In the tantras such as Tara, White Tara, Vajrapani, Manjushri, Saraswati, Tsongkapa, Dukkar, Avalokitesvara, Oserchenma, Maitreya, etc, it is highly recommended you do not eat meat/eggs when you engage in their sadhanas, practice, retreats. When you do Tara Pujas (Drolchok), you are suppose to avoid meat or you shouldn’t engage in the pujas. In...
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Dear friends around the world, I am very happy to share some thoughts I had with you. Sometimes when I am doing my mantras, walking, speaking, sharing dharma, eating or just having tea, different thoughts arise. These have been placed into wonderful picture memes by our team here. Picture memes help people to remember...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear all, I gave a Dharma talk to a few of my students in my residence a while ago and I thought I’d share this on my blog for everyone to listen. In this video, I talked a little about the vastness of our mind, how our mind shapes our present...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) E = MC2 Enlightenment equals Motivation times the presence of Consciousness squared. Whenever my motivation starts to flag, I remember the nuns of Yarchen Monastery. Their compound (in the shape of a giant bodhi leaf) sits on a peninsula in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan...
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Lovely Vajra Yogini Buddha Lady who entices us away from the lures of samsara, please sustain us to gain bodhicitta, renunciation and sunyata so we may never be obstructed in our view of what creates suffering and what ends it. This would be wisdom arising. I pray to you lovely mistress of enlightenment to please place...
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The results of meditation will vary depending on your motivation... However, one thing is for sure, the benefits are limitless. They range from the simple opportunity to achieve some much needed silence at the end of the day, to enhancing brain performance, to being able to self-heal through the purification of our winds, and...
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Dear friends, Every member of our family that loves us is important. Be they human or animal. Many have pets that are more family than human family. Pets usually are loyal, uncomplaining and give us love, affection and company. When they pass, it can be as devastating as any human member of our family....
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, Extensive research and translations have been done on this incredible female devotee of Lord Buddha. Take your time to study up on her. We have arranged two translated texts from two Tibetan sources on her great deeds. May this inspire you very much as it did me. It will be beautiful to read how she brought so many on the path to dharma. High lamas in Tibetan have many previous lives where they took various incarnations to be of benefit to many beings. Magadha Sangmo is considered the first incarnation...
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Hollywood socialite. Miss India finalist. Bollywood actress.
Not the typical titles associated to women who would aspire to become Buddhist nuns. But then again, how set in stone are labels? The first Buddhist nun in history was named "Pajapati" at birth, meaning "leader of a great assembly". She became the first disciple of the...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Religion is just a label. It is the teachings of the religion that help nurture our innate goodness. Therefore I have always encouraged people of different backgrounds to practice their chosen religion with great faith and devotion. I will never try to distract and convert people from their religious teachers to Buddhism...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear everyone, Cindy Bird went through hardship and confusion in her spiritual journey, just like many of us have and perhaps are experiencing right now. However, in her story she tells us how she searched beyond the “normal” options that life presented her and in her active pursuit of spiritual progress,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, Over two decades ago I was in Gaden Shartse Monastery and I had a vivid dream. The dream was interesting because I dreamed I was in Drepung Monastery and had a senior monk accompanied by a young monk come visiting me. In my dream I had a...
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One of the lamas who first recognised me as a tulku back in 1987 was His Eminence Kyabje Gangchen Rinpoche. His Eminence is a world renown healing lama from Sera Monastery who now resides in Italy thanks to the ban on Dorje Shugden. Despite the obstacles, Kyabje Gangchen Rinpoche has worked tirelessly for many...
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An expression of your Compassion: A teaching by H.E. Tsem Rinpoche Tsem Rinpoche gave a really lovely teaching to a few of us yesterday about the significance of doing pujas (literal translation: a set of rituals and prayers done to remove obstacles). Here is the full, unedited transcript of his teaching, straight from the...
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Dear friends, This is really beautiful and I want to share these with you. Take a few minutes out to enjoy and be blessed. Tsem Rinpoche Tsongkhapa in Denma Gonsa Monastery Who was Lama Tsongkhapa? Lama Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) was a Buddhist scholar and saint who lived in Tibet during a time when...
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My dear friends, This is very powerful prayer to Heruka Chakrasamvara written by Changkya Rolpai Dorje or one of the previous incarnations of His Holiness Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche. This prayer can be done daily or as and when you like in order to create a closer connection to Heruka and Vajra Yogini. This prayer...
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This post was submitted by Kechara House, which is our temple (gompa) department. From the state of an exalted, white virtuous mind,I and all mother sentient beings, vast as space;From this moment until our Enlightenment,Go for refuge to the Gurus and the Three Precious Gems. (Verse 2, Lama Chopa composed by the...
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Advice from Atisha A Lamp for the Enlightened Path Advice to Namdak Tsuknor Bodhisattva’s Jewel Garland Translation by Thubten Jinpa Translation by Alexander Berzin The Jewel Rosary of an Awakening Warrior Essential Wealth for the Warrior-like People Who Wish to be Liberated Seven Point Mind Training Prayer Root Lines of Mahayana Mind Training...
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Dear friends around the world, These picture messages (memes) are to educate and highlight the heavy-handed discrimination that we as Dorje Shugden practitioners are experiencing worldwide since 1996, among so many of us, many of whom are without a voice. Please share these images with your family, friends and loved ones. We have to...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) His Holiness Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche was one of the most famous, sought-after and extremely powerful teachers of recent times in Tibet. Pabongka Rinpoche comes from a long line of incarnations stemming back to the tutors of the emperors of China, such as his incarnation as Changkya Rolpe Dorje. As Pabongka Tulku, this attained master is counted as the third of his incarnation lineage but prior to his name and recognition as Pabongka Tulku, He has had innumerable incarnations. When Pabongka Rinpoche taught in Tibet,...
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