（译文请往下阅读） (Posted by Pastor Seng Piow) This is H.E. Tsem Rinpoche’s certificate of education, this is his HIGHEST education – Certificate of Proficiency conferred by the California State Department of Education when he was 18. He has no more formal education after that. After quitting school with this certificate in Los Angeles, he went on to work in Macdonald’s cooking fries, in a laundromat as a laundry boy, and in a photo booth collecting film negatives and returning developed pho…tos to drive-through customers. Then ...
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Dear Friends around the world, I try to always share stories and pictures that inspire me to be a better person. My blog team and I do spend a lot of time to ‘come across’ these stories to share with you. I do not hope for any gain except to enrich your lives as it does mine....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In life after life since the time of the historical Buddha you have incarnated in a string of scholars, masters and yogis with the express wish to liberate others from sufferings. Your many emanations and incarnations are both seen and unseen. Common and uncommon in Dharmakhaya, Sambhogakhaya and Nirmanakaya forms...
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Transcript (edited): In October or November of 1987, around that time, I arrived in New Delhi from the United States. I was 22 years old and I had never been to India so it was a mighty culture shock for me in all aspects of that word. Anyway, I arrived in Delhi and...
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I lived in a family that was Mongolian and my Mongolian stepmother in Howell, New Jersey was very religious and at the same time, extremely superstitious. Every Mongolian household in Howell – and there were a couple of hundred of us – would have a Buddhist shrine room or shrine area in their homes. That means...
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（译文请往下阅读） Kent and the Chundi Kuanyin statue that Tsem Rinpoche gifted him a few days before the accident詹杜固仁波切在意外发生前几天送给宭菖的准提观音像 (posted by Pastor Seng Piow) Kent Kok is a disciple of His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche. Rinpoche has never personally contacted Kent, and furthermore, Rinpoche was far away in USA in July 2014, then suddenly one day Kent received a statue of Chundi Kuanyin from Rinpoche. A few days later on July 12th at midnight 1am, Kent was driving along a highway in Kuala Lumpur, he was very familiar with this stretch of road, but ...
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（译文请往下阅读） Antoinette with Tsem Rinpoche in front of the Vajrayogini stupa in Kechara Forest Retreat (Posted by Pastor Seng Piow) Pastor Antoinette Kass first came to Malaysia all the way from half a globe away – Luxembourg to meet His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche in 2011, after getting know and learning Dharma from Rinpoche just from online resources (Youtube, blog, Facebook…). She has always been spiritual and had visited places like Findhorn in search of spirituality. On the first meeting, Rinpoche had a nice chat with her and present...
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（译文请往下阅读） (posted by Pastor Seng Piow) Below is a real incident recounted by Casteven Lim: One day in June of 2013, I was driving along the North-South Highway of Malaysia, suddenly it rained heavily and I lost control of my car. The car skidded and started spinning furiously and I quickly prayed to my guru His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche for help and recited Dorje Shugden’s mantra OM BENZA WIKI BITANA SOHA. Despite my effort to hold on to the steering wheel, the car continued spinning three times horizontally and was almost in a low-flight st...
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Being Rinpoche’s personal attendant means that I am able to witness real Dharma in action, both on and off the throne. I consider myself extremely fortunate, and at the same time it is also a great challenge to instil Dharma in my life 24/7. Over the years I have witnessed many cases of how Rinpoche helped many people in both worldly and supramundane ways, so I decided to have these stories told in comic form for the wider audience. It is my wish that through these stories many will be inspired to achieve the state of compassion and attai...
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（译文请往下阅读） (by Pastor Loh Seng Piow) Over the years, His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche has been to many hospitals, doing prayers, performing rituals, giving comfort to the sick, and relieving the worries of the families. The ones on the sick bed could be babies… born with defective organs desperately needing operation, young children, adult men and women with all sorts of illnesses, and dying old people. Rinpoche is clairvoyant to know whether the person on the sick bed is going to survive or not, so the prayers and rituals that Rinpoche performs...
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（译文请往下阅读） Sep 30, 2013 (by Pastor Loh Seng Piow) Paul Yap is a long-time student of His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche, and Paul is also one of the newly elected Board of Directors of Kechara, managing various departments like Kechara House the temple, Wisdom Hall in Kechara Forest Retreat, Kechara Discovery, Kechara Saraswati Arts and Kechara Blooms. Recently Paul suffers from some spinal problems and is having difficulty walking, and Tsem Rinpoche out of great concern goes all out to help Paul: – Rinpoche went around town with Paul to consult v...
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Having had the fortune of meeting Rinpoche when she was just 11 years old, the ‘Growing up with Rinpoche’ series captures Pastor Jean Ai’s growth under Rinpoche’s guidance. In this series, she recounts some of Rinpoche’s myriad Dharma activities to benefit sentient beings. Rinpoche has many older students, some of whom live alone without...
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（译文请往下阅读） This monk can sit on clean high throne teaching the Dharma and conferring the Highest Yoga Tantra initiation, he can also sit on dirty low street walkway giving money and food to the homeless. 能屈能伸，此乃大丈夫也。这位僧人可以坐在干净的高法座上教导佛法，授予无上瑜伽灌顶；也可以坐在马路旁又低又肮脏的地上给流浪汉送钱和食物。
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“Everyday, try to help at least one person.” Regardless of where Rinpoche is, he will always find somebody to help. In the photo above, Rinpoche was distributing food to the poor of Bodhgaya, India. Later on, Rinpoche would say that his experiences as a homeless teenager in the US, and his time in the...
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（译文请往下阅读） This is a warehouse full of Buddhist and non-Buddhist items, it is huge, but it is not the merchandise for any online shop, these are GIFTS, to be given out for free, these are His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche’s gifts to the world. Tsem Rinpoche first came to Malaysia 23 years ago, with only two suitcases of his monk robes, toiletries, Dharma books, and some protection chakras and talisman to give away to people, that’s all, no sponsor, no friends, no …students, no nothing. But Rinpoche has Dharma knowledge, kindness and c...
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（译文请往下阅读） The Rain Stopper A few years ago, I think in 2005, His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche and a few of us went to Kathmandu, Nepal to buy Buddha statues for our outlets in Malaysia, it was around July and it was a rainy season in Nepal, so it rained almost daily during the daytime and it made the shopping trip somewhat troublesome, because the statue shops in Nepal are mostly in Boudanath and it was not a covered shopping mall, you have to go from shop to shop in the rain. We were staying in Hyatt Regency Kathmandu then and it was raining quite h...
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（译文请往下阅读） His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche had a bad childhood, a really bad one. Born out of wedlock, his parents abandoned him, his grandmother paid USD$50 a month to a foster family to take care of him, the foster family abused him, beat him, punished him to kneel on rice grains for hours, starved him until he had to steal bread from shops to feed himself, and when the foster family did not starve him, they fed him white rice mixed with sugar until his teeth were rotten, and when Rinpoche’s grandmother bought him a wooden-horse toy, the fo...
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Being Rinpoche’s personal attendant means that I am able to witness real Dharma in action, both on and off the throne. I consider myself extremely fortunate, and at the same time it is also a great challenge to instil Dharma in my life 24/7. Over the years I have witnessed many cases of how Rinpoche helped many people in both worldly and supramundane ways, so I decided to have these stories told in comic form for the wider audience. It is my wish that through these stories many will be inspired to achieve the state of compassion and attai...
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Tsem Rinpoche was travelling in Willow Creek, Northern California a few weeks ago. We were there to take in the various sights and areas that Rinpoche had been reading about since he was a child. It was a very exciting trip for everyone, especially for Rinpoche, because for many years now Rinpoche had spoken...
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(Posted by Pastor Seng Piow) Tsem Rinpoche is always on the lookout for needy people on the streets, be it beggars or poor street sellers…Rinpoche will buy food for them, or buy their merchandise in bulk to help those who are poor but sincere so that they can go home early and rest. This...
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