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 the world. He established two great monasteries that continue to spearhead the Thai Forest Tradition and was instrumental in spreading Theravada Buddhism in the West....
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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 and is credited with having compiled the Kangyur collection that contains the Indian scriptures based on the spoken words of the Buddha, and the Tangyur...
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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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Drakpa Gyeltsen was born in 1619 in Tolung Gekhasa into a noble family by the same name as the village. His family had previously produced the 25th Ganden Tripa, Peljor Gyatso...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David Lai) Shakyashri Bhadra, who is known to the Tibetans as Kache Panchen (Mahapandita of Kashimir), was one of the last great Kashmiri masters to have arrived in Tibet from India during the transmission of Buddhism into the Himalayan country. Regarded as one of the previous incarnations of Dorje...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Adeline Woon) Introduction Geshe Lobsang Tayang (1867-1937 CE), also known as Jetsun Lobsang Tayang or Jetsun Lobsang Tamdin, was born in 1867 in an area within the Gobi desert, an arid region between northern China and southern Mongolia. Known for his vast knowledge of Buddhism, Geshe Lobsang Tayang...
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(Oleh Tsem Rinpoche) Salam para praktisi Dharma dari seluruh dunia serta teman-teman yang terkasih, Setelah ‘dilenyapkannya’ guru besar, meditator, ahli logika, yogi, siddha dan cendekiawan Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen oleh pemerintah Dalai Lama ke-5 lebih dari tiga ratus tahun yang lalu di Tibet, garis reinkarnasinya (masih) dilarang sampai saat ini. Namun bukan berarti beliau berhenti...
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Dear friends around the world, Last night I addressed more false claims made by the Tibetan leadership to justify banning the practice of the enlightened Protector Dorje Shugden. One of the reasons the Tibetan leadership has given repeatedly over the years is that Dorje Shugden is a minor practice which is not engaged in by...
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Dear friends around the world, I noticed recently that a lot of people have been live-streaming video on Facebook to express themselves. I thought that it was pretty interesting to know that these people are actually ‘live’ and this inspired me to try live-streaming myself. So I told a few students including Pastor Seng...
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The extraordinary Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche's extraordinary life was recorded in an equally extraordinary biography which students from Kechara had the merits to study together, and share below what they learned...
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Thonmi Sambhota is not a conventional religious figure but his invention of the written Tibetan script was instrumental in the transmission of Buddhism to Tibet...
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Before meeting Jowo Je Atisha, Khuton Choje was already a great Buddhist master of the highest repute and also the abbot of Solnak Thangpoche Monastery in the Yarlung Valley of central Tibet...
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Gedun Nyedrak was born into the virtuous Selsha household that lived in the Yara district of the northern Kham province of Tibet...
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The unmistaken incarnation of Sonam Yeshe Wangpo was Ngawang Sonam Gelek Pelzang. He was born at Olka Ribuk, during the Wood-Horse Year of the 10th 60‐Year Cycle according to the Tibetan calendar...
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Over the years Kechara students have gone to H.E. Tsem Rinpoche’s home and headquarters Gaden Shartse Monastery, and various other places around the world where they have met many of Rinpoche’s friends, peers and lamas. Each time, they have given us a beautiful sharing about Rinpoche and his qualities that Rinpoche would not talk...
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Over the years Kechara students have gone to H.E. Tsem Rinpoche’s home and headquarters Gaden Shartse Monastery, and various other places around the world where they have met many of Rinpoche’s friends, peers and lamas. Each time, they have given us a beautiful sharing about Rinpoche and his qualities that Rinpoche would not talk...
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Over the years Kechara students have gone to H.E. Tsem Rinpoche’s home and headquarters Gaden Shartse Monastery, and various other places around the world where they have met many of Rinpoche’s friends, peers and lamas. Each time, they have given us a beautiful sharing about Rinpoche and his qualities that Rinpoche would not talk...
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Over the years Kechara students have gone to H.E. Tsem Rinpoche’s home and headquarters Gaden Shartse Monastery, and various other places around the world where they have met many of Rinpoche’s friends, peers and lamas. Each time, they have given us a beautiful sharing about Rinpoche and his qualities that Rinpoche would not talk...
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Over the years Kechara students have gone to H.E. Tsem Rinpoche’s home and headquarters Gaden Shartse Monastery, and various other places around the world where they have met many of Rinpoche’s friends, peers and lamas. Each time, they have given us a beautiful sharing about Rinpoche and his qualities that Rinpoche would not talk...
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Within Dorje Shugden’s incarnation lineage, there are two lesser known incarnations who lived between the time of Panchen Sonam Drakpa and Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen. These two figures are not as well-known, mainly because they did not live long enough to manifest particularly great deeds as they did in their other incarnations. There are many...
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