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Jeong Kwan: The Zen Buddhist Chef

Nov 24, 2018
Jeong Kwan: The Zen Buddhist Chef

Ven. Jeong Kwan is a 61-year-old Zen Buddhist nun who has lived the life of a hermit for the past 44 years. Born into a Korean family with six other siblings, she grew up on a farm and learnt to make noodles by hand at the age of just seven. This deeply impressed her...

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Dr. Ambedkar: Supreme Champion of Human Rights

Nov 8, 2018
Dr. Ambedkar: Supreme Champion of Human Rights

(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Shin Tan) October 14, 1956 was a historic day for India. On this day, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, a social reformer and the chief architect of India’s Constitution, renounced Hinduism and converted to Buddhism along with around 400,000 of his followers in Nagpur. This event was historic not only because...

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House of Shambhala

Sep 8, 2018
House of Shambhala

In Tibetan lore, Shambhala is a magical, beautiful and mythical kingdom, although many Buddhists believe that it really exists because it is described within the Kalachakra Tantra as elucidated by His Holiness the great Panchen Rinpoche in the book he composed called Shambhala Lam Yig. In it, His Holiness the Panchen Rinpoche describes clearly how to...

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Hermit – A Profound Documentary by Bill Porter

Aug 21, 2018
Hermit – A Profound Documentary by Bill Porter

  Introduction The pursuit of spiritual perfection has fascinated mankind since the beginning of religious practice in the world. Over time, there have arisen many religions, philosophies and ways of life dedicated to finding the meaning of life and the nature of reality. Buddhism is one such religion that emphasises this pursuit. Within the...

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Postcard from Raymond: “Monk’s Posture”

Aug 21, 2018
Postcard from Raymond: “Monk’s Posture”

This photograph won the first prize in the China category of National Geographic’s 2017 photography contest. Though, it may just look like a photo of people sleeping on a fast moving train in China, it has deep significance...

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Posted in China 中国, Current Affairs & News, Inspiration & Worthy Words | 14 Comments »

Nechung – A Dissertation by Christopher Bell

Aug 19, 2018
Nechung – A Dissertation by Christopher Bell

(By Tsem Rinpoche) Over the years there have been a number of studies on the Dharma Protector Nechung who is commonly known as Pehar Gyalpo. Amongst the various works on Dharma Protectors, one of the most influential and condensed was written by Dr Christopher Paul Bell, an expert in Asian/Tibetan Religions. For his doctorate...

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The Miraculous White Tara of the Majapahit Empire

Aug 11, 2018
The Miraculous White Tara of the Majapahit Empire

In 2012, a White Tara statue in Surabaya, Indonesia, was thrust into the spotlight when her eyes, sculpted closed in meditation, suddenly opened and glanced to the side...

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Pusa-Ding of Mount Wutai

Aug 5, 2018
Pusa-Ding of Mount Wutai

Dear Rinpoche, I came across this article today which features The Summit of Bodhisattva, Pusa-Ding Monastery – Wutaishan. According to the article, Emperor Kangxi visited this monastery...

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Posted in Asia, China, China 中国, Guest Contributors, Travel | 9 Comments »

62-Deity Heruka Chakrasamvara Sadhana of the Luipa Tradition

Aug 1, 2018
62-Deity Heruka Chakrasamvara Sadhana of the Luipa Tradition

In his teachings, Lord Buddha proclaimed that desire is the most potent form of delusion within our realm of existence and as such he labelled it the “Desire Realm”. Lord Buddha went on to elaborate that there are actually three realms of existence, known as the Form Realm, Formless Realm and Desire Realm, each...

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The Sacred Vajrayogini of Ratsag Monastery

Jul 27, 2018
The Sacred Vajrayogini of Ratsag Monastery

(by Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David Lai)   The Founding of Ratsag Monastery According to an inscription, Ra Bende Yonten Gyalpo founded Ratsag Monastery in the Yab Valley of Tolung, near Lhasa in the early half of the 11th century. It was built through the generous patronage of the noble Sego family. However, Go...

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H.H. Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche’s Sacred Vajra Yogini

Jul 24, 2018
The current form of Naro Kacho Vajra Yogini appeared to the Indian Mahasiddha Naropa after he meditated intensely on her practice inside a cave. He beheld her glorious form in a vision. This unique form became known as Naropa’s Vajra Yogini or Naro Kacho, as it had never existed before. Later, in Tibet, His Holiness Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche also had visions of Vajra Yogini. His vision differed slightly from the vision of her that Naropa beheld. In the original Naro Kacho form, Vajra Yogini looks towards her pure land named Kechara. However in Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche’s vision, she looked straight at him, symbolic of the deity empowering him to bestow her practice to many people in order to benefit them. The practice of Vajra Yogini belongs to the Highest Yoga Tantra classification that leads to tremendous inner transformation and can even grant enlightenment within just one lifetime. Click on image to enlarge.

The current form of Naro Kachö Vajra Yogini appeared to the Mahasiddha Naropa after he meditated in a cave and focused on her sadhana, her rituals and her special generation and completion stage practices. After Naropa had accomplished Vajra Yogini’s path, which means that he had gained the attainments of her practice, she appeared...

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Duldzin Drakpa Gyeltsen

Jul 13, 2018
Duldzin Drakpa Gyeltsen

Duldzin Drakpa Gyeltsen was born in Drangyul, in U in 1374. A Kadampa monk, he was a main disciple of Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa and Gyeltsab Darma Rinchen...

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The Sixty-Four Yogini Temple of Hirapur, India

Jun 27, 2018
The Sixty-Four Yogini Temple of Hirapur, India

The sixty-four yogini temple in Hirapur sits on an ancient piece of land once ruled by the old Kalinga kingdom. Buddhism and Tantric practice flourished here, and the cult of the yogini evolved as Tantra took hold in these lands...

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Posted in Asia, Buddhas, Dharma & Practice, Travel, Vajra Yogini | 33 Comments »

詹杜固仁波切的精彩传记《承诺》电子版面世!

Jun 16, 2018
詹杜固仁波切的精彩传记《承诺》电子版面世!

20年前,我们的上师尊贵的第廿五世詹杜固仁波切首次接获其上师的指示撰写传记。那个时候,仁波切婉拒上师的建议,并向上师表示无人对自己的故事感兴趣,

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Sacred Yamdrok Yumtso Lake: The Abode of Goddess Dorje Geg Kyi Tso

Jun 6, 2018
Sacred Yamdrok Yumtso Lake: The Abode of Goddess Dorje Geg Kyi Tso

One of the four largest sacred lakes of Tibet, Yamdrok Yumtso is believed to be the physical manifestation of the goddess known as Dorje Geg Kyi Tso...

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Dharma Translated: Videos in Chinese | 佛法之中文视频分享

May 31, 2018
Dharma Translated: Videos in Chinese | 佛法之中文视频分享

Back in 2001, I had no inkling of just how involved in Dharma I would become. As a Masters degree-holder in Engineering, I was working as a research engineer in Singapore when I met H.E. Tsem Rinpoche. Rinpoche’s Dharma talk left a strong impression on me and after a few encounters with Rinpoche, I started...

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Su Shi: The Song Dynasty Poet and Chan Buddhism Enthusiast

May 27, 2018
Su Shi: The Song Dynasty Poet and Chan Buddhism Enthusiast

Su Shi was a prominent figure in the Song Dynasty as well as a poet, calligrapher, writer, painter, gastronome, pharmacologist, and a statesman...

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Posted in Books & Poetry, Celebrities & People, China 中国, Guest Contributors | 14 Comments »

རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་ནས་ངོས་འཛིན་ཞུས་པའི་༧པཎ་ཆེན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སྐོར་༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་ལ་འགྱུར་བ་ཕྱིན་པ།

May 5, 2018
རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་ནས་ངོས་འཛིན་ཞུས་པའི་༧པཎ་ཆེན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སྐོར་༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་ལ་འགྱུར་བ་ཕྱིན་པ།

(Dalai Lama's Sudden Change of Mind About China-Backed Panchen Lama) ཉིན་འགའ་ཤས་སྔོན་ལ། ༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་གིས་མི་མང་པོ་ཧང་སངས་དགོས་པའི་བཀའ་སློབ་བསྩལ་ཡོད།

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达赖尊者突然改变对班禅额尔德尼·确吉杰布所持的立场

May 1, 2018
达赖尊者突然改变对班禅额尔德尼·确吉杰布所持的立场

几天前,达赖尊者做出了一项令许多人震惊的宣布。达赖尊者于2018年4月25日表示,根据“可靠消息”,他所认证的十一世班禅大师转世人选根敦确吉尼玛(也译为更登确吉尼玛)尚安然在世。

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The Fourth Dalai Lama, Yonten Gyatso

Apr 26, 2018
The Fourth Dalai Lama, Yonten Gyatso

Following the unexpected death of the Third Dalai Lama Sonam Gyatso in Mongolia in 1588, his patrons there decided to identify his reincarnation among their own people...

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