Why I Left Everything to Become A Buddhist Monk
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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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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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...
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1735年,清朝一代大帝雍正驾崩。这位自号“圆明居士”的皇帝不依传统,执拗得回到了自己登基称帝之前的居所——后世称为雍和宫的府邸之中。这个已经成为藏传佛教格鲁派寺院的地方
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Since the start of time, humans have used herbs for a variety of different applications, including the flavouring of food in cooking, in healing and medicinal...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David Lai) The supreme goddess Vajrayogini is highly revered as the heart practice of many high lamas and mahasiddhas of India, Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia...
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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...
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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...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Shin Tan) Dr. Edward Conze is known as the foremost Western scholar of Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) literature, and the best way to introduce...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David Lai) Ven. Dr. Walpola Rahula Maha Thera is widely acclaimed to have been one of the greatest luminaries amongst Sri Lankan scholars of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche And Pastor David Lai) According to Buddhism, high-level meditators and enlightened beings attain the realisation of Emptiness (the highest wisdom) and Bodhicitta (the ultimate compassionate wish...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Yamantaka (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Yamantaka, Kalarupa and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Yamantaka (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Vajrabhairava (Sanskrit); Shinje She (Tibetan); Dorje Jigje (Tibetan) Yamantaka or Vajrabhairava is the...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Shin) China’s great history spans over five thousand years, and with 446 rulers and 67 dynasties, not many emperors stand out. However, there are...
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(Auspicious Mongolian Omen) हामीसँग तपाईंको लागि अर्को रोचक छोटो पोष्ट छ। तपाईंहरूलाई थाहा नै छ हामीसँग शहरमा १३ ओटा विभाग भएको केचरा छ।
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(Are You Secular or Are You Spiritual?) कहिलेकाहीँ म अनलाइनमा पढ्दछु कि मानिसहरूले घेशे केल्साङ ग्याचेको बारेमा र अन्य उत्कृष्ट प्राणीहरूको आलोचना गर्दछन् र अर्को तिर कुरा गर्ने हो भने तिनीहरू सबै अध्यात्मिक हुन...
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(The Farm of Your Mind) माननीय श्री २५ छेम रिन्पोछे हाम्रो अध्यात्मका सल्लाहकार र दोर्जे शुग्देन हाम्रो धर्मको रक्षक भइदिनुभएकोमा केचरा धेरै भाग्यमानी छ। यति महान् र श्रेष्ठ गुरूसँग...
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(10 Incredible House Blessings by Kechara Pastors) केचाराका पुरोहितहरूले अन्यलाई मद्दत गर्न तथा लाभ प्रदान गर्न अथक रूपले कार्य गर्नुहुन्छ र 24 सै घण्टा सम्पर्कमा रहनुहुन्छ।
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Adeline) A Brief Introduction to China The People’s Republic of China has a long and varied history with its beginnings in an ancient...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Kukai, also known posthumously as Kobo Daishi, was an influential and beloved figure in Japan. He played an instrumental role in establishing and spreading the Shingon...
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A tale of Vairochana (aka Berotsana བཻ་རོ་ཙ་ན་, bai ro tsa na) and Pang Mipham Gönpo (spang mi pham mgon po) After returning to Tibet, the learned pandit Vairochana was eventually sent into exile to East Tibet; there he taught Yudra Nyingpo, Sangtön Yeshe Lama and the old man Mipham Gönpo before the...
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Labrang Monastery in Xiahe County, northwest China’s Gansu Province, is an annual destination for tourists, Buddhists and pilgrims from around the world. They gather to witness the unveiling of...
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On 13 September 2017, a group of 38 Kecharians from all over the world – Malaysia, Canada and Hong Kong – gathered at Beijing Airport, prepared to embark on...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Stella Cheang) The veneration of relics is an ancient custom that plays an important role in major world religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Shamanism....
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Nageshvaraja (By Tsem Rinpoche) Nageshvaraja is also sometimes called Nagaraja. His name literally means ‘Tathagatha King of the Nagas’, known as ‘Luwang Gyalpo’ in Tibetan. He is also one...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David) The great Lopon Sonam Tsemo (1142-1182 CE) was the 2nd of the five founding fathers of the Sakya tradition and the 9th in...
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Five ways to love more By Tsem Rinpoche 1. Let go of pain from the past Let go of the people who hurt your body, because you...
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Tsarchen Losal Gyatso (1502 – 1566 CE) was a famous master and the founder of the Tsarpa lineage of the Sakya tradition centred at Dar Drangmoche Monastery in the...
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(译文请往下阅读) I was 18 years old when this was taken back in 1983 in Los Angeles, California. Here I am in this photo with my most precious root guru, His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche. He has profoundly changed my life for the better forever. Not a day goes by I don’t think about him, love him, m...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David) Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz was an American explorer, anthropologist, writer, and, most famously, a pioneer in the field of Tibetan Buddhist studies. His writings...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The ferocious Manjushri Nagarakshasa or Jampel Nagarakshasa is one of the most fearsome looking Buddha-yidams within the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon. As his name implies, he is...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Niral) Professor Herbert Guenther, also known as Professor Herbert Vighnantaka Gunther, was a brilliant translator, philosopher, and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. His impact on...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Lochen Chönyi Zangmo, better known as Jetsun Lochen Rinpoche (1865 – 1951), was an attained female practitioner of the Nyingma and Kagyu traditions of Tibetan Buddhism....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Karen Chong) 五台山位于中国山西省,因五峰耸立,上平坦如台而闻名。人们普遍相信这是智慧佛文殊菩萨在人间的道场,相传每一座山峰皆住着文殊菩萨的其中一个化身。
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) 当前往受到加持的圣地朝圣,游客们会因环境的正能量而感到平静、快乐、治愈和安宁。这还可以在游客或朝圣者的心中留下印记或开启心中某个正面的印记,成为修行路上激励他们的动力。
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The Chinese Buddhist scholar Professor Garma C. C. Chang (1920-1988) was one of the few pioneering scholars who introduced Buddhism to the West primarily through the publication of books...
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Dear friends around the world, As society keeps trending more and more towards consumerism and materialism, all of us need some sort of spiritual cleansing from these ‘toxins’. Therefore...
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It is said that on Mount Kailash, Buddha Shakyamuni miraculously manifested as Buddha Heruka Cakrasamvara in sacred union with Vajrayogini along with the accompanying 62 deities in his entourage....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Han Nee) “To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, Tukdam is a meditative state that great practitioners of Buddhism enter into when they pass away from this life in order...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, If you enjoy travelling, these are some of the places I recommend you to visit. It is extremely important to take time out from...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Datuk May) Being of Chinese descent, the very thought of exhuming an ancestral grave causes great concern and superstitious fear of impending misfortune and inauspiciousness....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) A curious, yet ethereal photograph of Lord Buddha has been in circulation for quite some time. Supposedly a photograph taken of Siddhartha Gautama, also known as...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Adeline) Introduction Kucha, or Kuchar, was one of the earliest and most prominent centres in the Tarim Basin along the northern branch of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Significance to Buddhist Sarnath is considered a sacred place to the Buddhists for being the place where Gautama Buddha first taught seven weeks after achieving enlightenment...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Niral) We all go through some form of negativity throughout our lives, and that’s just how life in our world is. During such periods...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, It is wonderful to know that China recently completed the construction of Nanhai Buddhist College, their version of Nalanda University in...
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