Preliminary Practice
(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David) For a practitioner who truly is interested to practice the Dharma, one must begin with the accomplishment of the preliminary practices, which is...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David) For a practitioner who truly is interested to practice the Dharma, one must begin with the accomplishment of the preliminary practices, which is...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey (1921 – 1995) was a great Buddhist master who founded Dhargyey Buddhist Centre in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1984. During his lifetime, Geshe...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, I wanted to share some of my interactions with one of the greatest scholars, teachers, abbot emeritus, and masters of the Gelugpa tradition of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, I had a friend that lived down the street from where I lived in Howell, New Jersey, USA, and she had...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2011 MES AYNAK, Afghanistan — It was another day on the rocky hillside, as archaeologists and laborers dug out statues of Buddha and...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche, Pastor Niral and Pastor Shin) George Roerich, born Yuri Nikolayevich Roerich in 1902, is known as one of the world’s greatest Tibetologists and linguists. Yuri is...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, Due to her enlightened compassion, Tara manifests in innumerable forms to benefit sentient beings. These manifestations reflect the many needs of...
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H.E. Tsem Rinpoche muncul sebagai tetamu utama dalam program “Hari Tersuci Agama Buddha” di TV2 Nasional pada Hari Wesak 2013. Rinpoche diundang oleh TV2 untuk mendapatkan pendapat beliau berkenaan...
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H.E. Tsem Rinpoche appeared as the main guest speaker on the TV program “Buddhism’s Holiest Day” on Malaysia’s National TV2, on Wesak Day 2013. Rinpoche was approached by TV2...
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在2013年卫塞节当天,尊贵的詹杜固仁波切在TV2电视节目《佛教圣日》中担任主要的受访嘉宾。TV2邀请仁波切发表卫塞节感言,作为卫塞节的特备节目...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Adeline) Introduction The Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (5th – 6th century, Simple Chinese: 菩提达摩 or 菩提達磨) was a student of Prajnatara of India, the 27th patriarch in a transmission of Buddhist teachings. As such he is considered to be the 28th patriarch in an uninterru...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Adeline) In the mid-19th century, in Fujian, Qing China, a woman from the Xiao family gave birth to a bag of flesh. From this flesh was born the baby Master Xuyun (Simplified Chinese: 虚云). Having given birth to a bag of flesh, his mother was frightened and overwhelmed wi...
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(译文请往下阅读) “It is very important to practice the offering of butterlamps. Try to complete a minimum of 100,000. It is very good for your realizations on the sutra path. It is excellent for results on the tantric path.” ~ Tsem Rinpoche His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche has advised on many occasio...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I love it when people try new and creative ways to bring Buddhism to a new crowd. The world today is full of distractions caused by...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, Today, I was surprised with a very precious and beautiful gift. I’ve had other people personally paint up Vajrayogini images, and...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David) The word ‘Zen’ is derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word ‘Chan’. This in turn is derived from the Indian Sanskrit word ‘Dhyana’, which means ‘mental...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Buddhism is a religion that stresses compassion towards everyone and this is clearly evident with the growth of the world-wide trend of Buddhist pastors, ministers and...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, I have always been very attracted to Buddhism since young, although my parents forbade me to engage in it fully. I...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) རང་ཉིད་ལུས་ཕུང་དང་མ་བྲལ་བའི་སྔ་རོལ་ན། འགྲོ་བ་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་དོན་དུ་བྱམས་སྙིང་རྗེ་དང་དྲིན་དྲན་བརྩེ་བ། བཟོད་སྲན་ལྟ་བུའི་ཆོས་དང་མཐུན་པའི་རྒྱུ་བསག་པར་འགྱུར་ཅིག། ལས་བཟང་པོ་འདི་སྐྱེ་བ་ཕྱི་མར་ངས་མཉམ་དུ་ཁྱེར་ནས་འགྲོ་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་ཡོད། སྐྱེ་བ་ཕྱི་མ་ལ་ཡག་པོ་ཡོང་རྒྱུའི་ཆེད་དུ་ལས་ངན་ཐམས་ཅད་འཇོམས་པར་འགྱུར།
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) STOP DANCING WITH THE CORPSE When my time has come to leave this world, may I have spent my life cultivating my kindness, compassion, love and tolerance and have done works to have benefited others. These deeds can be taken with me in the form of good karma within my min...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, It is with great sadness that I have learned of the passing of such a learned master and close friend of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) This short but well rounded article is a great read for everyone, whether you are new or have been exposed to Buddhism for a long time....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Jean Ai) As Buddhists, we are taught that making offerings generates tremendous merits to be dedicated towards our spiritual progress. Not only are we...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David) According to The Clear Mirror of the Royal Genealogies (Gyalrab Salwai Melong) attributed to Sakyapa Sonam Gyaltsen (1312-1375 CE), the great Tibetan Emperor...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The images of the Buddhas in ‘Faces of Enlightenment’ and their iconographies changed my whole outlook on Buddhism. The images and iconographies of enlightened beings represent...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Beatrix) What is a Chaplain? A chaplain is either a priest, minister, pastor, imam, rabbi or a lay delegate of a religious tradition, who...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I am fortunate to be living in Malaysia and proud to say that it is my home. Malaysia allows me to be who I am, pursue my...
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(Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, I recently came across this article and thought it was interesting, so I wanted to share it with all of you. The...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I am writing a series of articles on various holy sites such as Mount Wutai in China, the Temple of the Tooth in the city of...
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(詹杜固仁波切撰写) 对全球成千上万的格鲁派和多杰雄登修持者而言, “札贡仁波切”是一个大家耳熟能详的名字。 几十年前,当藏人行政中央刚开始实施多杰雄登禁令时,尊贵的札贡仁波切就是第一批勇于公开对抗西藏领导的上师之一。
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Halloween is my favourite holiday and it has always been. The last time I celebrated Halloween was three years ago in Salem, 33 years since I...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) Oct 28, 2012 The best anyone can do if not enlightenment for now, is to gain mastery over taking rebirth coupled with developing Three Principle Paths. Where you want to take rebirth can be determined by yourself if you practice the sacred Vajra Yogini Tantra thoroughly....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I am happy to see how, more and more, Buddhism is being applied and used in so many diverse platforms and industries these days. Schools are...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, I always encourage my blog followers to visit as many holy places as possible. It is a great blessing to go...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, The Kechara Pastors are asked many questions by sincere spiritual seekers from all over the world. These questions range from those...
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(中文分享请往下看) On July 21, 2016, 16 of us came together to engage in a retreat on the sacred practice of Manjushri. It was a four-day retreat in between work and assignments. By the end of the retreat we had each recited 100,000 mantras. Collectively we accumulated 1.6 million mantras altogether. During...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Adeline) Dear friends, It is with great humility that I have been given the opportunity to present to you this research on vows on...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David) The 11th Century Chinese monk Daoji is commonly known by the name Ji Gong. He was a Chan Buddhist monk of the Southern...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) As many of you may know, Kechara Forest Retreat regularly organizes Inner Peace Retreats. I came across the article ‘Why Silence is So Good for Your...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In the Heruka and Vajrayogini tantras, it is mentioned that there are 24 holy places that are empowered with the energy of Heruka and Vajrayogini. Within...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, I like this article by Mr. Craig Lewis and sharing it for educational purposes. I like it when world leaders show...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David) Dear friends around the world, I first heard of Lama Ole Nydahl while browsing through a random Buddhist article online many years ago....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, I came across this interesting article on my Facebook news feed. I read it and realised that it is something I...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Jean Ai) Few practitioners have reached the heights of fame as Dulzin Drakpa Gyaltsen, whose name is known to Gelug practitioners everywhere as the...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David) The practice of the 35 Confessional Buddhas is one of the most long lasting purification practices that has been propagated since the time...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, Before Tibetan Buddhism became very big in the West, there were many great explorers, scholars and spiritualists who connected to Tibet. They were fascinated...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and P. Prashant) Dear readers, I am thrilled to have been given this opportunity to write about Emperor Ashoka the Great. During his early reign, he...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Recently an online friend contacted me with some questions about the process of taking someone as a teacher and also about becoming a monk. They said...
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Homage to the Divine Lady Whom out of compassion Emanates in myriads of forms In this degenerate age to subdue our various minds Using the energy of desire, She...
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A special thanks to His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche and the Kechara Pastors for sharing this wonderful list of books with all of us who are interested in...
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(詹杜固仁波切与黎国圆讲法师) 至尊第十一世班禅额尔德尼·确吉坚赞不久前在其位于中国西藏自治区西南部日喀则扎什伦布寺附近的新夏宫授予时轮金刚灌顶。 这是中国西藏地区50年来首次公开举办大规模时轮金刚灌顶...
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One of the most popular deities and practices in the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon is that of the female Buddha Tara. There are varying legends about her origins and how...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Art has played a huge role in our lives and the lives of those who lived long in the past. Archaeologists have uncovered historical evidence that...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, As you know I love beautiful mountains and dwellings in the mountains. I’ve found some beautiful pictures of mountains, waters and desserts...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, One of the features of the various world religions is that they explain what happens to us after we pass away...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) All of us gets irked when someone says or does something that we do not like… but have we ever thought deeper as to why it...
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