His Holiness Kyabje Pabongka Dorje Chang is one of the greatest Lamas of the 20th century. Today, not a single Gelug master hasn’t benefited from Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche’s teachings, either directly or indirectly. Many of his disciples became great practitioners themselves, and continued to disseminate the Dharma they received from this great master. For...
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Dear students and friends, I have always admired great Dharma masters from a young age. I remember seeing a picture of Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche when I was about 16-17 years old. I felt such a strong attraction to that picture of Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche and I still remember it clearly. Although I did not...
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On August 24, Kechara will join over 40 Dorje Shugden organisations from around the world to celebrate International Dorje Shugden Day with a Great Prayer Festival...
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(Dorje Shugden: My Side of the Story) ང་ལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཤུགས་ལྡན་སྐོར་བཤད་རོགས་བྱེད་ཅེས་ཚར་མང་པོ་ཞུས་སོང་། ངས་དྲིན་ཅན་གྱི་བླ་མ་རྣམས་དང་ཆོས་སྐྱོང་སྲུང་མའི་ཕྱོགས་ནས་བསམ་ཞིབ་བྱེད་བཞིན་དུ། ད་ལྟ་འདིར་བཤད་པར་ཐག་གཅོད་པ་ཡིན།
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It would not be far-fetched to say that most influential Gelug lamas of today would consider H.H. Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche as their direct teacher, or as their lineage teacher through his heart son H.H. Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche. However, in present times, few are aware of Pabongka Rinpoche’s teacher, His Holiness the 4th Tagphu Pemavajra...
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(They Were Not Wrong) ང་རང་ཚོ་བསྟན་སྲུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཤུགས་ལྡན་བསྟེན་གསོལ་བྱེད་མཁན། དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན། བླ་མ་སྐྱེས་ཆེན་དམ་པ། གྲུབ་ཐོབ། གྲུབ་ཐོབ་ཆེན་པོ་མང་པོ་དང་། ཆོས་ལུགས་སྣ་ཚོགས་འཛིན་མཁན་ ༢༠༥ ཡོད་པ་རྣམས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཤུགས་ལྡན་དང་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་པ་རེད།
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The current form of Naro Kachö Vajra Yogini appeared to the Mahasiddha Naropa after he meditated in a cave and focused on her sadhana, her rituals and her special generation and completion stage practices. After Naropa had accomplished Vajra Yogini’s path, which means that he had gained the attainments of her practice, she appeared...
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Interpretation / Description Amitayus Buddha, White Tara and Ushnishavijaya. Collectively they are known as the Three Long Life Deities. The painting depicts at the top right and left the two 20th century teachers Pabongkha Dechen Nyingpo (1878-1941) and the 14th Dalai Lama (b.1935). The two images appear as if they were created using well...
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The Third Trijang, Lobzang Yeshe Tendzin Gyatso was born on March 10, 1901, in Gungtang. As a child he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Second Trijang, Lobzang Tsultrim Pelden...
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The Fourth Takpu, Pema Vajra Jampel Tenpai Ngodrub, most commonly known as Takpu Dorje Chang, was born in 1876 in Naksho, Kham...
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The Third Changkya, Rolpai Dorje was born in 1717 in the Drakkar territory of Nub Padmo De Monastery, one of four monasteries that Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen established...
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The Second Pabongkha, Dechen Nyingpo was born in 1878 in Yutok Shar. At the age of two his mother took him to see the Eighty-first Ganden Trichen, Ngawang Norbu...
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Dear friends around the world, As I have mentioned before in the past, learning about the lives of great Buddhist masters is an extremely important part of our spiritual journey. For example, if you aspire to be or have a particular interest in a singer, politician or writer, wouldn’t it make more sense to read their biographies or the books they authored? By reading up about them, we will understand the difficulties these great people went through to get to where they are today and this will inspire us on our paths towards realising our ...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) If you look at the influential lamas of today who are doing great works around the world, it would be safe to say all of them can count His Holiness Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche as their direct teacher or lineage teacher. As a young monk Pabongka Rinpoche was not known to be...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) His Holiness Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche was one of the most famous, sought-after and extremely powerful teachers of recent times in Tibet. Pabongka Rinpoche comes from a long line of incarnations stemming back to the tutors of the emperors of China, such as his incarnation as Changkya Rolpe Dorje. As Pabongka Tulku, this attained master is counted as the third of his incarnation lineage but prior to his name and recognition as Pabongka Tulku, He has had innumerable incarnations. When Pabongka Rinpoche taught in Tibet,...
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When I was in my teens in Los Angeles back in the 80’s, I came across a picture book on Tibet. There were many pictures in black and white of the Tibetans of the past and their way of life. I kept flipping through the book and I came across a picture of a...
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Dear friends, When I arrived in Howell, New Jersey back in 1972 as six year old boy going on seven, little did I know living ten minutes walk away was one of the greatest living masters from Tibet who was known then as Geshe Lobsang Tharchin and was a direct disciple of Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche...
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Pabongka Rinpoche Dechen Nyingpo Jampa Tenzin Trinlay Gyatso was one of the greatest masters of the 20th century and one of the most influential teachers in Tibet. He had acquired the teachings from the Sakya, from the Nyingma, from the lineage of Ganden Tendzin** and Ngulchu Dharmabhadra, and collected other valuable teachings from various...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Taking Refuge By H.H. Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche The One Hundred and Fifty Verses of Praise says: Take refuge in whomever Has absolutely no shortcomings, Absolutely no blindness, and in whom resides Every aspect of all good qualities. When you think of this, Respect those who praise him And abide by his...
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