
For Chinese New Year 2018, I was given the opportunity to share on the essence of prosperity and spirituality with The Star, a major Malaysian national newspaper. Many people believe that wealth and spirituality are at odds...
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For Chinese New Year 2018, I was given the opportunity to share on the essence of prosperity and spirituality with The Star, a major Malaysian national newspaper. Many people believe that wealth and spirituality are at odds...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Professor Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (18 October 1870 – 22 July 1966) was a prolific Japanese writer known for his translations of important Zen (Chan) and Shin (Jodo Shinshu or ‘Pure Land’) Buddhist texts. His work was instrumental in igniting widespread interest in Buddhism in the West, and was a significant catalyst...
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Buddha Shakyamuni (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Shakyamuni, Lama Tsongkhapa and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Buddha Shakyamuni (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Sangye Shakya Tupa (Tibetan) Buddha Shakyamuni is the current and historical Buddha who was born a prince in the region of Lumbini (in what is now Nepal). He left the palace, became a wandering...
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Chandrakirti (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Green Tara, Chandrakirti and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Chandrakirti (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Dawa Drakpa (Tibetan) Chandrakirti was born into a Brahmin family living in Samana, South India. At birth, he was presented to a soothsayer who prophesied that he would become a great Buddhist master when he grew up....
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Ten-Armed Kali (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Kali and Dorje Shugden Deity: Kali (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Lhamo Tromo (Tibetan) Kali is a Hindu goddess whose name means ‘she who is black’ or ‘she who is death’. However, she is also known by other epithets and has many forms. For Hindus, she embodies the very...
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Kurukulle (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Kurukulle and Dorje Shugden Deity: Kurukulle (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Rigchema (Tibetan) The sublime Kurukulle is a female deity who is red in colour. Her practice is one that invokes upon the activity of control and magnetisation. She is in dancing posture and has four arms holding a bow,...
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Six-Armed Mahakala (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Six-Armed Mahakala and Dorje Shugden Deity: Six-Armed Mahakala (English) Alternative names: Shadbhuja Mahakala (Sanskrit); Gonpo Chagdrugpa (Tibetan) Six-Armed Mahakala is an emanation of Avalokiteshvara and propitiated as the protector of the Highest Scope of the Lamrim or the Graduated Stages on the Path to Enlightenment. He is...
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Shantideva (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Shantideva and Dorje Shugden Deity: Shantideva (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Shiwa Lha (Tibetan) Shantideva was a great scholar, monk and saint from Nalanda Monastery in ancient India who was the head of over 500 pandits. Having mastered the teachings, he practised them internally, without any outward display of high...
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Dorje Shugden (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Dorje Shugden Deity: Dorje Shugden (Tibetan) Alternative name: Vajra Rudra (Sanskrit) Dorje Shugden is an emanation of the Buddha of Wisdom, Manjushri. He took the form of a Dharma Protector in order to safeguard the Buddha’s teachings, especially the important teachings on the Middle Way View. Reminiscent...
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Vishnu (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Brahma, Vishnu, Lakshmi and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Vishnu (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Khyabjuk (Tibetan) Vishnu is part of a Hindu trinity known as the ‘Trimurti’, together with Brahma and Shiva. They are said to govern the universal processes of Creation, Maintenance and Destruction respectively. Vishnu is known as the...
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Four-Faced Mahakala (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Four-Faced Mahakala with consorts and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Four-Faced Mahakala (English) Alternative names: Chaturmukha Mahakala (Sanskrit); Gonpo Shel Shi (Tibetan) Four-Faced Mahakala is a Dharma Protector associated explicitly with the Heruka Tantras and is propitiated by Heruka practitioners for spiritual protection and for the granting of material...
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Yamantaka (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Yamantaka, Kalarupa and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Yamantaka (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Vajrabhairava (Sanskrit); Shinje She (Tibetan); Dorje Jigje (Tibetan) Yamantaka or Vajrabhairava is the manifestation of Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Stainless Wisdom. From amongst the many lineages of practices to enter Tibet, two translators Ra Lotsawa and Mal Lotsawa...
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Giving in its truest sense extends beyond just pretty presents under a beautifully decorated Christmas tree but giving generously of ourselves without any agenda or expecting anything in return...
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(A Gift from Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche) सत्तरीको दशकमा, जब म बौद्ध धर्ममा आए, त्यहाँ धेरै अनुवादित पुस्तक
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Dear friends around the world, Oracular trance has played a very important role in the culture and traditions of Tibet for over 1000 years. During a trance, a specially-trained oracle takes full possession of a spiritual being. These beings can be enlightened Dharma Protectors, worldly protectors, local mountain gods, healing deities or other unseen...
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(Auspicious Mongolian Omen) हामीसँग तपाईंको लागि अर्को रोचक छोटो पोष्ट छ। तपाईंहरूलाई थाहा नै छ हामीसँग शहरमा १३ ओटा विभाग भएको केचरा छ।
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(Are You Secular or Are You Spiritual?) कहिलेकाहीँ म अनलाइनमा पढ्दछु कि मानिसहरूले घेशे केल्साङ ग्याचेको बारेमा र अन्य उत्कृष्ट प्राणीहरूको आलोचना गर्दछन् र अर्को तिर कुरा गर्ने हो भने तिनीहरू सबै अध्यात्मिक हुन र दलाई लामाले प्रदान गरिरहेका नेतृत्व र अभ्यासहरू,
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(Incense Offering to Dorje Shugden) धूपले बौद्ध धर्ममा लामो समयदेखि महत्त्वपूर्ण भूमिका खेलेको छ |
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(Ten Counterproductive Behaviors of Well-Intentioned People) दोर्जे शुग्देन अझै पनि ठूलो विवादमा छन् र यदि कसैले मलाई एक क्षणको लागि पनि चिनेको छ भने
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(The Farm of Your Mind) माननीय श्री २५ छेम रिन्पोछे हाम्रो अध्यात्मका सल्लाहकार र दोर्जे शुग्देन हाम्रो धर्मको रक्षक भइदिनुभएकोमा केचरा धेरै भाग्यमानी छ। यति महान् र श्रेष्ठ गुरूसँग यस जीवनमा हाम्रो भेट हुन पाउनु भनेको हामी कति भाग्यमानी छौं भनी बुझेर हामीले सकेसम्म हाम्रा गुरूसँग राम्रो सम्बन्ध र राम्रो समय कायम राख्ने प्रयास...
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