People have been asking me, "Why did you leave everything behind in California, your life behind, to become a Buddhist monk?" And for me, the answer is fairly simple...

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Wat Phra Dhammakaya, the world’s largest Buddhist temple, is located in the district of Klong Luang, Pathum Thani Province, just north of Bangkok, Thailand. The grand complex was founded by the maechi Chandra Khonnokyoong and a monk, Luang Por Dhammajayo...

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How Buddhism spread throughout the Mongol Empire provides an important insight into the cultural and political situation at the time, and illustrates how many high lamas worked skilfully to benefit the Mongols...

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(Bhagawan Dorje Shugden Chapels in Kathmandu, Nepal!) नेपाल मुलुक मलाई अति नै मनपर्ने ठाउँ हो । विगतमा मैले धेरै समय यस स्थानमा व्यतित गरिसकें र मलाई यहाँका पवित्र स्थानहरूका बारेमा राम्रो जानकारी छ ।

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Dear friends around the world, I recently came across reports of the discovery of an underwater Roman settlement off the coast of Tunisia. For almost a decade, archaeologists have been searching for the Roman city of Neapolis, which was believed to have been sunk by a tsunami 1,700 years ago. The ruins of the...

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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, When I was growing up in America, I had the good fortune to study under two great masters of our time. My first teacher was the great Sera Mey Abbot Emeritus His Eminence Kensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tharchin, who lived 10 minutes away from me in Rashi...

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This special message from Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje was played during the 35th Kagyu Monlam festivities held in Bodhgaya, India. While this is not unusual, the meaning behind his message was. The Karmapa is the highest incarnate lama and the head of the Karma Kagyu sub-sect of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism; and...

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（译文请往下阅读） Dear friends around the world, The advice below was recently given by the Protector Dorje Shugden during the Lunar New Year of 2018. This year, the Tibetan New Year (Losar) and the Chinese New Year fell on the same day, February 16. On that same day, the Protector Dorje Shugden kindly gave the following advice via His Eminence the 7th Panglung Kuten in trance. This is not the first time Dorje Shugden has given advice. Over the years, I have consulted him numerous times and every single time, Dorje Shugden answers patiently, with compa...

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For Chinese New Year 2018, I was given the opportunity to share on the essence of prosperity and spirituality with The Star, a major Malaysian national newspaper. Many people believe that wealth and spirituality are at odds...

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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Professor Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (18 October 1870 – 22 July 1966) was a prolific Japanese writer known for his translations of important Zen (Chan) and Shin (Jodo Shinshu or ‘Pure Land’) Buddhist texts. His work was instrumental in igniting widespread interest in Buddhism in the West, and was a significant catalyst...

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Dear friends around the world, I have always been a big fan of spiritual, metaphysical, mystical, historical and paranormal related subjects. I even have a special section on this blog dedicated to paranormal articles. What interests me is discovering how ancient knowledge has made an impact on the modern era. For instance, there are...

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Buddha Shakyamuni (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Shakyamuni, Lama Tsongkhapa and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Buddha Shakyamuni (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Sangye Shakya Tupa (Tibetan) Buddha Shakyamuni is the current and historical Buddha who was born a prince in the region of Lumbini (in what is now Nepal). He left the palace, became a wandering...

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Chandrakirti (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Green Tara, Chandrakirti and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Chandrakirti (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Dawa Drakpa (Tibetan) Chandrakirti was born into a Brahmin family living in Samana, South India. At birth, he was presented to a soothsayer who prophesied that he would become a great Buddhist master when he grew up....

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Ten-Armed Kali (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Kali and Dorje Shugden Deity: Kali (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Lhamo Tromo (Tibetan) Kali is a Hindu goddess whose name means ‘she who is black’ or ‘she who is death’. However, she is also known by other epithets and has many forms. For Hindus, she embodies the very...

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Kurukulle (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Kurukulle and Dorje Shugden Deity: Kurukulle (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Rigchema (Tibetan) The sublime Kurukulle is a female deity who is red in colour. Her practice is one that invokes upon the activity of control and magnetisation. She is in dancing posture and has four arms holding a bow,...

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Six-Armed Mahakala (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Six-Armed Mahakala and Dorje Shugden Deity: Six-Armed Mahakala (English) Alternative names: Shadbhuja Mahakala (Sanskrit); Gonpo Chagdrugpa (Tibetan) Six-Armed Mahakala is an emanation of Avalokiteshvara and propitiated as the protector of the Highest Scope of the Lamrim or the Graduated Stages on the Path to Enlightenment. He is...

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Shantideva (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Shantideva and Dorje Shugden Deity: Shantideva (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Shiwa Lha (Tibetan) Shantideva was a great scholar, monk and saint from Nalanda Monastery in ancient India who was the head of over 500 pandits. Having mastered the teachings, he practised them internally, without any outward display of high...

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Dorje Shugden (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Dorje Shugden Deity: Dorje Shugden (Tibetan) Alternative name: Vajra Rudra (Sanskrit) Dorje Shugden is an emanation of the Buddha of Wisdom, Manjushri. He took the form of a Dharma Protector in order to safeguard the Buddha’s teachings, especially the important teachings on the Middle Way View. Reminiscent...

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Vishnu (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Brahma, Vishnu, Lakshmi and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Vishnu (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Khyabjuk (Tibetan) Vishnu is part of a Hindu trinity known as the ‘Trimurti’, together with Brahma and Shiva. They are said to govern the universal processes of Creation, Maintenance and Destruction respectively. Vishnu is known as the...

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Four-Faced Mahakala (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Four-Faced Mahakala with consorts and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Four-Faced Mahakala (English) Alternative names: Chaturmukha Mahakala (Sanskrit); Gonpo Shel Shi (Tibetan) Four-Faced Mahakala is a Dharma Protector associated explicitly with the Heruka Tantras and is propitiated by Heruka practitioners for spiritual protection and for the granting of material...

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