Dear Students and Friends, When we invite a Buddha statue home, it is customary to have the statue filled with mantras, blessed items from lamas, and other holy objects. However, has it ever occurred to you that a mummified monk could also have been inserted into a Buddha statue? Doctors did a CT scan...
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Dear friends, I am always on the lookout for interesting articles, information and tidbits to give you more understanding, perspectives or even just trivia information. Information can be helpful at times. I found this article to be very interesting how Buddhist words and Buddhism can make a person feel more compassionate and happy. Tsem...
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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 which were offering such items so importing things from the east was not an easy process for ordinary lay people. Hence Rinpoche had the idea...
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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 make excuses and justifications of why we can’t… how about if we start to say we can and produce results… Love and care, Tsem Rinpoche...
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On June 21, 2015, Kechara had the privilege and great merits to witness an auspicious trance in Wisdom Hall at Kechara Forest Retreat. We are very happy to be able to make these photos of the trance available to everyone to download at absolutely no charge. These images are screenshots with captions included to...
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Nov 10, 2012 My talk on “Why Visit Holy Pilgrimages?” (By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, Some students and friends will be visiting Bodhgaya, Rajgir, Nalanda and Sarnath. I decided to record the significance of these places for them. Knowing the significance their pilgrimage will be more powerful and meaningful. Lord Buddha Himself recommended we...
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Tsem Rinpoche gave a short explanation of why we offer ornaments to the Buddhas in this video. Dear friends around the world, Welcome again to another post. I am very happy to have you visit. Last night myself with an artistic group of Kecharians did beautiful ornament offerings to Vajra Yogini. In Kechara we make...
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December 15, 2014 Taitetsu Unno, Shin Buddhist scholar and minister, dies at 85 Rev. Dr. Taitetsu Unno—one of the world’s preeminent scholars of Jodo Shinshu (Shin) Buddhism and a longtime minister in that tradition—passed away on Saturday, December 13. He was 85 years old. Unno’s final moments were spent surrounded by friends and family,...
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Tsem Rinpoche was travelling in Willow Creek, Northern California a few weeks ago. We were there to take in the various sights and areas that Rinpoche had been reading about since he was a child. It was a very exciting trip for everyone, especially for Rinpoche, because for many years now Rinpoche had spoken...
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（译文请往下阅读） (By Tsem Rinpoche) It is a universal truth that all beings seek fulfillment and happiness in their lives. The Buddha taught and embodied this truth and hence many find solace in his teachings and his image. That is why for Buddhists, setting up an altar to the Buddha is of paramount importance for their spiritual practice. An altar to the Buddha is the focal point from which one ushers in fulfillment, happiness and wealth into their homes and lives. This video guide explains in a clear and modern way how to set up an altar to a...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) People have asked me thousands of times what practice should they do daily. They are busy, pressured for time and have heavy commitments. I understand. I sympathize that with so little time, they are sincere enough to connect with something higher daily. Perhaps for sanity’s sake or perhaps from realizations that...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear blog friends, Please take a look at these incredibly beautiful and HUGE STATUES of various Buddhas and Bodhisattvas throughout China. I am so amazed by these statues and I hope to visit in the future. I wish to pay my respects to them very much. China traditionally had Buddhism flourishing and deeply entrenched into their vast/rich culture for thousands of years. It’s resurging now again….May everyone be benefited by these holy Buddhas. Share these with your friends. Let them be amazed also. Much care, Tsem Rinpoche &nbs...
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Jul 6, 2013 (By Tsem Rinpoche) I was in Hong Kong last week. While there, I gave a talk to a small intelligent group on the MIND, how it reincarnates. Also on the qualities of the Buddha form and the reasons we make Buddha statues. I do hope you will gain some knowledge from...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) There are awakened forces out there who we call Buddhas that are fully free of ignorance and all that comes as part and parcel of ignorance. Who are in touch with themselves and see directly all phenomena as they really are. Hence nothing in existence is unseen to them. Who have eliminated...
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（译文请往下阅读） This delightful discourse is based on H.H. the Dalai Lama’s teachings on the twelve links of dependent origination. Sprinkled with stories of great practitioners, H.E. Tsem Rinpoche shares with us how our daily obstacles can be overcome with understanding, faith and determination. The talk culminates in the revelation of how even as ordinary beings we can ascend to Buddha’s Pure Land… don’t miss it! ~Admin 詹杜固仁波切在此开示里针对十二因缘给于独特的解释。开示里也提到提到许多伟大上师们发人深省的小故事，让我们轻松学会如何透过理解，信仰和决心去克服我们每日的修行障碍。开示后段更是一针见血的点出身为凡夫的我们，如何才...
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（中文请往下看） (By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, When a loved one or pet passes, it is a distressing time. We want to do the best for them and their onward journey after they have left their corporeal form. Yet sometimes we don’t know what to do, how to do and maybe cannot afford it. But we still want the best. We can invite sangha and others to recite prayers or we can do our own or both. There are many special things we can do to benefit the deceased. Too numerous to mention here. So for now this will suffice. Three decades back a belov...
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Dharma Work & TDL （译文请往下阅读） (By Tsem Rinpoche) Please take a look at this above video I did today for you. I hope it will bring you more light….. Dear friends, Today I was at the beach in East Coast of Malaysia and decided to share how I arrived at Thubten Dhargye Ling Dharma Centre in Los Angeles when I was 17 years old. I also have shared my thoughts on Dharma work. I thought my sharing might help some people. After all we are all humans and have our thoughts, feelings and emotions right or wrong. Dharma work is something of...
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Vina Vo (left) and Kieu Do pray at sunrise near a Buddhist shrine at 11th Avenue and East 19th Street in Oakland. Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle Dear friends, This is truly an interesting phenomena. Definitely the presence of holy objects such as Buddha images will bless and calm down the environment. That...
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Apr 5, 2010 （译文请往下阅读） (Transcribed from a teaching given by Tsem Rinpoche in Tsem Ladrang Kuala Lumpur, June 2010) How Lama Tsongkhapa transforms to Vajrayogini If you condense Buddha’s teachings step by step, they become the Three Principle Paths. We can develop the Three Principle Paths and gain mastery over our rebirth. You know why? So you don’t ever have to worry about yourself again and I don’t have to worry about you. You gain mastery. You can. Therefore, the best anyone can do if not enlightenment for now is to gain mastery over ...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In this day and age, when our overwhelming distraction is lust which turns into difficulties short and long term…it is so hard to suppress. So in Tantra, it is transmuted into an energy that brings ENLIGHTENMENT. A manifestation of this is Vajrayogini. Therefore engaging in Her sadhana brings transmutation at phenomenal...
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