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The 61st Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Tsultrim was born at Darwo near Chone Monastery in Amdo in 1721. He received the vows of primary ordination at the age of 7 at Tsador Monastery...
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The 61st Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Tsultrim was born at Darwo near Chone Monastery in Amdo in 1721. He received the vows of primary ordination at the age of 7 at Tsador Monastery...
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The great Mahasiddha Naropa was born the prince of an ancient kingdom in East India. Descended from a notable and respected royal family, Naropa’s father was the great King Santivarman and his mother was the glorious Queen Srimati...
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An Shigao (安世高), a Parthian monk also known as Parthamasiris, was the first translator of Buddhist texts into Chinese and an early Buddhist missionary to China...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Adeline) Formerly known as David Hewavitharne, Anagarika Dharmapala (Sinhalese: අනගාරික ධර්මපාල) of Sri Lanka was one of the most revered Buddhist revivalists and writers of the 20th Century. He was well known as a significant reformer of Buddhism in Sri Lanka as well as one of the founding fathers...
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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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(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 this great intellectual and his work is his insight into Wisdom (below), which is one of the Five Spiritual Faculties or indriya (Pali/Sanskrit). This set...
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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 the 20th century. He was a fully ordained monk of the Theravada tradition, an erudite scholar and author of a number of important books on...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Joy Kam) The Birth of One of India’s Great Scholars A renowned scholar of the Vedas, Buddhism and the Indian arts, a philosopher, and one of India’s great thinkers, Professor Lokesh Chandra was born to an illustrious family of educationists in Ambala, Haryana State, in 1927. He is currently the...
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Chokgyur Lingpa was born at the base of the sacred mountain Namkhadzod in Nangchen on the 10th day of either the 6th or the 10th month of the female earth ox year...
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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 Buddhist doctrine (also known as Shingon Mikkyo), one of the few esoteric forms of Buddhism outside Tibetan Buddhism, which he received from his root guru,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David Lai) Dear friends, I was given a book called ‘Niguma, the Lady of Illusion’ recently. Although I have read bits and pieces about this dakini’s life online in the past, I did not really know much about her. Hence, reading this book was to be my first serious...
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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 were pivotal in the early transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the west, especially his iconic early translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead published...
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Sophia: Suffragette Princess Introduction Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh was born on August 8, 1876 to Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, and Maharani Bamba Müller, the daughter of a German father and Abyssinian mother who had grown up in Cairo and spoke only Arabic at first. Her parents...
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In 1642, a reincarnation of one of Buddha Shakyamuni’s disciples was born the son of a very poor herdsman in Mongolia. Gifted and recognized as a “khuvilgaan” or tulku at the young age of three, Luvsanperenlei would breeze through his local monastic education and later moved to Lhasa, Tibet to attend Drepung Monastery where...
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Yul Brynner was an actor most famous for his portrayal of King Mongkut in Rodger and Hammerstein’s musical, ‘The King and I’. Writing this article brought back many fond memories of my childhood. When I was a child, my parents let me watch the old 1956 version of ‘The King And I’ and I...
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Гандан хийдэд анхлан би ирээд шууд Зон Ладранд хүрч очсон юм. Ладран гэдэг нь ламын өргөө, сууц гэсэн Төвд үг болно. Сүүлд би 1987 оны аравдугаар сард Америк орныг орхиж мөн оны арван хоёрдугаар сард Дээрхийн Гэгээнтэн Далай Ламаас сахил хүртсэн юм. Түүний дараагаар Балба оронд хүрч эцэст нь 1988 оны нэгдүгээр сард Өмнөд...
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I have to say the review was very well done and reflects very well of the content of The Promise which was published by Kechara Media & Publications (KMP).
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On the 26/07/2012, the press from Malaysia's national television station, NTV 7 visited Kechara House for the official launch of my biography book The Promise.
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November 19, 2010 With Chinese subtitles May 25, 2012 A team from Kechara went to the USA to interview my friends and family about myself. Asked them what they remembered about me growing up in New Jersey and Los Angeles. This is a condensed video of all the interviews they did with my: Sister...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, I was instructed by one of my teachers years ago to do a book on my biography. I didn’t want to do it. I thought that my life was nothing exceptional at all. My teacher insisted. I couldn’t say “no” anymore although I am kind of embarrassed to talk...
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