Atisha Dipamkara Shrijñana: The Reviver of Buddhism in Tibet
Atisha is considered one of the greatest Indian Buddhist masters of all time but it is his work in reviving pure Buddhism in Tibet that truly sets him apart...
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Atisha is considered one of the greatest Indian Buddhist masters of all time but it is his work in reviving pure Buddhism in Tibet that truly sets him apart...
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20年前,我们的上师尊贵的第廿五世詹杜固仁波切首次接获其上师的指示撰写传记。那个时候,仁波切婉拒上师的建议,并向上师表示无人对自己的故事感兴趣,
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(H.H. the 101st Gaden Trisur Rinpoche's Vajra Yogini Teachings and Text) སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༨ ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༦ ཚེས་ ༧ ཉིན། ༧འཇམ་མགོན་རྒྱལ་བའི་གདུང་ཚབ་ཁྲི་ཟུར་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་རྗེ་བཙུན་ལུང་རིག་རྣལ་རྒྱལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ཕེ་རིན་སི་ལ་ཡོད་པའི་ཁོང་གི་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ཐར་འདོད་གླིང་
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The video below shows a whale saving a woman from being attacked by a shark. Her name is Nan Hauser and she is a whale biologist. The most incredible...
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Carlos Castaneda was an American New Age author and a scholar of anthropology. He wrote a series of popular books that described his training and magical experiences in Toltec...
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(The 4th Zhabdrung Rinpoche of Bhutan and Dorje Shugden) འབྲུག་ཞེས་པའི་མིང་སྟོན་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས་མི་ཚོས་ས་ཐག་རིང་པོ་ཡིན་པ་དང་། ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡའི་ནང་ཚན་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ། རྫོང་ཆེན་པོ་རྙིང་པ་དཀར་པོ་ཡོད་པ། ཤིང་ནགས་གཙང་མ་སུ་ཞིག་ཀྱང་འགྲོ་མ་མྱོང་བའི་འཁོར་གཡུག་ཡག་པོ་ཡོད་པ།
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It has been over 20 years since our teacher His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche was first advised to write his biography. Back then, Rinpoche had humbly declined his...
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The wrathful goddess Drashi Lhamo is considered one of the minor forms of Palden Lhamo. She is worshipped mainly at Drashi Gon Temple in Lhasa, Tibet...
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Baba Sawan Singh Grewal, known as “The Great Master” to his followers, was a charismatic Indian saint of the Sikh faith. He was the spiritual successor to his teacher,...
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From 31st May to 2nd June 2018, H.H.the 101st Gaden Trisur Rinpoche gave a three-day teaching on the practice of Vajrayogini to a group of approximately 50 Sangha members...
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(中文翻译请往下看) Ramesh (the tall guard of Kechara Forest Retreat) told Pastor Niral that he used to see spirits along Jalan Chamang Road (the dark country road along Kechara Forest Retreat’s wall) in Bentong when he was patrolling. These beings would walk and come up to the wall of Kechara Forest R...
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One of the four largest sacred lakes of Tibet, Yamdrok Yumtso is believed to be the physical manifestation of the goddess known as Dorje Geg Kyi Tso...
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(An Open Letter of Appeal to His Holiness the Dalai Lama (April 30, 2018)) ༧རྒྱལ་དབང་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་བཞི་པ་རྗེ་བཙུན་འཇམ་དཔལ་ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་ཡེ་ཤེས་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་མཆོག་གི་དྲུང་དུ།
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(World’s largest Dorje Shugden shrine) கேச்சாரா ஃபோரெஸ்ட் ரீட்டீரீட்டில் இருக்கும் அழகான விஸ்டம் மண்டபத்தில், ஞானம் பெற்ற உலக அமைதி காவலர் டோர்ஜே ஷுக்டேன், தனது பரிவாரங்களான 32 உதவியாளர்களுடன் அமர்ந்திருக்கின்றார்.
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Dear Everyone, Since I was very young I’ve had a huge interest in the paranormal, Tibet, magic, mysteries, bigfoot, lochness, Findhorn, Ufo’s, Nazca lines, spirits, Salem, Easter Island, dowsing, Greek Gods,...
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The following write-up below was submitted to us by a reader of the blog, James Yoshida, who also left it as a comment in the recently-published article “Dalai Lama: Thinking China is an enemy is naive | 达赖尊者:视中国为敌是愚昧的“. We are publishing it here because it contains some interesting info...
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Dear friends around the world, Phayul.com, which is a website that covers Tibetan news and other Tibet-related issues, has just published an article titled “Division based on province, religious...
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Back in 2001, I had no inkling of just how involved in Dharma I would become. As a Masters degree-holder in Engineering, I was working as a research engineer...
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Su Shi was a prominent figure in the Song Dynasty as well as a poet, calligrapher, writer, painter, gastronome, pharmacologist, and a statesman...
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I wanted to share a nice thangka of Chenrezig with everyone. This thangka is important because through it, one can see the holy forms of not only Chenrezig but...
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(Reuters Publishes My Reconciliation Prayers for Asia) ང་རང་ཚོ་ནང་ཕན་ཚུན་མི་མཐུན་པ་དེ་དག་འགྲིགས་འཇགས་བྱུང་བ་ཡིན་ན། ང་ཚོས་འཛམ་གླིང་འདི་ནང་མཐུན་གཤིབ་ཚད་དང་ལྡན་པ་འཁྱེར་ཐུབ། ང་རང་ཚོའི་དུས་འདིར།
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(by Tsem Rinpoche and Stella Cheang) I am part Kalmyk. The Kalmyks are Mongolians who have their own republic in the Russian Federation called Kalmykia. My adoptive parents, along...
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Satya Narayan Goenka was a leading Burmese-Indian lay teacher of Vipassana meditation. He was a student of the late Sayagyi U Ba Khin of Burma, an eminent 20th Century...
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As the country with the largest majority of Buddhists in the world, Cambodia is a nation rich with spirituality. Buddhist temples can be found everywhere and one cannot walk...
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Of the many types of Malaysian ghost, one of the most perplexing is the Orang Minyak, literally translated as ‘Oily Man’. However, the exact nature of the Orang Minyak...
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Malaysian weddings are diverse, unique and colourful affairs, as is to be expected in a country that is a melting pot of cultures and faiths. Generally speaking, wedding customs...
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It is such a joy and pleasure to watch birds, squirrels and other animals eating the food I place out in the garden or on the veranda. For the...
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(Dalai Lama's Sudden Change of Mind About China-Backed Panchen Lama) ཉིན་འགའ་ཤས་སྔོན་ལ། ༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་གིས་མི་མང་པོ་ཧང་སངས་དགོས་པའི་བཀའ་སློབ་བསྩལ་ཡོད།
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几天前,达赖尊者做出了一项令许多人震惊的宣布。达赖尊者于2018年4月25日表示,根据“可靠消息”,他所认证的十一世班禅大师转世人选根敦确吉尼玛(也译为更登确吉尼玛)尚安然在世。
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On April 25, 2018, the Dalai Lama said that the Panchen Lama recognised by China is being educated by a good teacher AND that it is possible for two...
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Dungkar Lobzang Trinle was born in 1927 to an ordinary Tibetan family in the village of Jomo under the jurisdiction of Jomo Dzong in the Nyingtri region of Tibet...
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Following the unexpected death of the Third Dalai Lama Sonam Gyatso in Mongolia in 1588, his patrons there decided to identify his reincarnation among their own people...
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Scholars generally agree that a renowned Indian tantric master by the name of Padmasambhava did visit and teach in Tibet in the late eighth century...
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The Third Trijang, Lobzang Yeshe Tendzin Gyatso was born on March 10, 1901, in Gungtang. As a child he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Second Trijang, Lobzang...
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The Fourth Takpu, Pema Vajra Jampel Tenpai Ngodrub, most commonly known as Takpu Dorje Chang, was born in 1876 in Naksho, Kham...
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Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso was born to a family of Nyingma practitioners in 1617 in the Yarlung Valley of Tibet, descendents of the Imperial line of the Yarlung Dynasty...
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འབྲོམ་སྟོན་རྒྱལ་བའི་འབྱུང་གནས། b.1004 – d.1064 Tradition: Kadam བཀའ་གདམས་པ། Geography: Tolung Dechen County སྟོད་ལུང་བདེ་ཆེན་ཛོང། Historical Period: 11th Century ༡༡ དུས་རབས། Institution: Reting Monastery རྭ་སྒྲེང།; Gyelje རྒྱལ་བྱེད་དགོན། Clan: Drom འབྲོམ། Name Variants: Gyelwa Jungne རྒྱལ་...
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Sanggye Yeshe was born in the Tsang Valley in Tibet in 1525, in a town called Drukgya, the youngest of four sons. He encountered his future master, Wensapa Lobzang...
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Pema Lingpa was born in Chel Baridrang, in the Tang valley in the district of Bumtang. His father was Dondrub Zangpo of Sumtrang and his mother was Pema Dronma...
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The epithet Tsangpa Gyare signifies first that he was native to Tsang Province, and secondly, that he was a repa or ‘cotton-clad one’ belonging to the Gya clan...
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The breadth of Pema Trinle’s learning in both sutra and tantra was legendary. He practiced many teachings from the Sakya tradition, as well as his Nyingma heritage...
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Lobzang Chokyi Gyeltsen was born in a village called Drukgya in Tsang. As a youth he studied with Sanggye Yeshe, then the abbot of Tashilhunpo...
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The 15th Ganden Tripa, Paṇchen Sonam Drakpa was born into the family of Nangpa Ralampa that was based near the Tsetang Monastery in Lhoka in 1478...
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Sonam Chopel was born in 1595 at Gyale in Tibet’s Tolung valley to the west of Lhasa. When he was eight, he was enrolled at the great Geluk monastery...
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When the Twelfth Dalai Lama, Trinle Gyatso died at the young age of twenty in 1875, his face is said to have turned toward the south-east, which was taken...
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Zong Lobzang Tsondru was born in Mangsang, Kham, in 1905. As a child he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Geluk master Zongtrul Tenpa Chopel...
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The Third Changkya, Rolpai Dorje was born in 1717 in the Drakkar territory of Nub Padmo De Monastery, one of four monasteries that Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen established...
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The life story of Machik Labdron has been recounted in several different Tibetan hagiographies, with considerable differences among them. According to these sources, Machik was born in 1055...
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Padampa Sanggye was probably born during the eleventh century in an area identified as the district of Kupadvipa, the province of Carasimha, the land of Bebala...
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Drapa Ngonshe was born in 1012. For five years he worked as a shepherd, and then took ordination at Samye Monastery from Yamshud Gyelwa O...
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Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa was born in the Tsongkha region of Amdo in 1357. Among the numerous miraculous incidents believed to have taken place...
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The Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje was born in 1284. His father, named Chopel, is described as a Nyingma practitioner. While still a young child his parents brought him on...
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ལྕང་སྐྱ ༠༢ ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་ཆོས་ལྡན། b.1642 – d.1714 Incarnations: Changkya ལྕང་སྐྱ། Tradition: Gelug དགེ་ལུགས། Geography: China ཨ་མདོ། Historical Period: 17th and 18th Century ༡༨ དུས་རབས། Institution: Drepung Monastery འབྲས་སྤུངས་།; Tashilhunpo བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ།; Kumbum Jampa Ling སྐུ་འབུམ་བྱམས་...
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འཇམ་དབྱངས་ཆོས་རྗེ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་ལྡན། b.1379 – d.1449 Tradition: Geluk དགེ་ལུགས། Geography: Lhasa ལྷ་ས། Historical Period: 14th Century ༡༤ དུས་རབས། / 15th Century ༡༥ དུས་རབས། Institution: Ganden དགའ་ལྡན་།; Drepung Monastery འབྲས་སྤུངས་།; Sangpu Neutok གསང་ཕུ་ནེའུ་ཐོག། Offices Held: First Throne H...
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Buton Rinchen Drub was born in 1290. He began his studies of reading and writing at age five or six under the tutorship of his mother, and continued to...
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Khedrubje Gelek Pelzang was born in Tsang in 1385. His name was given to him when he took novice ordination at the age of seven from Khenchen Sengge Gyeltsen...
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Gyeltsab Darma Rinchen was born in either 1362 or 1364, in a place called Rinang, in Nyangto, Tsang. At the age of ten he met Nenyingpa Rinchen Gyeltsen...
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