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It is common knowledge that public animal shelters often face lack of facilities, space and funding to support the amount of dogs they capture from the streets, which result...
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It is common knowledge that public animal shelters often face lack of facilities, space and funding to support the amount of dogs they capture from the streets, which result...
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Dear friends around the world, I have visited Bali with my dharma friends years back to look for outdoor Buddhas. But I didn’t see any of these places while...
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The artist that did this is ONE OF THE BEST I’ve ever seen. The detailing, colors, shading, proportions, pose, angle, shift of the body, and general appearance are excellent.....
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A few months ago, Rinpoche suggested that I take my father on a pilgrimage trip along with 15 other pilgrims to Bodhgaya.
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Last year when we started Kechara Forest Retreat, we had nothing on our land except for two slabs of cement on the ground. I wanted to live in KFR...
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I recently stumbled upon a Nicholas Roerich Musuem website and I was very very amazed by his collection of art works. I am so surprised to see spiritual paintings...
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I saw these movies around ten years back. I didn’t think much when I first saw them as everything was without many words but upon watching them closer, I...
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Oct 15, 2011 (By Tsem Rinpoche) The pictures above are the Fasting Buddhas in Tsem Ladrang……my home. I invited a 3 ft Fasting Buddha home today and on...
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I recently read the news about how Pakistan has massive ancient Buddhist sites and archaeologists are uncovering more everyday!
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Dear students and friends, Take a look at the pictures below of Serthar Buddhist Institute in China! Spiritual aspirants actually built their houses around the monastery where they learn...
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Dear JP, It is amazing. You are a NATURAL interior/exterior designer. Your sense of depths, color, texture, ambience, art and it all matches a person’s personality whom you are...
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Watch “The Magical Dukkar Apartments” Watch “The Tour of Dukkar Apartments by Moh Mei” Since April 2012, the Kechara Forest Retreat has been a...
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What a beautiful article you must read and share. I read also after Kuan Yin was installed, Macau’s economy improved. Fantastic. Buddha images are known to improve and protect...
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Pemako is located in southeast Tibet. In Tibetan, the word "Pemako" means "Lotus Array" or "Lotus of Great Bliss". It is a land that intrigues many Western explorers as...
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The Yong He Gong Lama Temple, also known as the 'Palace of Peace and Harmony Lama Temple', is a temple and monastery of the Gelug (Yellow Hat) School of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The Buddhist grottoes at Baodingshan, 20km northeast of Dazu, were carved during the Southern Song Dynasty under the direction of monk Zhao Zhifeng between 1179 and...
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October 23, 2010 This is not meant to shock, or scare you or frighten you. It is to enlighten you on a Cultural practice for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. This...
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Frederick Law on Jan 25, 2013 at 4:38 am Dear Rinpoche, Good Morning ? I googled the web for this beautiful photo, the location of where the Buddha is...
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I love this type of asthetics. You must see what I mean. Read below and see the pictures. Houses like this really are my style. Simple, straightforward and surrounded...
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Last Saturday, a few of my students attended an event in Shalini Ganendra Fine Art Gallery. Shalini is a good friend of Liaison Sharon Saw.
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Stepping into the gardens of the shrine of the Bab is like entering a hallucination. The rise in steps all the way up the mountainside above Haifa’s downtown, and...
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I have always been interested in architecture especially those that blends in with nature. Below is an article extracted from the magazine, modernism. The magazine features an existing architectural...
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One of my students just shared with me this beautiful underwater restaurant in the Maldives. The restaurant is called 'Ithaa', and it is built 5 meters (16 feet) below...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Today, my personal attendant, Liaison Pastor Loh Seng Piow showed me a few pictures of Fo Guang Shan monastery in Taiwan. I have heard about this...
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It is an article about the discovery of a statue of Vaisravana, a Buddhist Deity made from meteorite. The statue was found by a Nazi expedition in 1936, predicted...
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Below are interesting pictures that were emailed to me by a student of mine, Kwok Wai. They are photographs taken from around the world of beautiful landscapes, architectures and...
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One of my students, Liaison Jamie Khoo was approached by Malaysian Airlines to write two articles on the hidden treasures of Nepal.
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Dear friends, I love this type of setting. I love this type of room, where you are indoors but as if you are living outdoors. I wanted to share...
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I have extracted all the write ups, information, pictures, paintings from Mr.Ori Carino's website. I did this is because I would like more people to know of this wonderful...
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A few months ago, one of my close student's father had a medical condition that was quite life threatening. Sharon, a loving mother, daughter and one of my loyal...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The scenery here appears to resemble one of the Buddha's True Land paradises, with its tall towers and graceful pavilions...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The Beishan Grottoes are part of a series of rock carvings found in the Dazu County located on steep hillsides in the Chongqing Municipality in China....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Several months back, I painted a Dzambala for my long time student Girlie Ooi as a special gift for all her hard work and devotion towards...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear everyone, I have loved beautiful art both spiritual and secular since I was very young. I really like Tibetan Buddhist iconography. It is so meaningful...
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Generally stupas are the physical representations of a Buddha’s mind. They come in 8 main shapes. Each shape is equal to the representation of Buddha’s mind. They can contain:...
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I received an email about this yacht with a man made island built on it and thought it was rather amazing. The yacht was built to cater for billionaires...
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I wanted to share this amazing pictures from all around the world. It's really interesting to see how creative nature and modern architecture can be...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Pu Tuo Shan, also known as Mount Putuo is located on a island southeast of Shanghai, in the Zhoushan prefecture of Zhejiang province in China.
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Bordered on the Yangtze River in the north and overlooked the Yeloow Mountain in the south, it covers an area of 100 square kilometers southwest of...
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The lost cities of the world were all once upon a time, great cities that belonged to great civilizations. But despite all their glory and power, none of these...
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Crescent H Ranch Jackson Wyoming United States Jackson Hole Real Estate Associates, LLC About this Property Tract 16 and Tract 10, in the heart of Crescent H Ranch,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Fanjing Mountain, 2,572 meters above sea level, is situated in southwestern China's Guizhou Province. Having the best preserved ecological system, it has been designated as a...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Recently, BBC aired a fascinating documentary about the travels of historian Bettany Hughes. In this documentary, she introduces BBC viewers to the seven wonders of the...
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H.E. Tsem Rinpoche Visits Wat Pho Thailand! I love Wat Po and have visited numerous times. I use to come here in the quiet of the day to...
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H.E. Tsem Rinpoche Visits Thailand’s Amphawa Floating Market! I took a group of Kecharians with me to visit Amphawa Floating Market…Once you park, you walk through a whole...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I came across this very beautiful and exquisite pictorial biography of Buddha Sakyamuni in a book produced and printed by the Dhammikarama Burmese Buddhist Temple in...
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This is one of the most coolest houses I have ever seen. I love it...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Daibutsu (or 大佛/大仏) means ‘Great Buddha’ or ‘giant Buddha’ in Japanese. It can also be used informally to refer to a big Buddha statue. One such...
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Dear friends, I went a few days ago with Pastor Loh Seng Piow, Justin Ripley, Ethan and Bryan to CHIN SWEE TEMPLE in Genting Highlands which is about one...
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In 1987, the China Disabled People’s Performing Arts Troupe was formed. They are a professional performing arts troupe made up of 106 performers with hearing and/or visual impairments or...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) As a child and teenager, I use to spend hundreds of hours painting the Buddhas, mountains, caves, forests and meditators in forests… I loved painting them....
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For most of us, it is a daily battle simply to find the time and motivation to meditate and to do our practice. Then, there are individuals like Liao...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Kechara Sarawati Arts Dept’s Pat working hard on a 2ft Vajra Yogini I placed an order for. It’s the first of it’s kind. We didn’t have...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Few aspects of Man’s nature showcase his ingenuity more clearly than his talent for cruelty and conflict. Fortunately, another of those aspects is his capacity for...
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Kechara Discovery (KD) has been working on their very first clay statue! Previously, they specialized in making Buddha images made of bronze and copper. Now they are starting to...
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Millions of dogs and other small animals killed, mummified and entombed in dark catacombs. Who would do such a thing? Why, animal lovers, of course. It is not a...
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Here are some pictures I found of the different ethnic groups in China, and I thought it would be interesting to share. I love the study of people, their...
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H.H. Kyabje Zong Rinpoche Explains Dorje Shugden Initiation and Benefits (With English Subtitles)
Dear everyone... This is a good condensed talk I gave on Guru Yoga of Tsongkapa. This is the one you should share with others when they are interested in a not too lengthy explanation. It is the perfect practice for everyone who wants simplicity yet effective blessings. You can share this with more people, it will be good.
~ Tsem Rinpoche
Powerful Dorje Shugden's mantras
Tsem Rinpoche on National TV's Wesak Day Documentary
'The Promise' book launch featured on NTV7 Primetime
"If you say you don't have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat?"
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"What makes us good humans is not how we abuse animals, but how much we allow them to live and be happy freely."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"We need another and wiser and perhaps a more mythical concept of animals.... We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complex than ours they moved finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."
~ Henry Beston, The Outermost House
"Not eating animals is only unnatural when we are not used to it."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"We may encounter defeat, but we must not be defeated."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"What you are today, is the choice you made yesterday."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"You think you can choose your life? What an ego trip!"
~ Lama Yeshe
"If TODAY you are dissatisfied, you must make the changes to create different results for TOMORROW."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
“Meditating on Dorje Shugden while reciting his mantra will open the gateways to higher dimensions, blessings and protection.”
~ Tsem Rinpoche
“If one does the recitation of the Lama Tsongkhapa guru yoga prayer for even one month using one of the visualizations for great or clear or quick wisdom, one will definitely see development of that wisdom. It is proved by experience. There is no doubt that by doing the Lama Tsongkhapa guru yoga practice one can meet Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings from life to life. And furthermore, it gives one the opportunity to be born in the pure realm of Lama Tsongkhapa, Tushita, whenever death happens.”
~ Pabongkha Rinpoche
"I was 18 years old in 1983. That was a very special year as I met His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche and received innumerable precious teachings and empowerments from Him at Thubten Dhargye Ling Centre in Los Angeles, California. It was the best time of my life. A time that seems so magical and surreal to me. Kyabje Zong Rinpoche is Heruka Buddha and I met Heruka."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"If being me offends you, maybe I'm not the problem."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Never abandon your spiritual teacher no matter how many inner obstacles you need to overcome."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Actions to force something to be permanent makes all the karmas arise."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"The dharma is not easy to listen to… because some people take it as criticism. But Dharma should not be just feel good only for the moment but for deeper contemplations."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Whether we do work and suffer but for others or we do work and suffer for ourselves, either way we have to suffer. That is the nature of samsara. So let us suffer for others and then suffering has meaning."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Those who really want the dharma to grow within themselves and to grow for others should never fear hard work, timing, difficulties, struggles, disappointments because it is for a good cause. Working for Dharma is not a prison or work, but it is purely spiritual practice. It is purely collection of merit and purification. Actually not doing dharma work is the real prison."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"His Holiness Zong Rinpoche stressed the need to continue to practice even when we come up against obstacles, and that we should continually review our progress. He stated that a happy, luxurious life was like a good dream, and that obstacles and difficulties were like a bad dream. We should give them no significance, but simply carry on working towards real, everlasting happiness."
~ Ngala ’ö-Dzin Tridral
"Things in samsara always go wrong. That's its nature. Don't be surprised."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Knowledge never quenches the thirst, only application."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"I pity men who occupy themselves exclusively with the transitory in things and lose themselves in the study of what is perishable, since we are here for this very end-that we may make the perishable imperishable, which we can do only after we have learned how to approach both."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Money amplifies negative characteristics and that can cause problems. To walk away from that was actually very easy. I didn't even consider it."
~ Angeline Francis Khoo
"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud."
~ Carl Jung
"There is a devil there is no doubt, but is he trying to get into us or trying to get out?"
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"If you love someone, show it by being honest, respectful & honorable with them."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"If I can just be the way I am & you the way you are & we accept each other, world peace is near."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"I am Asian, you are some other beautiful color. Together we make diversity so beautiful."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"It's amazing how some people have never met me or know who I am, but based on a few things they read here & there & rumours, they have formulated a new personality for me & all the things I've never done they passionately speak about....I find it funny and entertaining now. I guess we can't spend our lives fighting rumours...we just have to work hard & then rumours get proven wrong on it's own as a by product. No point explaining repeatedly. Just do our work & show results!!"
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"There's a difference between patience and laziness. Patience comes from respect while laziness from disrespect of others."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Although outwardly we have so much, we have so many conveniences, inwardly we have become more unhappy, so, acquisition is not the secret to happiness. The more we get, the more we have, the more unhappy we become."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Before we experience any pain, we already had a fixed view of how things should be. When the experience we encounter contradicts our views, then the pain arises. The pain arises due to our fixed views not so much the experience itself. So the secret is changing the views. Re-educating ourselves on our views."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"You know since very young, for better or worse, I always did the things that others told me not to do. I wasn't really good at following the rules. Even now with how I share Dharma and my practice, I just do it the way I think it should be done but I do it sincerely. Not what others tell me what I can and can't do."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Love me or hate me, both are in my favor... If you love me, I'll always be in your heart... If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind."
~ William Shakespeare
"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous or honest."
~ Maya Angelou
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