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(By Tsem Rinpoche) VERY HOLY AND SACRED. I was presented with this beautiful Tsa-tsa of Lord Maitreya Buddha a short while back. The clay of this tsa-tsa is...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) VERY HOLY AND SACRED. I was presented with this beautiful Tsa-tsa of Lord Maitreya Buddha a short while back. The clay of this tsa-tsa is...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) If it wasn’t for this horribly little annoying phenomena called KARMA, I would just disrobe, go out every weekend, make lots of friends, party, make stadium...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The story of the Fat Monk is interesting. It originated from China and is supposed to be the future Maitreya Buddha. The story goes that a...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) 52 Beautiful White Taras! (By Tsem Rinpoche) This artist is spectacular. I wish Tsongkhapa in this style can be painted also. I wanted to share with...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) During my birthday in 2010, two student’s of mine from Indonesia surprised me with a lovely birthday present: Betsy Ciaputra and Valentina Suhendra felt that my...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Araxie asked a very good and helpful question which I have posted here. I have extracted this from the One question a day section of my...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Another interesting and heartfelt question from my blog on the public question board I thought I’d share: Dear rinpoche, if i persevere diligently in my practices...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) DAY ONE – THE ARRIVAL OF THE NEW GOMPA STATUES (8 ft Vajrayogini, 8 ft Setrap and 12 ft Lama Tsongkhapa) 2-11-2010 3-11-2010 4-11-2010 5-11-2010 6-11-2010...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The thousands of sacred mantras rolled, sealed and ready for insertion into our sacred statues for New Kechara Gompa. We roll these mantras ourselves in...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) This is the original that belonged to my Mom now with my sister. The painting is around 2.5 x 3 inches. It is small and portable....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Heart Sutra Body is nothing more than emptiness, emptiness is nothing more than body. The body is exactly empty, and emptiness is exactly body. The...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) May I be a guard for those who are protectorless A guide for those who journey on the road; For those who wish to go across...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) A card and hard disc from Sean Wang…read below to know why..great ideas. Last week whilst giving a dharma talk, I mentioned about how mantras and...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) This is my sweet friend Anila Thupten Chonyid in Howell, New Jersey, USA. She has been a nun for over two decades. She use to attend...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Friends, Our New Kechara Gompa (Hall) will have three images. Centre and main piece will be Lord Tsongkapa (12ft). The left side Vajra Yogini(8ft) and...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Mt. Putuo lies to the east of Zhoushan City. Zhoushan City is situated on Zhoushan Island that in turn gives its name to a group of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) It was during the Kechara Charity Golf Tournament where Mr Hang Phoo and his wife Cheng Kee first saw the antique Tsongkhapa statue. Due to powerful...
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I don’t have any details but I found these pictures on Facebook by accident and by luck. So I would like to post this to show how fabulous this project...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Over a week ago, 2 hand-carved/hand-made statues arrived into Kechara’s hands! Coming from the artisan’s hands, not one of these beautiful stone statues is the same...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) These 2 statues are the new 14″ stone Vajra Yogini statues that are individually carved from stone. Although similar, no two pieces look the same. Very...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) During the KP SS2 opening, Shelly and Ron Tai bought a 3-foot Lama Tsongkhapa statue…and 2 days ago, they invited Him to their home! After the...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Li Kim is the head of Kechara Media & Publications (KMP), she works very hard for the department and at the same time taking care of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In Melaka, Kechara has a study group. They get together to discuss dharma and facilitators from KL will go to Melaka to conduct classes. There would...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) A wonderful prayer to do daily to help us remember reality. Anything by Kyabje Pabongka would be tremendously beneficial. He never existed for himself but only...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In Kechara Saraswati Arts Dept or KSA, they are creating a beautiful clay Amitabha statue I’ve have placed an order for. This is the progress of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) One of my long time friends and students, Margaret Lee is very talented. She is from Hong Kong and currently resides in Malaysia. Through the years,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The current day incarnation line of Changkya Rolpe Dorje is His Holiness Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche. Kyabje Pabongka is the undisputed incarnation of this Great Heruka Master....
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Keloksi Temple is the Largest Chinese Buddhist Monastery in Malaysia as far as I know. It is in the Northern State of Pinang which is five hours drive from...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) David Lai who is one of my younger students, has a huge interest in Buddhist Iconography. He is an avid collector of statues, thangkas, tsatsas, paintings,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Kechara House, Look at these incredibly BEAUTIFUL representations of Enlightenment coming to Kechara House soon! We are just awaiting the completion of the renovations on...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Datuk May, the president of Kechara House invited 63 Taras. One Tara was dedicated for one year in her life. Each Tara will be slowly given...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Rinpoche, I led the “trainees” thru one session of menlha, with explanations for the chanting and ritual. Now Gim Lee is umze-ing the group n they...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) A few weeks ago…a beautiful event…another sacred Tsongkapa statue was invited to a home for blessings and worship. Dear Rinpoche, We are now at Kwok Wai’s...
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Many new people who visit Kechara for the first time or who come across Kechara can get quite confused about how many departments there are…or where they can contribute...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Beautiful car Buddhas done. These are made available so we can place on our dashboard to be blessed and protected when we drive. We spend so...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) June 11, 2010 A personal message from myself to Datin Jennifer. Datin Jennifer is very devoted to Setrap. She has completed one million mantras already and daily...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Last night we had a large group in Kechara reciting the holy Lam Rim texts. I was moved. So I did a surprise visit last night...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Two of my friends, Lili Ng and Thierry Janssens came out with a creative idea to summarise the Lamrim – in mind map form and offered...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) When I was very young in New Jersey, my step parents wouldn’t let me study dharma, do sadhanas, mantras or go to the Buddhist Church much...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) When we take Refuge in the Buddha, we take a pledge to start the incredible journey of realising the cause of all sufferings does not arise...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) When I first started talking about Setrap in this area, many people were understandingly cautious. As time goes by and people propitiate Him, they realize Setrap...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Liew & family is very devoted to Setrap now. They have purchased Setrap from Kechara Paradise outlet in One Utama shopping centre. They brought it to KSA to...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I love thangkas and statues. I have always since I was a young child. This thangka is so well made and it is in Gyuto Tantric...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The main shrine in Kechara House (KH) with Lord Tsongkapa and the Dzambala in the front. Dzambala will help us purify the negative karma arising from...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Kechara Saraswati Arts (KSA) is one of the 12 departments of Kechara, look at their wonderful work in restoring the statue of Kyabje Zong Rinpoche perfectly!...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Since I was very young, I had a yearning to live in the mountains in a hut or a large cave protected from the elements. Within...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Many beautfiful offerings were readied to recieve Lama Tsongkapa. The family have been planning this for a long time. Twelve people from Kechara House went to...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Recently I had monk friends from Gaden visit me. They had assisted me in the Vajra Yogini Self initiation rite that I had needed to do....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I always like to do things that are unconventional or have different from the norm… especially when being different make things stand out better to attract...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In 2008 I took a group of over 60 people to the holy places of Vajra Yogini and Buddhism in Nepal. I went to each place...
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One of the places I always wanted to visit since I was a child. I saw this image in Land O’Pines School library’s encyclopedia. From then I generated a...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Serenity and generosity are qualities of the heart. Insight and Concentration are qualities of the mind. Compassion and wisdom are qualities of the true nature. ~Heart...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Compassion is not for others. It is not something to read about or admire. It is not something to praise. It is not a philosophy alone....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The seated Phra Buddha Maha Nawamin statue located at Wat Muang in Ang Thong Province, some two hours north of Bangkok & an hour north of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Nepal has had a long tradition of Vajra Yogini worship.They have many sacred temples dedicated to Her. They have Her depictions everywhere. It is such a...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I have a wonderful Lady Student named Datuk May. She is a kind and warm person. Very helpful and very devoted. When I opened my Kathmandu...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) One of my students travelled to Nepal with me and we visited many Vajra Yogini Chapels. She was inspired and when she returned home, she renovated...
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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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I have to come to malaysia to kechara house. i have to see Tsem Rinpoche. In every video i have to laugh. then i feel shame. then i feel happy ... Read More I have to say, Rinpoche, that if I lived in Malaysia - I would ask you to accept me as a student! I have learned more from you in a ... Read More Whatever Rinpoche does and says makes me cry with joy!
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