This is what was happening in one day in Kechara. I thought it would be interesting to share the updates and pictures. Our members are indeed very busy with all types of dharma works. Tsem Rinpoche   *********   Dear Rinpoche, all Kecharians and friends, Today is a happening day for Kechara Forest Retreat...

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Dear friends around the world, This is so refreshing, so needed and so timely. We need more of this between all religious leaders and followers. Often times we can hear one teacher of a religion criticizing followers of another religion or their religion itself. They do their best to convert others. This religious supremacy...

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What were you doing when you were eight-years-old? Most of us probably spent it having fun without a care in the world, but this special boy, Christian McPhilamy, grew his hair long over a span of two-and-a-half years so that he could donate it to children with cancer. What a kind child! Some may...

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Dear Friends around the world, I try to always share stories and pictures that inspire me to be a better person. My blog team and I do spend a lot of time to ‘come across’ these stories to share with you. I do not hope for any gain except to enrich your lives as it does mine....

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I thought I would share the beautiful burst of colors, health and good things for your body and health. One of my all time favorite is tomato. I can have it daily. Very healthy, beautiful and makes nice gifts too. Also they are super good for you. Take a good read please. I hope this...

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  Dear friends, This article is very practical and helpful. I respectfully reproduced it here solely with the intent it will benefit others. I thank Ms. Patricia Seeley for her compassionate work and her writings. She makes the most important passage in our lives more easier to deal with for the ordinary lay person. Both...

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I’ve always said that if I was born earlier, I would most probably join the hippie movement in America. I’ve always liked how free-spirited the hippies were, how they embraced nature, and how they lived their lives undisturbed by the rush for money, power and fame. I like how they lived their lives in...

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  (By Tsem Rinpoche) In life after life since the time of the historical Buddha you have incarnated in a string of scholars, masters and yogis with the express wish to liberate others from sufferings. Your many emanations and incarnations are both seen and unseen. Common and uncommon in Dharmakhaya, Sambhogakhaya and Nirmanakaya forms...

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  Transcript (edited): In October or November of 1987, around that time, I arrived in New Delhi from the United States. I was 22 years old and I had never been to India so it was a mighty culture shock for me in all aspects of that word. Anyway, I arrived in Delhi and...

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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends I care about, Try to make the tormas big as usual the way it’s done daily, but much more refined and symmetrical also. Not bulgy looking. The size we do daily is very good. Just more refined. Offer the best tormas with best ingredients to the holy Buddhas daily.This...

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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear students and friends, In Buddhism, there are various practices that we can engage in to help remove obstacles and receive the conditions that we need in order to pursue our path to enlightenment. Being in samsara, we are subjected to and influenced by certain rules that are not within our...

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I have been blogging about animals ever since I started this blog to raise awareness on showing kindness and compassion to every single living being

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I lived in a family that was Mongolian and my Mongolian stepmother in Howell, New Jersey was very religious and at the same time, extremely superstitious. Every Mongolian household in Howell – and there were a couple of hundred of us – would have a Buddhist shrine room or shrine area in their homes. That means...

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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, I found this to be interesting. Obviously people have had attachments to the body which causes us to take up actions that bind us for a lifetime pulling us away sometimes from higher spiritual attainments. We think we can do something for a while, but it...

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I recently received wonderful news that one of our departments, Kechara Blooms, was nominated as one of the top twelve florists in Malaysia! Kechara Blooms was established in 2011 and their range of services includes events and wedding arrangements, floral stylings, designs and displays, etc. Many of my students make offerings of flowers through...

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Five students of mine have recently informed me that they have completed their 100,000 prostration retreat. I am so happy for them.

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(By Tsem Rinpoche)   When Buddhas give teachings, it is specifically to benefit the listener. When the listener applies the teachings of the Buddhas and becomes enlightened, that person becomes another Buddha, and that person may teach others and so on. Therefore the number of Buddhas in existence is limitless, and the number of...

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All sentient beings deserve the right to lead peaceful lives, in which they are not exploited for another’s benefit or entertainment. Unfortunately, beings in the animal kingdom have often been the victims of such exploitation… from being skinned alive for their fur, to being the subject of experiments, slaughtered for food, and even tortured...

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Dear students and friends, We design our homes to be safe havens… a place where our loved ones and ourselves can feel safe and protected, a place where we are sheltered from harm, a place where we nurture and care for those who are close to us, a place in which we invest the...

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I would very much like everyone to take 10 minutes off from your busy lives to read this article and contemplate on it. Taking care of animals is never an easy job because it requires tremendous effort and compassion to sustain one’s good work… but for animal lovers, taking care of animals is an...

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