Medicine Buddha Teaching at Turkey Swamp
(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, A friend of mine has been ill. He works within Kechara and is a very kind person. He has many friends who wishes to...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, A friend of mine has been ill. He works within Kechara and is a very kind person. He has many friends who wishes to...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Lama Tsongkhapa has written voluminous, tremendous amount of work and it is still existing today. And the reason why so many people have faith in Lama...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends and seekers of Wisdom, I truly want from the depths of my heart everyone to gain wisdom, great memory, understanding of dharma that cuts...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) TSONGKHAPA explained by Tsem Rinpoche (1 of 2) Making a Lama Tsongkhapa iconography is very powerful. You can call him Lama Tsongkhapa, Tsongkhapa or Je Rinpoche....
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Jul 1, 2011 Part 1 (27 June 2011) Part 2 (29 June 2011) (By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, Recently I gave teachings on the day of the LAM RIM...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Rinpoche, I had a couple more questions. Could you please explain the benefits of wearing a Buddhist pendant such as Avalokiteshvara, also I was wondering...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Pujas (prayer sessions / offerings) have a lot of significance… It is not just a prayer that we make when we need help with something or...
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Huge Statue of Luang Phor Thuad I didn’t know about this place at all. We found this place by total accident and glad we did. Huge statue of Luang Phor Thuad/Long Por Thuat (龙普托) in Thailand, along the way from Bangkok to Wat Muang in Ang Thong Province. I was amazed when I looked out t...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, Look at this unique interior décor of this restaurant. It is really stunning. The enclaves for electric candles behind are beautiful. The pebble table on...
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Tsem Rinpoche Visits Famous Penang Burmese Temple! I visited the famous Penang Burmese Buddhist temple a few days ago again. I loved this temple and so many new...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, I came across this wonderful quote and decided to give a short explanation on it. I hope it bring some clarity to our minds...
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Opening Eye Chenrezig (Migchey Chenrezig) (By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, Due to the ultimate source of our karma ripening, we can experience many problems arising from environment, people, surroundings,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Every Monastery has their specially appointed Dharma protector in all Tibetan Monastic institutions For Example: Gaden Shartse Monastery – Protector Setrap Gaden Jangtze Monastery – Pelden...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) When we are afraid to express gratitude, we don’t want to reveal what has been done for us and so we don’t have to ‘pay back’...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The Royal Song Of Saraha I bow down to noble Manjushri I bow down to Him who has conquered the finite. 1 As calm water lashed...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Rinpoche, My mother’s eyes open today and she is following movements in the room. Hands and feet still cold. Nurse said it’s the medication they...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I like to visit Hong Kong from time to time . There is nothing really much in the city for someone like me, except on Hollywood...
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(译文请往下阅读) An excellent teaching by H.E. Tsem Rinpoche on the power of MANTRA which will blow our mind away, we never know that MANTRA can be so effective in changing our mental state before this, let Rinpoche reveal it to us…MUST WATCH!! 詹杜固仁波切开示心咒的力量。从来不知道短短的咒语竟然会有如此大的威力,且听仁波切的精彩阐释,必看!!(附中文口译) &nbs...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) 有些人,当他们想向你索取某些东西而不得逞时,就会变得愤怒。他们从来不曾付出努力来争取自己所要的东西。他们只想要直接从你身上取得那些东西,或干脆让你帮他们完成那些工作...
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In October 2008, I led a group of 61 pilgrims to Nepal to visit the holy power places in Kathmandu valley. During the pilgrimage, I gave many Dharma talks...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear students and friends, I would like to share with you a talk I gave some time ago about khatas. Many people who are new to...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) When we deceive our guru, we will separate from our guru, or we will see our guru’s actions as wrong, or we will illicit wrathful actions...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I am just an ordinary practitioner: “Some of the Lamas, teachers and practitioners are ignorant. Because they want to eat meat and drink alcohol, they say...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) “So, every time, every day, whenever one completes one advice of guru, every time you become closer to enlightenment. Every time, every day, one advice get’s...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Whenever we let anger control our actions, it’s a clear indication selfish mind is predominant. ~Tsem Rinpoche Being selfish is the core of many of our...
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I thought I would reproduce the question and answer here as it might benefit others also. I thank Mavis for his question. Tsem Rinpoche Dear Rinpoche, Your...
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Amphawa Floating market is 1 hour from Bangkok with no traffic. With traffic it will take you 2 hours. It is a must visit place for anyone visiting Bangkok.
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Today, August 8, 2011 I visited three large Buddhist temples in Kelantan, East Malaysia. They are Wat Machimmaram, Wat Pikulthong and Wat Photivihan. Wat means Temple or place of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Friends, This is very short, precise and to the point. I found on FB and posted it here for your benefit please. Everyone should read...
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A few months ago on my blog chat, I was online and chatting with two of my students. On the chat, I gave a personal instruction for them to...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Two weeks ago, I instructed one of my students over blog chat to do a write up on guru devotion as she understood very well what...
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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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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, It’s important to understand what our religious directions are. What we should expect out of religion and what we should be expected to do if we accept a religion. There is nothing judgemental here or I am making criterias, but simply expressing how I feel we ...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Tilopa’s Mahamudra Instruction to Naropa in Twenty Eight Verses was transmitted by the Great Guru and Mahasiddha Tilopa to the Kashmiri Pandit, Sage and Siddha, Naropa,...
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I recently watched a video on youtube entitled 'Hardest thing about being Buddhist'. I find it entertaining as to how others think being a Buddhist is hard. In my...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Phng Li Kim, CEO of Kechara Media & Publications) * For the Chinese translation, click here. In 2006, His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche led 63 pilgrims...
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On March 15-24, a 9 foot tall (2.6 meters) “Jade Buddha for Universal Peace” will be arriving in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! The Buddha Shakyamuni statue was carved out from...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, There are just some people in the world who have great compassion and live their lives according to this compassion. They harm no one,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In a recent exclusive interview with Telegraph UK, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama mentioned he gets angry quite often..
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The contents below about His Holiness Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche were extracted from Wikipedia. I want to share with my blog readers more about Pabongka Rinpoche.
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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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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The 84 Mahasiddhas represent all those who have, within a single lifetime, attained direct realization of the Buddha’s teachings. Their life stories represent what they have...
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Aug 16, 2010 (By Tsem Rinpoche) I recently found out from Jamie that her mother, Datin Jeniffer Khoo, who has been very instrumental in taking care of rescued puppies/...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) A few days ago, a few students and I went to Viva Home for a shopping trip. I was browsing around a few Oriental shops and...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) This Manjushri tsatsa just arrived today. It contains part of the ashes of my student and friend Mr Justin Ripley who passed away due to heart failure not too long ago. Part of his ashes were consecrated and mixed with clay and other holy objects and made into Manjushri tsatsas by...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) (Beautiful painting by talented Keith Dowman) This Mahasiddha is Kukkuripa (the dog lover). He loved dogs so much. When he meditated in the cave he had...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I love interfaith harmony. It is my hope these videos so beautifully produced will contribute to interfaith harmony, understanding and peace among all living beings.
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, I came across this and was extremely inspired. Here’s a Gebchak nunnery with 400 nuns (largest in Tibet) that are focused on life long retreats...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) THIS IS A INTERESTING SHOW ON BUDDHA’S LIFE STORY. Adults would find it refreshing, and children would find it a nice way to learn. Please take...
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May 13, 2012 (By Tsem Rinpoche) I like very much for students to give Dharma talks to other students. After all Dharma is to be learned, shared and realized by both teacher and student. So teaching dharma helps both the teacher and student. Take a look at these three who speaks are spe...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The other night I was with Paris, David and a few others and I gave them a talk on how when we have something now, we...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, I was instructed by one of my teachers years ago to do a book on my biography. I didn’t want to do it. I...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) (译文请往下阅读) Dear everyone, students, members and friends, I have been thinking of this for quite a while, and from all aspects. An initiation whether it is lower tantra or higher tantra, specifically plants the seed of enlightenment in the disciple’s mind-stream, so that when they d...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Yesterday was Wesak Day. In celebration of the day when Buddha was born, gained enlightenment and entered clear light; many countries declared Wesak as a public...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, This is wonderful and auspicious news for our beloved Justin Ripley. 1. As you know I have requested a beautiful Manjushri statue to be...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, I was on blog chat the other day. I starting talking about stupas and Lord Atisha. Everyone was very interested. Our chat became very...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Hecelus wrote me a beautiful card stating that he wishes to do more for his next Retreat!
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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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Dear Rinpoche, I hope your teachings will be spread worldwide. No words can express how I feel as I read along each and every line humbly put in by you. ... Read More Thank you Rinpoche for doing always your best and teaching us by example. Everything you do come from pure intent from the right motivation and you are guiding me on ... Read More The amount of content is staggering I have the mandala offering entry booked marked and I still enjoy and learn from that.
Thank you again Rinpoche-la :)
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