I often send Kechara staff and volunteers to the movies or an outing to appreciate all of them. I really care about all the people working for Kechara. Last week, all 33 staff from Kechara Oasis (KO) went to the HBO cinema to catch the movie, The Dragon Lady. I thought that it would...
Tags: food, Kechara, Kechara oasis, restaurant, vegetarianism
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My good friend and student of nearly 20yrs, Wan Wai Meng, has recently sent me an update. His pet project named Kechara Earth Project...
Tags: earth, environment, Kechara, magazine, students
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Yet another Dharma House has manifested. This time it is for Kechara Paradise’s hardworking staff! I have named the house Dzambala house, and it will be occupied by Junior from Sarawak, Jack from Negeri Sembilan, Jazz from Johor, Eric and Adrian from KL. They are sincere, young, dedicated, out of town boys that work...
Tags: dharma, Kechara, students
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) A question from my blog: Rinpoche, why did you choose Setrap for kechara House to practice? I heard that when you were young, you really like Pelden Hlamo. So why do you give Setrap to all of your students? From Losang B Dear Losang, This is a really good...
Tags: buddha, Buddhism, Kechara, pratice, Setrap
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Tonight, in part of my talk at Kechara House’s Setrap Retreat, I explained about Setrap and why we make wrathful offerings to Dharma Protectors. Setrap is the Dharma Protector of Gaden Shartse, and also Kechara House. He is the wrathful emanation of Buddha Amitabha so as an enlightened Being, all of...
Tags: Buddhism, dharma, Kechara, practice, retreat, Setrap, spiritual, videos
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In the past few months, many full-time staff have joined Kechara, and I rejoice for this. I got the blog team to interview them, and I hope their stories will inspire you too. The 9 who have joined full-time are: Darren Leong (Kechara Paradise 1-Utama, Retail Assistant) Dawa Wu (to be based in KP...
Tags: friends, Kechara, students
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On Wednesday, Dato’ Ruby Khong, the President of Kechara Soup Kitchen, was invited to speak at an open talk hosted by “Live and Inspire”. This was held at Starbucks, in Bangsar Village 2. The “Live and Inspire” series has run for 45 episodes, and they have won two awards since they started: ‘Global Entrepreneurship...
Tags: Kechara, Kechara Soup Kitchen, students
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A few years back I approached one student to open a restaurant for KECHARA. But the student declined citing various reasons. There are people who find reasons to win and some do not. So I approached Irene and asked her to open and without hesitation she said yes. Irene has never operated a restaurant...
Tags: food, Kechara, Kechara oasis, restaurant, students, vegetarianism
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Uncle Lai joined Kechara a few years back. He had many spiritual questions and many went unanswered for years. When his son joined Kechara, his son would share the many things he had learned at Kechara with his dad in the evenings. They would sit together to talk, exchange views and ponder. Uncle Lai...
Tags: inspiration, Kechara, spirituality, students
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Kechara Media & Publications (KMP) is the publishing arm of Kechara. With 10 talented people in the team (including admin staff etc), they have published 25 books, 4 box sets (2 in Chinese, 2 in English) and 5 prayer books!!! Wow! The wonderful team (photo; right) is led by Li Kim (center). With her leadership,...
Tags: dharma, Kechara, students, Tsem Rinpoche
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This MMS was sent to me yesterday: Dearest Rinpoche… Fishes have all been released: 300 kg of catfish dedicated to Ladrang – requested by Rinpoche (this is for every Ladrang members long life, happiness and spiritual growth) 88kg dedicated to Kechara Care & Kechara House by Su Ming 100kg dedicated to Rinpoche’s long life...
Tags: animal liberation, animals, Kechara, students
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While spring cleaning through my personal items, the Ladrang staff and I sorted through several cards (greeting cards, birthday cards etc). One of them had a beautiful photo of Samantabhadra with his white consort that a student of mine gave to me a while ago. The style was very simple and earthy…very very beautiful....
Tags: Arts, Buddhism, Kechara, vajrayogini
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MPH (Malaya Publishing House) has 18 outlets all over Malaysia and they are one of the biggest bookstores in the country. We have had many associations with them in the past…launching our major books there like “If Not Now When?” (amongst our other books), promoting two of our KMP star writers biography (Jamie and...
Tags: animals, Kechara, mumu, pets, students
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Kechara Paradise’s new location in SS2 recently opened its doors to the public. Kechara Paradise SS2 is our first Dharma store that wa established in the year 2000, a few years before the opening of our Dharma centre, Kechara House. It has now move to a bigger location and on ground floor. We were...
Tags: buddha, Buddhism, dharma, Kechara, Malaysia, people, religion, spiritual, spirituality
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Below are 3 cards from my students and friends: Girlie Ooi, Dato’ Ruby Khong and Sean Wang. 1. Girlie Ooi Girlie Ooi has just finished her Dzambala retreat. Doing Dzambala’s prayer can, in the short term, bring us material wealth and help us out of poverty but more importantly, his practice can also...
Tags: cards, friends, gifts, Kechara, students
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Kechara Oasis first opened in 2009. Led by Irene Lim, my long-time student, she has since been taking the restaurant to greater heights. Just a month ago, they won the Top 10 Best Casual Dining Award at the HAPA Awards (Hospitality Asia Platinum Award)! Held on an annual basis, the award recognizes top restaurants...
Tags: Kechara, Kechara oasis, restaurant, vegetarianism
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No it’s not a new department hehe….it’s Kechara Soup Kitchen (KSK) that has officially launched its very first weekday mobile soup kitchen! Since September 2010, KSK has opened their very own building right in the city center of Kuala Lumpur! As they continued their community services, the number of homeless people that walked through...
Tags: food, Kechara, Kechara Soup Kitchen, people, society
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Dearest Rinpoche, I am so blessed. I just wanted to try to connect with you in the way that I can. My mother is dying of small-cell carcinoma. Rebecca Hart is a single mother that suffered greatly at the hands of her husbands. She had my brother who is 41 now, and she had...
Tags: friends, inspiration, Kechara
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Source: http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2011/1/1/lifefocus/7613072&sec=lifefocus Source: http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2011/1/1/lifefocus/7613072&sec=lifefocus
Tags: Buddhism, inspiration, Kechara
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A few years ago when things were difficult, some of my students took part in flea markets all over the city. They were so kind and worked so hard to raise funds for Kechara and to help me pay bills through sales at this Flea Market…. We all had very little then, and could...
Tags: friends, gifts, Kechara, Malaysia, people, students
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