The Most Illustrious Panchen Sonam Drakpa
Within the lineage of Dorje Shugden’s incarnations, none is more illustrious than Panchen Sonam Drakpa. In that lifetime, he became the 15th Gaden Throne Holder and the Abbot of...
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Within the lineage of Dorje Shugden’s incarnations, none is more illustrious than Panchen Sonam Drakpa. In that lifetime, he became the 15th Gaden Throne Holder and the Abbot of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, In 1983 His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche bestowed the initiation of Dorje Shugden to Geshe Tsultrim Gyeltsen’s students. The initiation, or sogtae in Tibetan,...
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Description (Top to bottom): Saraswati and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Saraswati (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Yangchenma / Yangchen Drolma (Tibetan); Goddess of Song and Music (English) Saraswati is a well-known deity...
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Few masters of the 20th century can compare to His Holiness Kyabje Zong Dorje Chang who was truly a practitioner of the highest calibre. An incumbent of Gaden Shartse...
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For over 350 years, Buddhist masters from the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism (Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug) have relied on the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden to clear obstacles...
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Out of their immense kindness and compassion for sentient beings, the enlightened beings or Buddhas manifest various forms. These varying forms help sentient beings in different ways. Though all...
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至尊嘉杰宋仁波切是一位精通各大佛教经典的杰出大师,也是一位大辩师、技艺超群的画师。为了饶益众生,他对法会仪式等事无有不知。除此,这位大师更因禅修而获大成就及神通。
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Europe Tibetan Public Talk is a group of Tibetans who live in Europe and they are from all backgrounds and all parts of Tibet. Being that they have lived...
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H.H. the 30th Sakya Trizin Sonam Rinchen (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Vajrayogini, Buddha Shakyamuni, His Holiness the 30th Sakya Trizin Sonam Rinchen, Hevajra, Gonpo Tramsuk (Brahmarupa), Mahakala of...
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When we think of Tibetan Buddhism, we imagine ancient temples on the bleak slopes of the Himalayas, a refuge from the sufferings of the world, where the low, melodious...
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Five Forms of Manjushri (Main figures) (Top to bottom): Orange Manjushri, Four-Armed Manjushri, Manjushri Lion’s Roar, White Manjushri, Black Manjushri and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Manjushri Lion’s Roar (English) Alternative...
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Saraswati (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Saraswati and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Saraswati (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Yangchenma / Yangchen Drolma (Tibetan); Goddess of Song and Music (English) Saraswati is a...
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Vajrayogini (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Vajrayogini, Mahasiddha Naropa and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Vajrayogini (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Naro Kechari (Sanskrit); Dorje Neljorma (Tibetan) Vajrayogini is a female tantric Buddha...
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Manjushri (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Manjushri Arapachana and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Manjushri Arapachana (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Jamyang Arapatsana (Tibetan) Manjushri is the patron Buddha of Wisdom. In his...
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Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Brahmarupa Mahakala, Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen was the heir to the Zimkhang...
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Four-Armed Ganapati (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Four-Armed White Ganapati and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Four-Armed White Ganapati (English) Alternative name: Chaturbhuja Sita Ganapati (Sanskrit); Tsodag Karpo Chagzhipa (Tibetan) In...
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Orange Manjushri (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Saraswati, Orange Manjushri and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Orange Manjushri Alternative names: Jampel Arapatsana (Tibetan); Arapachana Manjushri (Sanskrit) Manjushri is the patron Buddha...
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Saraswati (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Manjushri, Saraswati, and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Saraswati (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Yangchenma / Yangchen Drolma (Tibetan); Goddess Tara of Song and Music (English) Saraswati...
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Ucchusma (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Ucchusma and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Ucchusma (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Tromo Metsek (Tibetan), Krodhini Bhurkumkuta (Sanskrit) The practice of the black dakini Ucchusma arose...
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Guhyasamaja (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Shakyamuni, Lama Tsongkhapa, Heruka Chakrasamvara, Guhyasamaja, Yamantaka, Four-Faced Mahakala, Six-Armed Mahakala, Kalarupa and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Guhyasamaja (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Sangwa Dupa...
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Heruka Vajrasattva (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Heruka Vajrasattva and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Heruka Vajrasattva (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Vajra Hero Father and Mother (English); Dorje Sempa Yab-Yum (Tibetan) Vajrasattva...
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Ucchusma (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Akshobhya, Ucchusma and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Ucchusma (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Tromo Metsek (Tibetan); Krodhini Bhurkumkuta (Sanskrit) The practice of the black dakini...
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Healing Guru Rinpoche (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Healing Guru Rinpoche and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Healing Guru Rinpoche (English) Alternative names: Guru Padmasambhava Bhaisajyaguru (Sanskrit); Ogyen Menlha (Tibetan) Guru...
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Dukkar Se Sum (Main Figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Shakyamuni, Green Tara, Sengdongma, Dukkar, Prajnaparamita, Kalarupa and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Dukkar (Tibetan) Alternative names: Sitatapatra (Sanskrit); White Parasol (English)...
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Maitreya (Main Figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Shakyamuni, Buddha Kashyapa, Maitreya, White Mahakala and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Maitreya (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Jampa (Tibetan); Ajita (Sanskrit) Maitreya’s name literally means...
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Wrathful Guru Rinpoche (Main Figure) (Top to bottom): Four-Armed Chenrezig, Wrathful Guru Rinpoche, Medicine Guru Rinpoche, Ekajati and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Wrathful Guru Rinpoche Alternative names: Guru Padmasambhava (Sanskrit);...
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Vajradharma (Main Figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Shakyamuni, Vajradharma, Vajrayogini, Hero Vajradharma and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Vajradharma (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Dorje Cho (Tibetan) Within the extremely potent Vajrayogini Tantras...
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Thousand-Armed Chenrezig (Main Figure) (Top to bottom): Manjushri, Vajrapani, Thousand-Armed Chenrezig, Green Tara and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Thousand-Armed Chenrezig (Tibetan) Alternative names: Avalokiteshvara (Sanskrit); Arya Sahasrabhuja Ekadasamukha (Sanskrit); All-Seeing...
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Saraswati (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Manjushri, Saraswati, Palden Lhamo and Dorje Shugden Deity: Saraswati (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Yangchenma / Yangchen Drolma (Tibetan); Goddess Tara of Song and Music...
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Sengdongma (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Shakyamuni, Manjushri, Vajrayogini, Sengdongma, Dorje Shugden and Kache Marpo. Deity: Sengdongma Alternative names: Simhamukha (Sanskrit); Lion-Faced Dakini (English) The great ferocious dakini...
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Dukkar (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Shakyamuni, Dukkar, Dorje Shugden and the Three Mahakala Lords. Deity: Dukkar (Tibetan) Alternative names: Sitatapatra (Sanskrit); White Parasol (English) The awe-inspiring Dukkar...
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Vajravarahi (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Jigten Sumgon, Chenga Chokyi Gyalpo, Lama Tsongkhapa, Vajravarahi, Achi Chokyi Drolma and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Vajravarahi (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Dorje Phagmo (Tibetan); Adamantine...
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Ucheyma (Severed Headed Vajrayogini) (Main figure) (Top to bottom): H.H. the 7th Panchen Lama, Ucheyma (Severed Headed Vajrayogini), Vajra Varnani (green assistant), Vajra Vairocani (yellow assistant), Dorje Shugden and...
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Ucheyma (Severed Headed Vajrayogini) (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Maitri Kacho (Flying Vajrayogini), Maitri Kacho (One-Leg Up Vajrayogini), Naro Kacho, Sukhasiddhi, Ucheyma (Severed Headed Vajrayogini), Vajra Varnani (green assistant),...
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Vajrayogini (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Naropa, Vajradharma, Hero Vajradharma, Naro Kacho, Maitri Kacho (Flying Vajrayogini), Dorje Shugden and Vajravarahi. Vajrayogini is a female tantric Buddha and she has...
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Manjushri (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Four-Armed Chenrezig, Manjushri, Vajrapani and Dorje Shugden. This thangka depicts the “Three Protectors”, known in Tibetan as the Rigsum Gonpo. This enlightened trinity...
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Standing Yeshe Tsogyal (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Guru Padmasambhava, Standing Yeshe Tsogyal, Wangze, Za Rahula and Dorje Shugden. Yeshe Tsogyal was born in 777 CE as a princess...
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Loma Gyonma (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Medicine Buddha, White Tara, Loma Gyonma, Trakpo Sumtril, Dorje Shugden and Vairocana Shugden (Shize). The Forest Goddess is an example of an...
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Palden Lhamo (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Guru Rinpoche, Lama Tsongkhapa, Palden Lhamo, Nechung and Dorje Shugden. The fearsome Palden Lhamo or Shri Devi in Sanskrit, is widely believed...
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White Tara (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Ushnishavijaya (Namgyalma), Amitayus, White Tara, Dorje Shugden Tara is known as Jetsun Drolma in Tibetan and she is a very important figure...
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Amitayus (Main figure) (Top to bottom): White Tara, Ushnishavijaya (Namgyalma), Amitayus, Dorje Shugden and Vairochana Shugden (Shize). According to the scriptures, Amitabha and Amitayus are essentially the same enlightened...
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Nagarjuna (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Manjushri, Nagarjuna and Dorje Shugden. The Buddhist master Nagarjuna was born to a Brahmin family in the land of Beda, South India. When...
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Avalokiteshvara Simhananda (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Black Manjushri, Yellow Dzambala, Avalokiteshvara Simhananda, Shabala Garuda, Sakya Dorje Shugden Tanag, Tsui Marpo and Setrap. Avalokiteshvara is a popular archetypal Bodhisattva...
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Four-Armed Chenrezig (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Shakyamuni, Maitreya, Manjushri, Four-Armed Chenrezig, Vajrapani, Six-Armed Mahakala and Dorje Shugden. The thangka here depicts the “Three Protectors”, known in Tibetan...
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Vajrasattva (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Amitabha, Buddha Samantabhadra, Vajrasattva, Vajrakilaya and Dorje Shugden. The Buddha Vajrasattva first appeared in ancient India and his tantric practice centres primarily...
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H.H. the 31st Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga Lodro (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Hevajra, Vajrayogini, H.H. the 31st Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga Lodro, Mahakala of the Doors and Sakya...
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H.H. the 10th Panchen Lama (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Amitabha, Lama Tsongkhapa, H.H. the 10th Panchen Lama, Tsangpa Karpo and Dorje Shugden. The Panchen Lama line of incarnations...
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Yamantaka (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Six-Armed Mahakala, Palden Lhamo, Yamantaka, Kalarupa and Dorje Shugden. Yamantaka or Vajrabhairava is one of the three Kingly Tantras (Tib: Sang De Jig...
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Red Vasudhara (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Kurukulle, Tinuma, Marichi, Red Vasudhara, Sakya Dorje Shugden Tanag, Dorje Setrap and Tsui Marpo. Vasudhara’s name literally means ‘A stream of jewels’...
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Kurukulle (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Takkiraja, Maharakta Ganapati, Kurukulle, Setrap and Sakya Dorje Shugden Tanag. The sublime Kurukulle is a female deity who is red in colour. Her...
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Dorje Shugden (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen, Buddha Shakyamuni, Manjushri, Dorje Shugden, Brahmarupa and Setrap. In the 17th century, the high lama Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen was...
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H.H. the 4th Panchen Lama (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Manjushri, H.H. the 4th Panchen Lama, H.H. the 5th Dalai Lama, Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen, Dorje Shugden and Four-Faced Mahakala....
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Heruka Chakrasamvara in the Kagyu Tradition (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Shakyamuni, Buddha Vajradhara, Heruka Chakrasamvara, Four-faced Mahakala and Dorje Shugden. Heruka is the principle deity of the...
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Sakya Dorje Shugden Tanag (Main figure) (Top to bottom): H.H. the 39th Sakya Trizin Dragshul Trinley Rinchen, Vajrayogini, Sakya Dorje Shugden Tanag, Mahakala of the Doors and Citipati. Dorje...
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Avalokiteshvara Simhananda (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Chenrezig Ngesung Kundrol, Migchey Chenrezig, Avalokiteshvara Simhananda and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Avalokiteshvara Simhananda (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Chenrezig Sengetra (Tibetan) Avalokiteshvara is a...
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Dukkar (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Dukkar and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Dukkar (Tibetan) Alternative names: Sitatapatra (Sanskrit); White Parasol (English) The awe-inspiring Dukkar is an extremely efficacious female deity....
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Achi Chokyi Drolma (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Achi Chokyi Drolma, Vajradhara, Vajravarahi and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Achi Chokyi Drolma (Tibetan) Achi Chokyi Drolma is the special protectress who...
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