I enjoy receiving updates on the various Dharma activities that takes place in the different Kechara departments and study groups. Recently, I received news on our study group in the Southern most state of Malaysia, Kechara House Johor Bahru (KHJB). They had invited a Dorje Shugden statue to their center so that the people...
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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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Dec 30, 2012 (By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Henry, I am happy to see your practice. It’s ‘funny’, but at the time of death, considering all of our activities in our lifetime, the ‘activity’ below are the ONLY ACTIONS that will help you at the decisive moment of death. When you do your daily practices as...
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(By Pastor Loh Seng Piow) His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche comes from Gaden Monastery, Gaden is a monastic university, the monks study and debate daily besides praying. Their extensive syllabus covers various subjects from Tibetan history, literature, poetry, grammar, English, Mathematics, thangka painting, torma making, tailoring, calligraphy, sand mandala creation to the highest of Buddhist philosophy. Throughout the years, Tsem Rinpoche has always supported the monastery’s education department by raising fund for them to purchase new books f...
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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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Dear students and friends, In January, I blogged about a group of Young Adults and Kids from Kechara, which we fondly call the YAKs! Every 2 months, on a Sunday, from 10am to 5pm, the YAKs will set up their stall at the Amcorp Mall flea market where they sell various interesting items to...
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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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Dear friends around the world, It made me happy to see these wonderful and inspiring publications. It gives me great pleasure to share with you about the recent publications of our Kechara works in Indonesia started by a good friend of mine. I have known Valentina for the last 9 years, she have always been...
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I will heed Rinpoche’s advice: “Control the anger till there is nothing to control. You can control your food intake, walking, urinating, defecating, spending, entertainment so why not anger”. All of us except the holy attained Masters have anger. I used to get upset and angry when my expectations were not met, but...
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Many may know one of my students, Wai Meng, from his online interactions. Wai Meng is a long time student of mine, and he has a strong passion towards environmental conservation... In 2010, he started an initiative within the Kechara organzation called the Kechara Earth Project (KEP)...
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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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Footage of His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche debating with his students. It is a common practice in the monasteries for monks to debate each other to insure knowledge and complete understanding, as part of Dharma teaching. Watch Rinpoche debate students, with clarity in logic, passion, sharpness and quickness. And ultimately, it is Rinpoche’s compassion in...
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Dear Parents and friends, Years ago I conceptualized to have our young kids book a table and sell at the flea markets on a regular basis. I asked Ms. Sock Wan to be in charge and she has been doing this and the young folks have done a great job consistently. They rent a...
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Many of Tsem Rinpoche’s students live together in what are known as Dharma Houses. Very often, when students are moving in, Rinpoche comes to personally ensure that everything is set up properly so his students have a conducive, comfortable environment to live in. Rinpoche will go shopping with his students, arrange the furniture, organise...
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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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