(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Shin Tan) One of the greatest intellectuals of India, Acharya Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi (9th October 1876 – 24th June 1947) was a Buddhist, Pali and Sanskrit scholar. The youngest of seven children, Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi was born in Sankhval (or Sancoale) village in the Indian city of Goa in...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) “The essence of Buddhism is timeless and universal, but the forms it takes always adapt according to context. The Triratna Bauddha Mahasangha is dedicated to communicating Buddhist truths in ways appropriate to the modern world.” ~Triratna Bauddha Mahasangha India is a beautiful country, and it is also the birthplace...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Adeline) Dear friends around the world, I am honoured to have been given the privilege of presenting my research on Nechung with all of you, here on His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche’s blog. Nechung has been a Tibetan Buddhist Dharma protector for the past 1,300 years, keeping his...
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Ucheyma's awe-inspiring depiction as a self-decapitating goddess has inspired generations of practitioners since the introduction of tantric practice in ancient India. Her practice had migrated north to Tibet...
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Shantideva was a Buddhist scholar, monk and philosopher, who lived between the 7th century and the 8th century. He is considered one of the 84 Mahasiddhas. Born a wealthy prince, Shantideva turned his back on the material world the night before he was to be crowned king. This extraordinary transformation blossomed from the teachings...
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Arya Nagarjuna was a famous Mahasiddha, Buddhist philosopher, and alchemist who was born 400 years after Buddha Shakyamuni’s parinirvana. He is known for establishing the Middle Path (Madhyamaka) Buddhist tradition, making gold to fulfil the needs of the Sangha, and retrieving the Prajnaparamita Sutra from the Naga realm. Nagarjuna is considered the first of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Shin Tan) October 14, 1956 was a historic day for India. On this day, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, a social reformer and the chief architect of India’s Constitution, renounced Hinduism and converted to Buddhism along with around 400,000 of his followers in Nagpur. This event was historic not only because...
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Mahatma Gandhi was a politician, lawyer, activist, writer, and the leader of the nationalist movement in India. He is also considered to be the father of the nation state of India...
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As the Tibetan leadership prepares to celebrate the 58th Anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day, my students felt that it is an important time to address issues that continue to undermine...
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Paramahansa Yogananda was an Indian saint and yogi who introduced the ancient teachings of Kriya Yoga to the world...
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Sai Baba of Shirdi is an Indian saint who practised both Hinduism and Islam. He dedicated his life to ascetic practice and to spreading the message of love...
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I came across a series of videos by a great Sikh master of the Radha Soami tradition. His name is Venerable Ishwar Puri Ji. I have watched several of his videos, and I must say that I am extremely impressed...
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The sixty-four yogini temple in Hirapur sits on an ancient piece of land once ruled by the old Kalinga kingdom. Buddhism and Tantric practice flourished here, and the cult of the yogini evolved as Tantra took hold in these lands...
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நம்மை தெய்வீகத்தன்மைக்கு அழைத்துச் செல்ல, ஒரு பாதை அல்லது சிந்தனை, ஒரு குரு அல்லது ஆசான், அல்லது ஒரு மதம் அல்லது குறிப்பிட்ட வழி மட்டும் இல்லை...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche, originally published Jan 21, 2013) My Bodhgaya Vajrayogini (17 inches) Over a decade and a half ago – Bodhgaya as everybody knows is the place where Lord Buddha chose to become enlightened where he sat under a tree. And his tree or offspring of it is still alive in Bodhgaya which...
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Atisha is considered one of the greatest Indian Buddhist masters of all time but it is his work in reviving pure Buddhism in Tibet that truly sets him apart...
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One of the earliest modern academic references to Dorje Shugden can be found in Professor L. Austine Waddell’s description of Pemayangtse Monastery in Sikkim...
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Baba Sawan Singh Grewal, known as “The Great Master” to his followers, was a charismatic Indian saint of the Sikh faith. He was the spiritual successor to his teacher, Baba Jaimal Singh...
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(Reuters Publishes My Reconciliation Prayers for Asia) ང་རང་ཚོ་ནང་ཕན་ཚུན་མི་མཐུན་པ་དེ་དག་འགྲིགས་འཇགས་བྱུང་བ་ཡིན་ན། ང་ཚོས་འཛམ་གླིང་འདི་ནང་མཐུན་གཤིབ་ཚད་དང་ལྡན་པ་འཁྱེར་ཐུབ། ང་རང་ཚོའི་དུས་འདིར།
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异中求同是为世界带来真正的和谐之道。身处今日这个时代,我们背负过去历史中的种种分歧和问题,也正为这一切寻求解决方案。不管怎样,
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