Dear pastors,
what is the way to begin to practice and learning the teachings? I have practice meditation before and kundalini yoga years ago, now I finally began to read the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying and I really would like to learn more in practice. I have so many questions too, I would like to find a master maybe, I live in Shanghai and I guess China is not the easiest place to find a Buddhist master, but I am in the search, there must be someone if not here, near by. I also read that Tsem Rimpoche Foundation helps people in Shanghai, so maybe there's a way for me to reach your people here and maybe even to find a master. Any suggestion and guidance will be most welcomed.

Have a beautiful day,
Mache

who is one on botttom of Dorje Shugden brass statue sold on dorjeshugen online shop?I'd like to know name meaning of.

Sorry is 3 face 6 arm manjushri http://www.fodian.net/world/manjusri/6a/manjusri_6a5.jpg

May I know what is the heart mantra for six arm manjushri? Is it still on ah ra ba sa na dhi? Can you tell kindly tell me as I am dyingly attracted to it but I can't find the mantra. Tq in advance.

dear tsemrinpoche !! i felt so sad reading your article about the plea to his holiness the Dalai lama , few years ago i saw your video in which you praised his holiness like in the mind of viewers like me have no question about your love and respect for him , but reading this article and watching the video its so sad that even you cant understand his holiness , he as a religious leader he has been serving millions around the globe and as a political leader since a ver y young age he has been working tiredlessly for his people including dorjee shugten practitioners !!! i'm a non shugten practitioner but i've no ill feelings for them untill they start killing people , untill they start threating people , being a budhist and specially a tibetan i can understand some of shugten practioners hardships but i dont think this is how they should make their voice heard , tsem rinpoche if you are aware of these shugten practioners slogan to protest against his holiness i've no doubt even you will disagree with them .
for tibetans , for us this is not the time for division but its time for unite to fight our own cause , for free tibet , in which they have been absent for many years and i hate to see they protest against his holiness while not a single protest against CCP for invading our country including shugten practioner's , they always deny of support from CCP , prove it then come out every time when we go to protest , oraginize some movement from your side to protest against CCP , prove it and its worth to prove , lastly i want to take a line from your article " Because when we use impolite messages, and we start to point at people’s personal so-called downfalls that we perceive – whether existing or not – and when we start calling people negative names all the time, what happens is that people start to not see what you are standing up for" , please let your fellow shugten practitioners to read this and absorb this and understand this . lastly humble speech and humble writing does not make one respectful and humble rather then humble act !
thank you.

Dear Pastors!

I would like to ask some advice. If I have only buddhist refuge what kind of meditation and prayers/sadhanas can I practice? In my life I practice a little shine and more little Lojong. I would like to built up my daily practice but I dont know how should I begin. Yesterday Rinpoche shares his facebook site Tsongkhapa practice. May I practice this without empowerment?

Respectfully Thanks all of you

Dear Pastors,

I was wondering how one could tell if they are or were headed towards full Enlightenment? It makes sense that there is purification in this lifetime. How can one tell when or if they are drawing near to the end of rebirth (not necessarily the end of life)?

Thank you for your last advice!

Tashi dhelek!
Rinpochela I too am a ghelugpa monk practing in India I m very much inspired by dorje sugden. I had similar incidents in my early childhood now I'm of 15 but yet not ordained. I m in search of teacher will u accept me as your student.will you ordinate me….?
I hope for good.

Pastors,

Thank you very much for your kind words. They have indeed been helpful.

I was just wondering if there were any particular pujas or rituals I may do to increase the odds of my success. I'd really like to help others, if it is possible, and I'd rather try than not. If there's no harm in doing no harm to help, I'd rather do that than not help and possibly cause harm onto others. It should be noted here that I don't have a formal teacher and am not/will not be around places that have centers for me to go visit and meet with Lamas present. I met one Lama while in college (his name was Tenzin Yingyen, and was a direct pupil of HH the Dalai Lama. I've already reached out to him, but he says he is currently very busy and cannot help much (plus, I don't know how he feels about the Shugden question and I don't want to stir the pot in that respect either). Any advice that you may be able to give to help would be very much appreciated. Thank you!

Dear Pastors,

For some reason my intuition keeps telling me that a particular woman will come back into my life in the indefinite future. I would not call my condition suffering, in the sense that I'm constantly clinging or grasping to her memory. The cage has been broken for some many years now; I only write about her from time to time because it helps get my thoughts out and my feelings back into balance. I just wish I could shake the deep, gut feeling that I have that she'll eventually be back in my life, maybe not in the same form or condition as she was when we met, but still back in my life nonetheless as a friend, an accomplice, a wild lover and partner in this adventure through the universe that we're both on. I have let her go effectively in every way possible. Why is it that I keep having this unshakeable feeling that she'll be back?

You each and all have been helpful in the past. I wish I could afford to give you all another donation or something as a token of my real appreciation for what you do. Thanks.

Dear Dharma Masters,
How do I worship the Pancharaksha Goddesses , Do I need any initiation for the same ? I'm going through a very bad planetary phase and my health and life are in a deplorable plight..Kindly advise.

Many Thanks

Dear pastors,
I do Tsongkhapa's Guru Yoga as my daily practice. I have not yet recieved Tsongkhapa's empowerment, but I have recieved Buddha Prajnaparamita's as well as Buddha Shakyamuni's. I think I read somewhere that action Tantra empowerments from certain Buddha families sometimes also come with permission to self generate as a Buddha other than the one explicitly granted during empowerment. With these empowerments would it be appropriate for me to do the self generation practice of Tsongkhapa?
With love and as always, thank you for your wisdom.

Good afternoon Pastors,

I know I have recently posted a question here, but I was wondering if I should make contact with a certain person in the UK about my Buddhist experiences? Here is his website where it details his experiences and the teachers he received training from: http://www.vessantara.net/ I will wait for your permission before initiating contact with him.

Thank you for all that you do!

Hello there, I was wondering if you could do a video or mp3 on the correct pronunciation of the 21 Tara names and mantras. I have been doing the Green Tara practice for over a year and had my empowerment in April. I have learned the 21 praises to Tara the colors and meanings for each one however I would now like to associate the mantras with them. I have them on paper but I want to make sure I say them right.

Warmest Regards,

WHO IS THE EXCELLENT GOD TO PRAY AND DO MANTRA?

Good (morning) Pastors,

I was wondering if there was any specific practices or rituals I could do to ensure that this lifetime passes as smoothly as possible for me while still enabling me to achieve Enlightenment at the end of it?

To give you a little history: I came to Buddhism when I was about 19 years old after having been rejected by someone I love. I am now 25 and finishing up a Master's degree in Public Administration. I have been developing in my mind a new ethic and logic to governing, which would make the practice of governing a society a scientific practice akin to the practice of medicine (from a combined Tibetan and Western view of medicine). I was wondering if there was anything I could do now to ensure that I am successful at this attempt to really change how things are done in our governments and how our governments relate and work with their own societies and with other societies and governments around the world and throughout the universe? Any practical or spiritual advice would be most welcome. I am concerned that by failing to do this, albeit large, task in this lifetime will have profound negative consequences on my own prospects in the future and for all other living beings in this universe. I have broken the task down into small pieces (really, it's just a question of being listened to by the right people at the right time). I'm just very uncertain about whether or not I will be able to accomplish this task in this lifetime. I have always been drawn to the world of current events and government as far back as I can remember. I would just love to be able to apply what I've found to be true to the real world. Please feel free to test, question, and poke holes in my ideas in order to strengthen them.

I really hope you're able to help me pull this off, since I am so uncertain that I'll be able to.

With all the respect and love in the universe, thank you for your time.

would i become a multi-millionaire? When is the exact time?

hi there pastor, i would like to ask, i bought a buddha pendant from Nepalese shop at petaling street. i don't know where the pendant from (it's a thai brass buddha), i just chant shakyamuni buddha mantra, chenrezig mantra and dorje shugden mantra 7 times each and blow on it. is it ok to "bless" that way and wear it?

I heard that offering of seven bowl to the gods is that when lord buddha sakyamuni was born, he walk seven steps and he just fall down…i am in dilemma.

what are the diffrence for these 2 Dorje Shungden Mantras and which emanation does it reffers to ?

1. OM BENZA WIKI BITANA SHATROO MARAYA PET
2.OM BENZA WIKI BITANA RAKYA RAKYA HUNG
3. Om Benza wiki Bitana Soha

for Demonic attacks which mantra can be chanted and how many times should it be chanted .