(By Tsem Rinpoche and Seow Choong Liang) Buddhism in Mongolia The First Wave According to the Origins of Dharma in the Hor Regions by the great Mongolian scholar Lobsang Tamdrin, Buddhism was brought to the Hor Region (northern Kham, Tibet) during the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in three waves. The first wave was during...
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(A good friend to have) எனது குருவின் மறைவு என்னை மிகுந்த பாதிப்புக்கு உள்ளாக்கியது. சென்ற 30 வருடங்களாக புத்தரின் போதனைகளின் மூலம் நல்ல ஞானம் பெற்று நான் செல்லும் வழி எது என்று அறிந்து ஆறுதல் அடைந்தேன்.
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Dear friends, After my guru’s passing which affected me deeply, for the last 30 years I’ve found solace, direction, wisdom and solutions within the teachings of Lord Buddha. This has been my real refuge and continue to be and will always be. I trust Lord Buddha’s teachings completely amidst all the chaos in my...
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அன்பு நண்பர்களே, எனது குருவின் மறைவு என்னை மிகுந்த பாதிப்புக்கு உள்ளாக்கியது. சென்ற 30 வருடங்களாக
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Ucheyma's awe-inspiring depiction as a self-decapitating goddess has inspired generations of practitioners since the introduction of tantric practice in ancient India. Her practice had migrated north to Tibet...
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Years ago in Gaden Monastery I had a very vivid dream of a person giving me a painting of a Manjushri. This Manjushri was golden-orange in color, one face and two arms...
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(Auspicious Mongolian Omen) हामीसँग तपाईंको लागि अर्को रोचक छोटो पोष्ट छ। तपाईंहरूलाई थाहा नै छ हामीसँग शहरमा १३ ओटा विभाग भएको केचरा छ।
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(The Farm of Your Mind) माननीय श्री २५ छेम रिन्पोछे हाम्रो अध्यात्मका सल्लाहकार र दोर्जे शुग्देन हाम्रो धर्मको रक्षक भइदिनुभएकोमा केचरा धेरै भाग्यमानी छ। यति महान् र श्रेष्ठ गुरूसँग यस जीवनमा हाम्रो भेट हुन पाउनु भनेको हामी कति भाग्यमानी छौं भनी बुझेर हामीले सकेसम्म हाम्रा गुरूसँग राम्रो सम्बन्ध र राम्रो समय कायम राख्ने प्रयास...
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Mount Wutai, better known as Wutaishan or Five Peaked Mountain, is a sacred Buddhist mountain located in Shanxi Province, China. Mount Wutai is identified by its five flat-topped peaks which are strongly believed to be the earthly abodes of Lord Manjushri, the Buddha of Wisdom. Each peak is inhabited by a different form of Manjushri. On the south peak resides the white form of Manjushri called Jvanasattva(智慧文殊菩萨). On the peak itself, there is a temple called Puji Temple (普济寺) where they house the Jvanasattva statue. On the West Peak there is Fa...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) Thank you so much Pastor Shin, Beatrix, Pastor David, Abby, Pastor Lanse, Pastor Jean Ai and a few others for working these few days on getting the Manjushri post out. Thank you for having it translated into Chinese so many more can practice this sacred Manjushri. I know all of you have put in a lot of effort and late nights. Manjushri is very special to our Gelugpa lineage as he is in all lineages and traditions. It is the main Yidam of Lama Tsongkhapa and Manjushri confers all types of mental perfections to help u...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The Praise to Mañjuśrī ༄༅། །དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཡོན་ཏན་བཟང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟོད་པ། ། The Praise to Mañjuśrī: Glorious Wisdom’s Excellent Qualities རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། །ཤྲཱི་ཛྙཱ་ན་གུ་ཎ་བྷ་དྲ་ནཱ་མསྟུ་སྟི། ། In the language of India: śrī jñāna guṇa bhadra nāma stuti བོད་སྐད་དུ། །དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཡོན་ཏན་བཟང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟོད་པ། ། In the language of Tibet: dpal ye shes yon tan bzang po zhes bya ba’i bstod pa Begin Praise བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། chomden dé jampé yang la chaktsal lo Homage to the Lord Mañjughoṣa! གང་གི་བློ་གྲོས་...
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Oct 29, 2012 (By Tsem Rinpoche) I decided to give a White Manjushri practice to one of my students, Moh Mei, who joined the Ladrang a while ago. White Manjushri and all practices of Manjushri (or emanations of Manjushri) are very powerful for helping us to clear our delusions and ignorance, and helping us to...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) A few days ago, one of my students Bryan, sent me a very interesting image of a 1000-arm Manjushri!!! I have never seen this form of Manjushri before, and instantly fell in love with it!! I quickly got JJ and Bryan to help me find more information on this beautiful form...
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Dear Wendy, Thank you for sharing your talents and inspirations. I appreciate it very much. I want to share with the world your poem. Tsem Rinpoche Dear Rinpoche, After reading the tweets this morning, I was inspired to write the following poem. Thank you. With folded hands,Wendy ...
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