Remember, the money we have will be gone, taken, used, stale in savings or abandoned eventually. Our partners, our lovers, our ‘soulmates’ will leave us eventually or we leave them. How strongly we feel about them or them for us now, is temporary. Then all the time, efforts, sacrifices we put towards this will...
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This section features a selection of snippets from H.E. Tsem Rinpoche’s Dharma teachings, as well as Rinpoche’s thoughts and views on various issues. For each snippet, a link to the original full video is provided should you want to learn more. Do return to this page often as we will bring you more snippets of teachings and sharings from Rinpoche. For more interesting information: The Promise – Tsem Rinpoche’s inspiring biography now in ebook format! 詹杜固仁波切的精彩传记《承诺》电子版面世 Tsem Rinpoche Images (Free Download) Free Downloads: Texts, P...
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A Buddha statue or image symbolises the enlightened body of a Buddha. The practice of creating Buddha images started over 2,500 years ago as it was first started by the Buddha himself. In general, Buddhists believe that making Buddha images generates great merit because it brings benefits to so many sentient beings. The sight of Buddha...
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Dear friends around the world, I was extremely happy to read this article. I hope other states and countries will follow this example and have something similar in the very near future. It breaks my heart to see animals that are abandoned, abused, hungry and in pain. I myself have experienced hunger when I...
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Black Tara (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Black Tara and Dorje Shugden Deity: Black Tara (English) Alternative name: Tro Nyer Chen Ma (Tibetan) Tara is known as Jetsun Drolma in Tibetan and she is a very important figure in Tibetan Buddhism. She is known as the ‘saviouress’ and is considered the embodiment of the...
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Mahasiddha Tilopa (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Mahasiddha Tilopa and Dorje Shugden Figure: Mahasiddha Tilopa (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Drubchen Tilopa (Tibetan) The Mahasiddha Tilopa was one of the earlier lineage masters of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. He was Indian and was ordained as a monk at the temple of Somapuri in Bengal....
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Guhya Manjushri (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Guhya Manjushri and Dorje Shugden Deity: Guhya Manjushri (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Jampel Sang Den (Tibetan) Manjushri is the patron Buddha of Wisdom. The text that he holds is symbolic of his practice granting wisdom, insight and merit. Both the main figure and the smaller figure above is...
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Five Visions of Lama Tsongkhapa (Main figures) (Top to bottom): Five Visions of Lama Tsongkhapa and Dorje Shugden Figures: Five Visions of Lama Tsongkhapa Alternative name: Je Zig Pa Nga (Tibetan) It was said that after Lama Tsongkhapa entered clear light, Khedrub Je would often make requests to him for guidance and inspiration. On...
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Sukkhasiddhi (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Sukkhasiddhi and Dorje Shugden Deity: Sukkhasiddhi Vajra Yogini (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Kha Drod Kar Mo (Tibetan); Sita Kechari (Sanskrit) The Vajra Yogini Tantras originally arose from within the Chakrasamvara Tantras and across time as well as great lineage masters, there have arisen various Vajra Yogini lineages like the...
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Mahasiddha Kukkuripa (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Vajra Yogini, Kukkuripa and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Naro Kechari Vajra Yogini (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Dorje Neljorma (Tibetan) This form of Vajra Yogini arose from a pure vision beheld by the Indian Mahasiddha Naropa, hence her name Naro Kechari (or Naropa’s Dakini). This form of Vajra Yogini and...
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Ra Lotsawa Dorje Drakpa (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Yamantaka, Ra Lotsawa Dorje Drakpa and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Yamantaka (Sankrit) Alternative names: Vajrabhairava (Sanskrit); Shinje She (Tibetan); Dorje Jigje (Tibetan) Yamantaka or Vajrabhairava is the manifestation of Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Stainless Wisdom. From amongst the many lineages of practices to enter Tibet, the...
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White Manjushri (Main figure) (Top to bottom): White Manjushri and Dorje Shugden Deity: White Manjushri Alternative names: Jampel Karpo (Tibetan); Sita Manjushri (Sanskrit); Siddhaikavira (Sanskrit); White Arapachana Manjushri (English) Manjushri is the patron Buddha of Wisdom. In his right hand, he holds a flaming wisdom sword which cuts away the roots of ignorance from...
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H.H. the 1st Karmapa Dusum Khyenpa (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Gampopa Sonam Rinchen, 1st Karmapa Dusum Khyenpa, Mahakala Bernagchen and Dorje Shugden. Figure: Gampopa Sonam Rinchen (Tibetan) Alternative name: Dakpo Lharje (Tibetan) The name ‘Gampopa’ (1079–1153) literally means ‘the man from Gampo’ and he was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher from the Kagyu tradition....
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Pal Lhamo (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Pal Lhamo and Dorje Shugden Deity: Pal Lhamo (Tibetan) Alternative name: Sri Lakshmi (Sanskrit) Pal Lhamo is otherwise known as Sri Lakshmi. She is the peaceful emanation of Palden Lhamo Dudsolma, one of the principal female protectors of Tibetan Buddhism. Pal Lhamo is depicted with a third...
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35 Confessional Buddhas (Main figures) (Top to bottom): 35 Confessional Buddhas and Dorje Shugden Deities: 35 Confessional Buddhas Alternative name: Sheg Lha So Nga (Tibetan) The 35 Confessional Buddhas were first mentioned within ‘The Sutra of the Three Heaps’ which is known in Sanskrit as the Triskhandhadharmasutra, or briefly the Triskandha Sutra. This treatise...
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Buddha Shakyamuni (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Shakyamuni, the Sixteen Arhats and Dorje Shugden. Figure: Buddha Shakyamuni Alternative Name: Sangye Shakya Tubpa (Tibetan) Shakyamuni is the historical Buddha who founded Buddhism in ancient India about 2,500 years ago. After an exhaustive search, he finally attained perfect and complete enlightenment under the Bodhi tree...
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H.H. the 5th Dalai Lama (Main figure) (Top to bottom): H.H. the 4th Panchen Lama, H.H. the 5th Dalai Lama, Palden Lhamo and Dorje Shugden. Figure: His Holiness the 4th Panchen Lama Lobsang Chokyi Gyeltsen The Panchen Lama line of incarnations are believed to be emanations of Amitabha, the Buddha of Boundless Light. Amitabha...
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Two-Armed Heruka (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Two-Armed Heruka and Dorje Shugden Deity: Heruka Chakrasamvara (Sanskrit) Alternative name: He Ru Ka Pa Chig (Tibetan) Heruka is the principal deity of the Chakrasamvara Tantras. He is a meditational Buddha of the Highest Yoga Tantra classification, which means that his practice has the potential to bring...
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Standing Green Tara (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Standing Green Tara and Dorje Shugden Deity: Arya Tara (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Green Tara (English); Shyama Tara (Sanskrit); Drolma (Tibetan); Droljang (Tibetan) Tara is known as Jetsun Drolma in Tibetan and she is a very important figure in Tibetan Buddhism. She is known as the ‘saviouress’...
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Four-Armed Chenrezig (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Four-Armed Chenrezig and Dorje Shugden Deity: Four-Armed Chenrezig (English) Alternative name: Caturbhuja Avalokiteshvara (Sanskrit) Chenrezig’s sacred name literally means the “All-Seeing Lord”. He is regarded as the embodiment of compassion and his divine presence is invoked through his well-known six syllable mantra, OM MANI PADME HUM. His...
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