(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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Recently I was going through the Himalayan Art Resources website when I stumbled across their Dorje Shugden section featuring art from all traditions and schools of Buddhism...
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(The 4th Zhabdrung Rinpoche of Bhutan and Dorje Shugden) འབྲུག་ཞེས་པའི་མིང་སྟོན་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས་མི་ཚོས་ས་ཐག་རིང་པོ་ཡིན་པ་དང་། ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡའི་ནང་ཚན་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ། རྫོང་ཆེན་པོ་རྙིང་པ་དཀར་པོ་ཡོད་པ། ཤིང་ནགས་གཙང་མ་སུ་ཞིག་ཀྱང་འགྲོ་མ་མྱོང་བའི་འཁོར་གཡུག་ཡག་པོ་ཡོད་པ།
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A little known fact about Bhutan’s Buddhist tradition is that notable Drukpa Kagyu masters of this nation advocated the practice of the Protector Dorje Shugden...
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During the 2015 Gelug Conference, the Dalai Lama claimed that Dharma Protector Setrap had given mistaken prophecies to Dagyab Rinpoche as well as monks from Minyak Khangtsen of Drepung Loseling Monastery...
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The epithet Tsangpa Gyare signifies first that he was native to Tsang Province, and secondly, that he was a repa or ‘cotton-clad one’ belonging to the Gya clan...
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Milarepa is one of the most famous individuals in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, but very little of his life is known with any historical certainty. Even the dates of his birth and death...
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This special message from Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje was played during the 35th Kagyu Monlam festivities held in Bodhgaya, India. While this is not unusual, the meaning behind his message was. The Karmapa is the highest incarnate lama and the head of the Karma Kagyu sub-sect of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism; and...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David Lai) Dear friends, I was given a book called ‘Niguma, the Lady of Illusion’ recently. Although I have read bits and pieces about this dakini’s life online in the past, I did not really know much about her. Hence, reading this book was to be my first serious...
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