A 1 in 1000 Miracle | 一个千分之一的奇迹
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“I went back to the hospital for follow-up check-up, and the oncologist told me that I have no cancer now, and for my case it is very rare for the cancer to disappear completely, THE CHANCE IS ONE IN A THOUSAND CASES, the doctors even said they wanted to put my case on the medical journal.”
(Prepared by Pastor Seng Piow and Pastor Yek Yee)
I’m Adeline Tan, a long time student of His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche. I met Rinpoche in 1992 on his first visit to Malaysia, then Rinpoche invited me to his monastery the following year and I stayed in his Tsem Ladrang in Gaden Monastery for 2 weeks.
2 years later, I joined Rinpoche and his beloved late Guru His Eminence Kensur Jampa Yeshe Rinpoche for a pilgrimage tour to Bodhgaya, Vulture’s Peak, Varanasi, Dharamsala and many other holy places in India. While we were in Bodhgaya, I saw many sangha members, lay people and visitors doing full body prostration in the compound of the Mahabodhi Stupa and I asked Rinpoche why were they doing that, Rinpoche replied that it is to purify our negative karma, especially body karma.
A few of us were very fortunate that day. We managed to take our refuge vows with the two highly attained lamas inside the stupa in front of Lord Buddha Shakyamuni’s statue just before the closing time of the stupa, no other visitors, just the few of us.
Upon returning home from the 1-month pilgrimage tour all over India, I started doing full prostration in my house (at that time, Kechara House has not established yet). When Rinpoche came to know that I was doing full prostration when he revisited Malaysia a year later, he was very pleased and one day Rinpoche and a few of his assistants helped me to set up a beautiful altar in my room and told me to finish the 100,000 prostrations plus the daily sadhana (to recite Migtsema prayer and the protector mantra) without breaking the continuum. It took me 8 years to complete 100,000 full prostration, 1 million Migtsema prayer and 3 million protector mantra. In the same year, Kechara House was established. Rinpoche then asked me to sponsor the Buddha statues at Kechara House, the bigger the better, for the main prayer hall, and also to invite small statues for my altar in my house. I have 3 altars in my house now. I followed what Rinpoche asked me to do. The reason I mentioned all these is because these have helped me to overcome a lot of my obstacles and purified my negative karma in the later part of my life.
5 year ago (2009), one day after praying and cleaning my beloved late parents’ and grandmother’s grave during Qing Ming (Tomb-sweeping Day), I developed a sore throat and fever the next day, my voice became hoarse, so I went to see the family physician and after taking the antibiotic, my fever subsided, but my voice remained hoarse and sometimes there was no voice at all. I also noticed that when I drank water, I would easily get choked; when I ate, the food would get stuck in my chest, worse than the feeling of heartburn. This condition persisted for more than a month. Finally I went to see a specialist in the private hospital at the advice of my boss. They did MRI and endoscopy scan on me. It was through the endoscope that one large malignant growth was found in my lower oesophagus, and it was bleeding inside that caused me to become anaemic.
I went to see a surgeon too, but he told me the growth was not operable, so the only thing the doctor could do was to shrink the growth. The oncologist told me it was a cancer of 3rd stage and above, and needed 6 cycles of chemotherapy. Just a few days before Wesak day in 2009, I started my first chemo.
At the same time Tsem Rinpoche did divination for me, his divination said it would be very difficult, unless I followed his instruction 100% and all the way. Rinpoche gave me a hug and asked me if I would follow his advice, I said yes. Then Rinpoche kindly advised me on what pujas I had to do in Gaden Monastery (at that time there was no Kechara Puja House yet), and Rinpoche also lit a lot of candles and prayed for me in his Ladrang. Besides, animal liberation was also done for me.
Due to the seriousness of my illness, the doctor had to give me very strong chemotherapy treatment. I wanted to stop the treatment as I could not stand the gruelling treatment of chemotherapy after the 3rd cycle, but through Rinpoche’s kindness, blessing, very strong prayers for me, as well as my sister’s great care and the encouragement from my family members, I continued the treatment for 9 months. One year after the completion of the chemo, my health condition started to improve and I gained back some strength. During the chemotherapy, sometimes I didn’t even have the energy and strength to do my daily sadhana, that was how weak I was.
Through the power of the pujas done in Gaden Monastery monthly for 9 months, and Rinpoche’s care and blessing, I managed to pull through those difficult times. Rinpoche also told me that what I had done years ago – the millions of mantra recitations, sponsoring big Buddha statues and doing 100,000 full prostration, had helped me through my illness by purifying my karma tremendously.
2 months ago, I went back to the hospital for follow-up check-up, and the oncologist told me that I have no cancer now, and for my case it is very rare for the cancer to disappear completely, THE CHANCE IS ONE IN A THOUSAND CASES, the doctors even said they wanted to put my case in the medical journal.
Now, I am volunteering full-time in Kechara Puja House from Monday to Satuday, and I attend Dharma class on Sunday. I now truly believe the power of mantras and the pujas, as well as the powerful effect of full prostration in front of holy enlightened beings and also sponsoring Buddha statues. By doing so we can really purify our severe negative karma.
I sincerely thank Rinpoche from the depths of my heart for giving me a new lease of life. Kechara is my spiritual home now, thank you once again.
Adeline Tan
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（罗胜彪讲法师和郭月谊讲法师联合报导）
“我回去做健康检查, 肿瘤科医生告诉我，我已经没有癌症了。以我的情况来说，癌症彻底消失是非常罕见的, 它只有千分之一的可能性，医生还说他们要把我的个案发表在医学杂志里。”
我是 Adeline Tan 陈桂霞, 是尊贵的詹杜固仁波切的多年弟子。我在1992年仁波切第一次访问马来西亚时会见了仁波切。一年过后, 仁波切邀请我到他在印度甘丹寺的詹拉章住两周。
两年过后, 我加入了仁波切和他敬爱的已故上师尊贵的堪殊仁波切的印度朝圣之旅,去了菩提伽耶、灵鹫山、瓦拉纳西、达兰萨拉等诸多圣地。在菩提迦耶，我看到许多僧人、信徒和游客在摩诃菩提佛塔范围内做大礼拜, 我便问仁波切他们为何这样做? 仁波切回答说，这是为了净化我们的业障，特别是身体的业障。
那一天，我们很幸运能在佛塔内的释迦牟尼佛像前得到这两位高僧授皈依。由于当时已快关门, 佛塔内只有我们几个人，没有其他游客。
从印度朝圣之旅回国后, 我开始在家做大礼拜（当时克切拉佛教中心还未成立）。一年后当仁波切再次到访马来西亚时，在得知我在做大礼拜后, 他很是高兴。有一天, 仁波切和几位助理到我家帮我在我房里设立了一个美丽庄严的佛坛，并指示我要完成十万个大礼拜和不间断的做日常仪轨（念诵缘悲经Migtsema和护法心咒）。
我总共用了8年的时间才完成了十万个大礼拜，念诵一百万遍缘悲经和三百万遍护法心咒。同年, 克切拉佛教中心成立了，仁波切要我赞助大殿佛像，越大越好，并邀请小佛像到我家佛坛。现在我家里有三个佛坛。我一一遵从了仁波切指示我做的事。我提起这些，是因为它帮助我在生命的后半生克服了很多障碍和净化业障。
五年前（2009年），在清明节我为敬爱的已故父母和奶奶扫墓后的第二天，我喉咙发炎，而且声音变得沙哑。于是我去看家庭医生。在服用抗生素后，我退烧了, 但我的声音仍然沙哑，有时甚至完全失去声音。同时我也注意到，当我喝水时，我会被哽到，当我吃东西时，食物会堵在我的胸口，感觉比胃灼热更糟糕。 这种状况持续了一个多月。在我老板的建议下, 我到私人医院去看专科医生。医生为我做了磁共振成像(MRI)和内视镜检查。通过内视镜，发现了一个体积大的恶性肿瘤在我的食道下段，它的内出血导致我经常贫血。
我也去咨询外科医生，但他告诉我不能动手术。 医生说唯一可做的，是尝试将肿瘤缩小。肿瘤科医生告诉我，这是第3期以上的癌症肿瘤了，需要化疗6个周期。在2009年卫塞节前几天，我开始了我的第一次化疗。
与此同时，詹杜固仁波切很慈悲地为我做占卜，结果显示将会很困难，除非我自始至终和100%遵从他的指示去做。仁波切给了我一个关怀的拥抱，问我答应吗？我说我完全答应。接下来仁波切便指示我需要在甘丹寺做一些法会 (当时克切拉法会小组还未成立），仁波切也为我大量的对佛菩萨供灯，并在他的拉章为我祈祷，还有进行放生活动。
由于我的病情严重，医生给我很强烈的化疗治疗。在第3周期后，我想停止治疗，因为我已受不了这种痛苦的治疗，但通过仁波切的慈悲、祝福、强而有力的祈祷，还有我姐姐的极大关怀和家庭成员的鼓励下，我持续了9个月的化疗。在完成化疗的一年后，我的健康状况开始好转，也恢复了精力。在化疗期间，我有时虚弱得甚至没有力气做我的日常仪轨。
通过在甘丹寺进行了9个月的法会和仁波切的关怀，我渡过了这个难关。仁波切也告诉我，我以前上百万次的心咒念诵，为克切拉佛教中心赞助大佛像和十万次的大礼拜，净化了我的业障，让我得以逃过一劫。
两个月前, 我回去做健康检查, 肿瘤科医生告诉我，我已经没有癌症了。以我的情况来说，癌症彻底消失是非常罕见的, 它只有千分之一的可能性，医生还说他们要把我的个案发表在医学杂志里。
现在, 我周一至周六在克切拉佛教中心法会小组做全职义工，周日则参加佛学班。我现在真的相信咒语和法会的威力，还有在神圣的觉悟者圣像前做大礼拜和赞助佛像，确实可以帮助净化我们极深重的业障。
我衷心感谢尊贵的詹杜固仁波切赐予我新的生命。现在克切拉已是我的心灵之家。再次感谢大家。
Adeline Tan 陈桂霞
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Dear Adeline,
I’ve met you few times and and I think you are a person who will do more quietly without the need of acknowledgement from others. After all, Dharma is about us transforming internally although outwardly we can remain as the same person as we were. You are indeed so lucky to be near Dharma and of course, the most important thing is becoming Rinpoche’s student. May you have long life and great health for years to come.
Nice lady. The only thing that matters are the six paramitas. And Tsem Rinpoche is well versed in them, well practised in them. So may we all be like him too.
现在这时候见过陈桂霞的人应该很难相信她曾经患癌，而且是生病几年后癌细胞彻底从她身上消失。除了“奇迹”两个字，大概也想不到这是如何发生在她身上——千分之一的康复机会。我相信是陈桂霞的上师依止心，让她遵照上师的任何指示－－即便和特别在生病前，才成功帮助自己消除了业障。陈桂霞的故事告诉我们，上师当然可以慈悲的帮助我们，给我们指点迷津，然而如果我们不身体力行、一心一意去实践的话，全宇宙再棒的“药方”也帮不了我们。
I rejoice for Adeline because life is precious and suffering cancer can be one of the most traumatic experience one has to go through. It is wonderful that Adeline used her miraculous recovery from cancer as proof of the power of having faith in the Guru and following the Guru’s kind and wise guidance.
I am always grateful to Tsem Rinpoche because it is through Rinpoche’s kindness that I have witnesses people heal and recover physically, emotionally, financially and socially (in the form of building better relationships). It is also through the wisdom and compassion of Rinpoche that we have team of pastors who are also turning the wheel of dharma and extending support and help to others.
Once again, we see the greatness of the Dharma in tangible form.
As said, the truth of the path to the cessation of suffering has its very root, i.e compassion. This involves developing a mind of kindness and kindheartedness – that is to say, developing a motivation towards the service and benefit of others always. In this respect,it is of a very good Karmic opportunity for our sister Adeline Tan to have met our compassionate Guru, Rinpoche, as a result of which, she is today confirmed to have been miraculously cured of her cancerous sickness! We thank Rinpoche from the bottom of our hearts for precipitating a successful cure for her very serious illness. May all holy teachers have long lives to remain in this Universe to bring the brightness of the teachings of Lord Tsongkhapa to continously dissipate the veil of darkness and sufferings of the three realms. Please grant us blessings that all outer and inner hindrances of all sentient beings be fully pacified. Om mani padme hung.
Thanks for sharing . Adeline ‘s true story inspired us how important to have strong and undoubtedly Guru devotion . Due to her strong faith,she have built up a merits stock to back her up when she was so sick . I still remember she offer a set of Tsongkhapa and heart son statue to KHJB ,she he never say no or have doubt when offer up those statue which quite costly . I m so happy for her of her full recovery and she can continue doing dharma works..Rejoice Adeline !
Thank you Grace, it is an honour for me to do so.
謝謝Adeline Tan分享这鼓舞人心的真实事故。只有千分之一的微弱康復機會，都能遇着，這的確是一個奇蹟，但並不是偶然。這也凸显绝对依止上師，依教奉行的至關重要性。我真佩服你對Rinpoche 给于的教诲及建议都一一付諸行動，將之完成，毅志力和忠誠心可是我们学习的模楷。
感谢仁波切。
Thank you all for your well wishes and the encouragements. Now is the time to repay our Guru’s kindness by doing more dharma work to benefit others and to transform our mind by practice.
加油
Truly rejoice to hear about this news, Adeline. It is indeed miracles that even the medical science could not explain this. Adeline, thank you for showing to us on a true example of a Guru Devotion, and also a disciple of example to us. Om Mani Pedme Hum.
The Guru is extremely kind and compassionate.He will not abandon us even though we and cling to habitual thoughts and actions. Thank you Adeline for this heartfelt sharing. May you continue to have good health and benefit others with Dharma work.
Adeline Tan’s story is truly heartwarming. Her miraculous recovery owes itself to our Guru , Tsem Rinpoche’s compassion and to Adeline’s own resolute faith and Guru Devotion. It was most fortunate that she had met Rinpoche at the time when her karma ripened to manifest as her cancer, which was in its third stage already.
She persistently followed her Guru’s instructions, no matter what. In that way, she purified her negative karma and accumulated great merits, which translated into her miraculous cure.
Thank you , Adeline, for sharing the story, and P Seng Piow and P Yek Yee for helping her to get her wonderful story told.
It’s heartwarming to hear that you, Adeline Tan has successfully conquer such a difficult situation in your life. Not only did you get back your health but you also have forged stronger bond with your guru. My mother who has suffered from colon cancer previously also through rinpoche’s instructions and blessings successfully won over her deadly disease. And she has fully recovered now.
I’m happy for you and rejoice for your unshakable guru devotion and achievement 😀
Adeline Tan is very lucky to have met her Guru H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche to teach her the methods of countering the ripening of her karma.
The miracle happened because she followed her Guru’s instructions thus collected enough merits to save her life. And due to the blessings of her Guru who carries the blessings of all the Buddhas from the unbroken lineage since Buddha Shakyamuni.
How compassionate is the Guru! We will not be able to repay all our Guru’s kindness but we must attempt to do so by engaging in Dharma activities sincerely to benefit others and most importantly to transform our mind to be less self-cherishing.
Thank you Adeline for sharing your inspiring story. It truly is a miracle, and yes we are indeed very fortunate to have met Rinpoche who truly is here to benefit us. How lucky you were able to travel with 2 living Buddhas , Tsem Rinpoche and His Guru Kensur Jampa Yeshe all over India and receiving all the blessings! I admire your faith and devotion in applying the teachings and listening to Guru’s advice and hence you are now a living walking talking testament to many, that following Guru’s instructions is crucial.
Yes many times we may not quite understand why Rinpoche makes us do certain things and sometimes it may seem weird even, but truth is there is definitely good reasons behind it. Nothing the Guru does is ever random or to hurt anyone, it is all part of the purification process or training and we just need to trust so that we can overcome our obstacles. I for one have many of such experience too. So Thank you again for your honest story and great reminder to all students on the importance of following the Guru advice!
Thank you Adeline Tan, Pastor Seng Piow, Pastor Yek Yee for sharing this miracle story with all of us.
Thank you Adeline Tan for sharing with us your true story and important of Guru devotion. Wish you healthy and continue to do more dharma work to benefit others.
Congrats to Adeline Tan! I am glad this medical miracle happened!
When we trust our Guru fully and devote ourselves to following our Guru’s advice, miracles do happen.
When we are told to do something NOW… we may not understand… but later part of our lives… we will know the significance of following through what our Guru told us.
Adeline followed strictly what Rinpoche told her and her karma was purified…without Rinpoche’s advice and protection, I cannot imagine what will happen.
Thank you Rinpoche.
Thank you Edwin, we must follow Rinpoche’s instruction and practice Guru devotion.Rinpoche is the most compassionate and caring person i have ever met in my life.