For those who hold vows
(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Pastors Moh Mei, Jean Ai, Shin, Yek Yee, As spiritual aspirants (monks/nuns to be, Pastors representing the dharma, lay students who have taken refuge vows...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Pastors Moh Mei, Jean Ai, Shin, Yek Yee, As spiritual aspirants (monks/nuns to be, Pastors representing the dharma, lay students who have taken refuge vows...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, If you do not have this initiation, please do not proceed to read. To study higher tantra such as Yamantaka cycle...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, This post is just for those who have been initiated by a teacher. Otherwise please do not read or continue....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, I would like to share a teaching on reinforcing our delusions. It will help you understand how we trick ourselves into...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, I thought this is a helpful and short extract from Dr. Berzin that might benefit your thoughts and dharma practice. This is reproduced here...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, I came across this article and thought to bring it here for strictly educational purposes. I think it is a nice...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Vajrayogini is a female Buddha and she is also one of the most sacred and profound of practices within H.E. the 25th Tsem Rinpoche’s lineage. Kyabje...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) As a student within the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, it is important for us to learn as much as we can about the founder of...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, The Buddhas’ compassion can manifest as animate and inanimate objects. The purpose of a Buddha to emanate is to bring benefit to others both big and ‘small’. This special emanation as Janguli is very interesting and fasci...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I’ve had a strong and consistent interest in the famous Buddha of Kamakura or Daibutsu in Japanese. I personally like Japanese culture, landscape and the country...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear students and friends, As Buddhists, incense is a common item on our altar. We use it to purify offerings before we present it to the...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) What really matters at the precise moment? When is it your turn? Any day now most likely. None of what you believed, said, thought, eaten, travelled,...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche, Pastor David and Pastor Adeline) On 6 December 2015, Pastor David Lai gave a Dharma talk and workshop on the topic “Mandala Offerings & Dharma Attitude” in Kechara House. A total of 71 people attended the talk and listened very attentively as Pastor David...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) When I was 15 years old and still living in Howell, New Jersey, I found out that H.H. the Dalai Lama would be visiting Wisconsin to...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In the language of ancient India (Sanskrit), Tara literally means ‘Savioress’. She is a female Buddha with a particularly long history of being worshipped by many...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Li Kheng) “Why do you Tibetan Buddhists have this Guru syndrome whereby you emphasise so much on your teacher?”. I often hear this judgmental statement...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Jean Ai) The most obvious benefit of being in close proximity with Rinpoche is the Dharma that we receive. The Lama teaches using all...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) If you look at the influential lamas of today who are doing great works around the world, it would be safe to say all of them...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David) www.davidlai.me A month ago, I was with Tsem Rinpoche and a bunch of other people in a car. In a conversation about China,...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) Thank you so much Pastor Shin, Beatrix, Pastor David, Abby, Pastor Lanse, Pastor Jean Ai and a few others for working these few days on getting the Manjushri post out. Thank you for having it translated into Chinese so many more can practice this sacred Manjushri. I know...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Abby) 克切拉禅修林首个中文佛法讲座——《不知死,焉知生?》终于在2015年11月14日的下午五时圆满结束!
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Vajrayogini is well known to have emanated within the Himalayan regions of Nepal, Tibet, Mongolia and even China. According to Buddha Shakyamuni, as years progressively become more distant from the time when the Buddha was alive, the “effectiveness” of the Tantras will...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) One of my students came across the inspiring story below and shared it with me. It is about how a Buddhist practitioner had a revelatory experience which increased his/her faith in the Dharma. As it was originally written in Chinese, I had it translated into English for ...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Admin) 7 November 2015 was an important day in the history of Kechara. This day marked the first of a series of Dharma talks by...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The abbot, tantric master, Vidyadhara, pandit and Vinaya holder. I place his picture here so all of you can be blessed for seeing him and hearing...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, Yamantaka or Vajrabhairava is practiced within the Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu and Gelug schools. More prominently in Sakya and held as a supreme golden tantra within...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, I found this on the net and found it very interesting. I have shared it here as the person did interesting research. Please do...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Li Kheng) Meditation = sitting with a still mind and body in a quiet place with the sunset as your backdrop and the sound of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In order to make the holy Dharma grow we need to have more inter-center (at our respective countries) communications, support and harmony. For example if one...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Everyone, Your questions are valid and well thought out..I am glad you are contemplating. Ghantapa the ‘monk’ had a consort but that doesn’t mean I...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear all, I gave a Dharma talk to a few of my students in my residence a while ago and I thought I’d share this on...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) E = MC2 Enlightenment equals Motivation times the presence of Consciousness squared. Whenever my motivation starts to flag, I remember the...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) Breaking samaya to the guru is very serious setback for our spiritual practice, for the growth of our mind and in general our overall peace. As the days pass by it will seem like nothing is happening, but we will see our attachments grow, anger grows and our distance to ...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, Extensive research and translations have been done on this incredible female devotee of Lord Buddha. Take your time to study up on her. We have arranged two translated texts from two Tibetan sources on her great deeds. May this inspire you very much as it d...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Religion is just a label. It is the teachings of the religion that help nurture our innate goodness. Therefore I have always encouraged people of different backgrounds...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear everyone, Cindy Bird went through hardship and confusion in her spiritual journey, just like many of us have and perhaps are experiencing right now. However,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, Over two decades ago I was in Gaden Shartse Monastery and I had a vivid dream. The dream was interesting because I...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) As the world evolves and advances, scientists are able to provide more and more physical evidence that certain spiritual practices such as meditation bring tremendous benefit...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Suzan and her husband during the wedding ceremony. Chinese have a unique custom. The bride should wear red during the wedding as red denotes wealth, prosperity, good luck, and growth. I was...
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An expression of your Compassion: A teaching by H.E. Tsem Rinpoche Tsem Rinpoche gave a really lovely teaching to a few of us yesterday about the significance of doing...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Never say “I CAN’T change”, never say “It’s TOO LATE to change”, because when you say it you are thinking it, when you are thinking it,...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) What is hardship? Is there really a definitive way of classifying a certain situation as hardship? What may be difficult for you and I may not be a problem for another person. I have been a Dharma teacher for more than 25 years and during this time, I’ve encountere...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) His Holiness Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche was one of the most famous, sought-after and extremely powerful teachers of recent times in Tibet. Pabongka Rinpoche comes from a long line of incarnations stemming back to the tutors of the emperors of China, such as his incarnation...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dorje Shugden in our latest private 2nd trance in Kechara Forest Retreat said clearly that working for dharma is very good. Working for Kechara is very...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear students and friends, Many years ago, I spoke briefly about Wealth Vases and Wealth Boxes (Wealth Cabinets or Yangkham), and at that time I mentioned...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Everything in life has false dualistic views. If we choose to enter the door of dualism, then we get hurt, disappointed, and bitter in the end....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Twenty-Seven Verses On Mind Training Je Tsongkapa (1357-1419) 1 ) With body, speech, and mind fully aligned, I prostrate fervently before those rare beings, who...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) We believe sponsoring the Dharma in anyway has many benefits. Some of the benefits are: One will understand easier the subject you are making available to...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The Praise to Mañjuśrī ༄༅། །དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཡོན་ཏན་བཟང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟོད་པ། ། The Praise to Mañjuśrī: Glorious Wisdom’s Excellent Qualities རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། །ཤྲཱི་ཛྙཱ་ན་གུ་ཎ་བྷ་དྲ་ནཱ་མསྟུ་སྟི། ། In the language of India: śrī jñāna guṇa bhadra nāma stuti བོད་སྐད་དུ། །དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཡོན་...
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When H.E. Tsem Rinpoche first arrived in Malaysia, it was very difficult to find beautiful spiritual objects of high quality. At the time, there were very few places online...
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Feb 5, 2013 Dear friends, I thought I give a short video talk on change and how to integrate dharma into our lives now and immediately. We like to...
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