Arya Sahasrabhuja Ekadasamukha (Sanskrit); Chenrezig Chag Tong (Tibetan) Chenrezig is known as the Buddha of Compassion and his 1000-armed form is a testament to his unceasing mission to help sentient beings overcome their suffering. Each of his 1,000...
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Vajrapani (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Vajrapani and Dorje Shugden Deity: Vajrapani (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Chagna Dorje (Tibetan) Known as Chagna Dorje in Tibetan, Vajrapani’s name literally means “Holder of the Vajra”. He is wrathful, appearing in the form of a yaksha being. With his right leg bent and left outstretched, he stands in...
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White Tara (Main figure) (Top to bottom): White Tara and Dorje Shugden Deity: White Tara (English) Alternative names: Sita Tara (Sanskrit); Drolkar (Tibetan) In the ancient text known as Praise to the 21 Taras, Tara is said to have emanated in 21 main forms. The most popular of these forms are the Green and...
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Hayagriva Secret Accomplishment (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Hayagriva Secret Accomplishment and Dorje Shugden Deity: Hayagriva Secret Accomplishment (English) Alternative name: Hayagriva Sangdrup (Tibetan) Hayagriva Secret Accomplishment is a form of Hayagriva popularised by the Shangpa Kagyu master Kyergangpa, who received the practice from Guru Rinpoche in a dream. Masters of other schools of...
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Vaishravana (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Vaishravana and Dorje Shugden Deity: Vaishravana (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Namtose (Tibetan) Vaishravana is an enlightened protector who, in the Tibetan tradition, is relied upon as a great wealth-bestowing deity. He is not to be confused with the unenlightened Vaishravana, who is one of the Four Heavenly Guardian Kings....
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Manjushri (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Manjushri and Dorje Shugden Deity: Manjushri (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Jampelyang (Tibetan) Manjushri is the patron Buddha of Wisdom. In his right hand, he holds a flaming wisdom sword which cuts away the roots of ignorance from our lives and in his left hand, he holds the stem of...
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White Mahakala (Main figure) (Top to bottom): White Mahakala and Dorje Shugden Deity: White Mahakala (English) Alternative names: Gonkar (Tibetan); Shadbhuja Sita Mahakala (Sanskrit) White Mahakala is an emanation of Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion. He is the principal wealth deity practised within the Shangpa Kagyu tradition founded by Khedrup Khyungpo Naljor in the...
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(Dalai Lama's Sudden Change of Mind About China-Backed Panchen Lama) ཉིན་འགའ་ཤས་སྔོན་ལ། ༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་གིས་མི་མང་པོ་ཧང་སངས་དགོས་པའི་བཀའ་སློབ་བསྩལ་ཡོད།
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几天前，达赖尊者做出了一项令许多人震惊的宣布。达赖尊者于2018年4月25日表示，根据“可靠消息”，他所认证的十一世班禅大师转世人选根敦确吉尼玛（也译为更登确吉尼玛）尚安然在世。
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On April 25, 2018, the Dalai Lama said that the Panchen Lama recognised by China is being educated by a good teacher AND that it is possible for two incarnations of a being to exist at the same time...
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ལྕང་སྐྱ ༠༢ ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་ཆོས་ལྡན། b.1642 – d.1714 Incarnations: Changkya ལྕང་སྐྱ། Tradition: Gelug དགེ་ལུགས། Geography: China ཨ་མདོ། Historical Period: 17th and 18th Century ༡༨ དུས་རབས། Institution: Drepung Monastery འབྲས་སྤུངས་།; Tashilhunpo བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ།; Kumbum Jampa Ling སྐུ་འབུམ་བྱམས་པ་གླིང།; Labrang Tashikhyil བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ།; Gonlung Jampa Ling དགོན་ལུང།; Tangring Monastery ཐང་རིང་དགོན་པ།; Drepung Gomang Dratsang སྒོ་མང་གྲྭ་ཚང།; Tashilhunpo Shartse Dratsang ཤར་རྩེ་གྲྭ་ཚང།; Zungchu Zi ཟུང་ཅུ་ཟི། Offices Held: Throne Holder...
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Formally known as the Tibetan Government in-Exile, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), or the Tibetan leadership who are based in Dharamsala, North India, have created problems by offering a pipe dream to the Tibetan community of India and Nepal. That pipe dream, although very lofty and commended by the free world, is totally idealistic. For the CTA...
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Thich Nhat Hanh is a courageous Vietnamese Buddhist monk, writer, poet, peace activist, scholar and teacher. Considered one of the most prominent Buddhist masters of our time...
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