Dogs in Tibetan Monasteries
(By Tsem Rinpoche) I love dogs. I’ve loved dogs since I was a young boy. I love other animals too, but dogs will always have a special place in...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I love dogs. I’ve loved dogs since I was a young boy. I love other animals too, but dogs will always have a special place in...
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(詹杜固仁波切和黎国圆讲法师合撰) 亲爱的朋友们: 多杰雄登与西藏佛教萨迦传承的渊源相当久远,这是广为人知的事实。事实上,多杰雄登最初先受到萨迦派的认证和供奉,后来才成为格鲁传承中广为修持的护法。
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“Mass of Vajra Fire: Invocation of the mighty Dorje Shugden, the supreme Dharmapala of the precious teachings of Buddha Tsongkhapa” is a ritual text for the propitiation of Dorje...
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The Venerable Ajahn Chah (17 June 1918 – 16 January 1992), also known as Phra Bodhinana Thera, is considered one of the most influential and highly-revered Dharma teachers in...
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Rinpoche was well-known for his ability to accurately divine which Buddha would be the most suitable meditational deity for each person according to their individual needs, karma and affinity...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche, May 26th, 2011) For the longest time I wanted to invite a large Vajra Yogini statue into my personal residence. Decades ago I can only dream...
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关于藏传佛教格鲁派创始人宗喀巴大师的出现,佛陀在世时就曾授记:未来在佛教稍许式微之时,有这么一个人会降生,振兴其教法。在佛陀时代,一男童(宗喀巴大师的前世)向佛陀供养一串水晶念珠。
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The following is a video of a teaching I gave awhile ago during a tsog ceremony in Kechara House 1 (Now converted to Kechara Media and...
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We’re going to talk about a very controversial, very important topic, the pith of Buddhist practice, which is actually guru devotion with the teachings on how to devote oneself...
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FOUR POWERFUL TEACHINGS BY H. E. TSEM RINPOCHE. When technology advances, more people will lose interest in spirituality. This is because people look for instant gratification and superficial compliments....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David) Dear friends, It is a well-known fact that Dorje Shugden has a long history of association and practice within the Sakya School of...
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Jun 04, 2011 (By Tsem Rinpoche) Dearest Rinpoche, wish you well and in good health always. I am so happy and grateful that i am able to take...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Beautiful 17 inches Setrap Antique style invited to the office and offerings done!! Setrap is a fully enlightened Protector who has sworn to Shakyamuni to assist...
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佛教为协助我们克服日常生活中遇到的挑战提供了许多解决方案,这些挑战包括与健康有关的问题,如各种难以避免的的疾病和病症等。在这个简短的开示中,尊贵的詹杜固仁波切为我们概述了藏传佛教中一些可以帮我们自己和他人康复疗愈的方法...
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Normal medical healing focuses on the body more than the mind. What we have to do is remove the actual cause of the physical sickness, which in Buddhism all...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, I found this very useful. It’s short but very precise. If we actualize this, we let go of a lot of disturbing emotions immediately...
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In preparation for the Kechara Forest Retreat, we are planning to build many big stupas, which will bless the area and form pivotal points for circumambulation around the land....
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I thought I would make it simple and easy to remember so I came up with these to help you recall the qualities, abilities, benefits and and nature of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) As Tibetan Buddhism gains prominence in the world, so too is Tibetan art being appreciated more and more. Today, many sacred Tibetan thangkas can be found...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The grottoes are a fascinating study of the fusion of Central Asian with native Chinese forms of art, and the central gem in the necklace of...
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Tsem Rinpoche's teachings on the healing practices of White Tara and Black Garuda as spiritual remedies for outbreaks of infectious diseases
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) What a beautiful picture and message from Paris (Jamie Khoo) sent me just a half hour ago. Gyabshi is a special puja for removing obstacles to...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Shrines in the locality honor the first Uighur ruler to convert to Islam, as well as depict a local version of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus.
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(By Pastor David Lai and Tsem Rinpoche) The great Buton Rinchen Drub (1290 – 1364) was one of the most erudite of scholars of Tibet. He was a prolific translator...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Whether we are working in a place for the next 1 year, 10 years, 100 years isn’t the issue. The issue is while we are...
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I had the great fortune to hear about a modern-day yogi-ascetic master from my friend Gen Phuntsok. This master's name was simply Gen Nyima...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In a typical Thai Buddhist family, every male aged 20 and above is expected to be ordained as a monk for a period of time. It...
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Remember the days of SMS? We’ve mostly stopped using it now, but long before we had WhatsApp, Telegram, etc., Rinpoche would send his students and friends teachings and advice...
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These mystic formulas carry a tremendous blessing power and exist in all religions. Anyone who recites these holy words can tap into their source and connect with sacred energy...
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Question Series for my Fb Friends: Where does the three sacred eyes of Vajra Yogini look at and why? Who can explain clearly? Tsem Rinpoche (I thought I will...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I wanted to share this quick picture with everyone. The 12ft Tsongkapa (Je Tse-Zinma) has arrived to our new Kechara Gompa (Prayer Hall)! This form of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Special guest speakers including Dr. Phang Cheng Kar, International Healer Anne Jones and Brahmacharini Nishita Chaitanya of Chinmaya Seva Ashram-Hong Kong has taken time from their...
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Kepada sahabat di seluruh dunia, Ketika saya sedang berbaring karena migrain, suatu kesadaran datang dalam diri, masa kecil, cara saya melihat kejadian-kejadian dalam hidup dan setiap orang yang saya...
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Bodhgaya is the centre of many sacred sites. Chief among these is the Mahabodhi Temple Complex where Prince Siddhartha became enlightened and where Buddhism began more than two millennia...
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One of the earliest modern academic references to Dorje Shugden can be found in Professor L. Austine Waddell’s description of Pemayangtse Monastery in Sikkim...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) My personal assistant Pastor Loh Seng Piow first started my YouTube channel back on October 31, 2006. At that time I didn’t think too much of...
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(UPDATED WITH VIDEO TRANSCRIPT). (By Tsem Rinpoche) I gave the initiation of Buddha Amitayus to a very ill young boy and group of people. I mentioned that day, those...
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A little known fact about Bhutan’s Buddhist tradition is that notable Drukpa Kagyu masters of this nation advocated the practice of the Protector Dorje Shugden...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China has been a treasure house of art, spanning over 1,000 years. In each and every one of its 492...
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Amitayus, Buddha Kehidupan Abadi, sering disamakan dengan Amitabha, Buddha Cahaya Abadi. Beliau tinggal di kediaman ilahi Sukhavati, atau juga dikenal sebagai Tanah Suci Barat. Populer di Asia Timur, pengabdi...
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I heard someone saying that if we look close enough the "Me" that exists in the morning is not the same “Me” that goes to sleep at night
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I received this article in the mail and it caught my attention. These days it is very rare to hear the account of practitioners with attainments,...
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Wesak is a big event in the worldwide Buddhist calendar! In view of the recent Wesak festivities, just how did the other countries around the world celebrate this day?...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Stella Cheang) In Buddhism, holy relics refer to the physical remains or the personal effects of Buddha Shakyamuni preserved for the purposes of veneration. Relics...
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Dear friends around the world, I have loved Manjushri for as long as I can remember. His is one of the practices that I always recommend to people because...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Some of us serve our selfish endeavours, some of us serve others and some of us don’t serve at all. Whatever the case is at this...
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Each time I sit down to write and assemble my thoughts together, I will await the important moment when my precious Guru H.E. Tsem Rinpoche opens up my mind...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, I tweet daily and about different subjects. I don’t particularly enjoy social media, but it is a necessity to bring about more teachings and...
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Nov 28, 2012 (By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, I wanted to share this videos with you for the longest time and happy I can do so now. Learn, ponder...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) As Mumu has been ill, I decided to have pujas done for him and release of life. The merits dedicated to my little Mumu’s health and...
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During the 2015 Gelug Conference, the Dalai Lama claimed that Dharma Protector Setrap had given mistaken prophecies to Dagyab Rinpoche as well as monks from Minyak Khangtsen of Drepung...
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During the 7th century Tang Dynasty of China (618 – 907 CE), there arose a great Buddhist master named Xuanzang (602 – 664 CE), who became a famed monk,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Those who have known me for some time would know that I truly enjoy giving gifts to others to help them in their Dharma practice, and...
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Vajra Yogini statues are all created and painted in-house in Kechara (By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, Kechara Forest Retreat is designed to be a direct portal to Vajra Yogini’s...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Growing up, there were many women who showed me real loving kindness… From Kuan Mama who showered me with so much care and love when it...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I posted regarding ‘psychic kids’ and Patricia posed some interesting questions which I have answered. With respect to Patricia, I am posting it here as...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) These days, whenever we read or listen to the news, we often hear about religious tensions and conflicts in various countries around the world. Whether it...
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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
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~ 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."
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"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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