Dear Pastors,

in your opinion, do people from other religions have access to salvation without converting to Buddhism?

Thank you,
Roger

Hi
For the practice of amitayus is it difficult to obttain? For me amitayus is great that can bring us to nibbana his teachings base on eight fold path. What is eight fold path?…..

Hi,

I was watching Rinpoche Comic Tantra and wonder if you can elaborate on what is another way with the same merit of offering 100,000 butter lamps/candles to the Buddhas. Please help and thank you so much

recently i was doing the 35 buddha practice and hours after the rite my left eye got swollen what could this mean

dear pastors…..i am a buddhist new to the gelukpa lineage…i have had Nyingma
and Kagyu teachers…but i found i love Lord Tsongkhapa. i find the more i pray
and study the more flaws and faults i find in myself…so of which are so glaring
i dont know why i didnt see them earlier.

i am so sorry for my errors…..some can be fixed….some cannot…how can if find
forgiveness?

Dear Rinpoche, dear Pastors,
Earlier Rinpoche advised me to say indefinite number of Dukkar mantras for my cat which acts as possessed from time to time…he said “Dukkar mantras should help” and that it might be related with negative entity.
Than this year in May I decided to say 100 k Dukkar mantras. After I said exactly 450 malas of Dukkar I had a strange dream in which I was bound by ropes in a narrow corner of a room. I turned into Dukkar and many hands grew out of me. I became angry for that unjustice and my many hands went to all corners of the world and caused a big earthquake. When I awoke some time later at 17 o’clock a thunderbolt struck my house and my router, TV and phone burned. also another person in the building suffered damage and the elevator burned too…I wonder is this a coincidence or should I do something about it? (I finished the 100k mantras of Dukkar a few days ago).
Thank you very much in advance!

Dear Rinpoche, I have been so lucky to have taken teachings and empowerment from HE Chodon Rinpoche. These teachings were on calm abiding and vipassana, Herruka Empowerment and teachings on the 6 yogas of Naropa. It was such an amazing experience, and I learnt so much from these teachings. The only thing is now, I don't know what to do with them and how I should go forward to put these teachings into practice. I have try very hard to make sure I keep my vow and commitments pure, but I know that is not enough and I want enlightenment. Can you please help? What is my next step?

I read thru the transcript of Tsem Rimpoche on The Dying Process. It is very interesting. I have a question about an experience I had when I was about 10 yrs old. Below is what happened. My question is : what stage was I in the dying process? I know I didn't go thru all parts of it or to the end but at what stage was I in? Thank you very much in advance.

I was playing with my cousins in a river (in Penang). My aunty was washing
clothes. Then I heard an internal voice calling me to go to the dark coloured part of the river
(deeper end). I couldn't swim but i went without fear. And this was what I experienced
I FELT THE MOST PEACEFUL AND SERENE SLUMBER AND DIDN'T WANT TO WAKE UP.
When I woke up my aunty has already saved me. According to her she saw me struggling
in the river and I was drowning but I NEVER FELT I WAS STRUGGLING OR DROWNING BUT
JUST THE MOST PEACEFUL SLEEP. I DIDN'T WANT TO WAKE UP ACTUALLY. Now I know the
voice calling me was the 'bad spirit'.

Dear Pastors

I have realized today, that i am not making enough money to meet the taxes on my house in September, because i am not getting enough work. i am in a state of fear and anxiety, but i did start some new prayers last night. I can feel “success’ around me, but my mind goes into doubt and pain, suddenly at times! I am so young and energetic….i don’t know why i cannot stay on top of my responsibilities……i don’t know what i will do about the money!

Sometimes i think i am TOO spiritual, and think that Heaven will just work everything out for me. I see MANY unexpected miracles in my life, but if i manage to get through this, somehow, i don’t think i will ever doubt again.

There are prayers and meditations i am starting to use. I also do Siddha Yoga (Kundalini Yoga)

and i invoke a different Archangel and a Boddhisattva every month,
and work on the Virtues and Vices. i also do self-psychology based on the Tibetan esoteric methods of Inner-Integration..

The new meditations keep me lifted, but i may be fooling myself to think everything is going to work out! I want to make a good livng and help people whie i am, but it seems i am disconnected with reality maybe, or just too impractical…….i don’t know. I want my living to support my Dharma and spiritual practice.

Bless you all and aall, Rinpoche and the Sangha!
I don’t want to cancel my prayers with doubt, ut some days it is hard to control!

Rinpoche you must be busy to still not answer the questions here. I will patiently wait to read it as your views are very enlightening to say the least.

Good morning! Im Adrian A. Arpon from Phillipines. Please help me understand about Buddism.

Hi, I want to ask you about my visions- I see great white lotus , it was small at first, but started to grow and now I see it to be bugger than the planet Earth, it changed me, it change everything in a positive way, it is filled with love, light, peace…and when I'm there I see an ocean, dolphins, rainbow, big sun, a garden , swans and everything is full with joy and peace. I live in Bulgaria and I still don't know why I see this, I'm glad about this, I feel like home there, but can you tell me why I see this and what does it mean? What can do you know about this?

WHAT MEANS RINPOCHE? FROM WHERE THIS WORD CAME? ARE YOU BUDHIST?

P.S. : If getting one of the hand-made chakras from Vajra Secrets would make the change for me, i could get one if it were one of the inexpensive ones.

Peace, and thank you so much.

Dear Pastors

I am wondering if Dear Rinpoche could do a divination for me? Something is wrong.

I am a very smart person, my "saint" is Kwan Yin, i am working as well as i can to transform my psychology with practices, i am influenced by Heaven Chi at all times and practice Kundalini Yoga every day……..Still, something creates irrational fear in me, i live in clutter instead of the way i used to live in simplicity, my discipline is very bad in practicing the assignments of my spiritual healer's school, and i don't take on my life dynamically anymore. I feel stuck, static, panicky, and lose my inspiration to create my life the way i was able to before.

I am even trying to start a business, but feel unable to do the work of promoting it. Early in my life, this would have seemed like fun…….now only sometimes.

I have MANY gifts, mostly supernatural and interpersonal to help Humanity, but i seem to be surrounded by limits that i cannot understand. I pray for freedom ALL the time, and i know i am free wherever i am, but i cannot feel it.

I did have a problem with a "density" awhile back (a mild possession), and i am wondering if this is what is suppressing my will, making me inactive and afraid to go forward? My spiritual master says it is not, and that it has probably left me, but SOMETHING is wrong.

There are also illnesses that won't heal, even though i can heal other people, and i waste many hours and days doing useless things, until it is time to go to work or to the store.

I am not a lazy person, but i live like a lazy, irresponsible, neglectful person. This not me at all. I am a dancer, writer, artist, i used to read a lot….now, none of that. I also know a lot about food and nutrition, but i eat what is handy, and not always organic or healthy.

If the cure for this is mantra with a mala, i may not be able to do it, but i can do a mantra 24 hours a day if necessary. More practices on top of the ones i am already not doing well with, seems overwhelmingly
like a burden right now.

I am also afraid of financial failure, because i am not getting enough work to make ends meet. I am afraid of getting a regular job, because it will limit the per diem jobs i get each week that pay a lot per hour. So, my own business would be the best, which i would really love, and am trying to do, mostly from home.

I have also consulted another Rinpoche, who has not answered me yet, then i noticed this section on Rinpoche Tsem's page. Also, the name i enter below is not my real name.

Bless you for whatever can be done….i think the world needs me now.

LOve and Blessings

Dear pastors,

First of all, please allow me to express my query in Mandarin which is more fluent as compared to my poor English.

问题：

在几年前，我的一位朋友在一间佛堂里的礼品店，请了一尊小佛像，但她未曾供养，而只是当作为装饰品。

不过，很不幸，她不小心弄断小佛像的一只手。。

最近，她很想请走小佛像，所以她就告诉我，希望可以帮到她。

由于我的佛知识有限，所以谨此请示pastors，希望能解答她的问题。

Your earliest reply will be much appreciated. Thank you.

why are you killings muslims in burma

Can I have a phone call appointment with one of the pastor who can speak Mandarin?

Dear pastors, I am a vegetarian, however at times when I have bad migraines I have had to take medication that contains gelatin. Does this mean I am breaking my vegetarian vows?
Many thanks for taking time to answer my questions,
Amy

I don't have a question but I was wondering if you plan to open a center in California?