I requested KECHARA CARE dept headed under Liaison Su Ming to arrange a dinner for our volunteers, staff, liaisons and friends who worked so hard to make Wesak Day such a successful day. I was just amazed how beautifully everything was done. So I asked Su Ming to offer everyone a wonderful THANK YOU...
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Wesak 2011 (By Tsem Rinpoche) Yesterday was Wesak Day, a national holiday in Malaysia. Malaysian Govt recognizes the important spiritual holidays of all religions…it’s beautiful. Wesak Day was the date Lord Buddha chose to take rebirth, enact enlightenment and also enter Paranirvana. It is the holiest day in the Buddhist calendar. I had the...
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Yesterday, we had our annual Wesak Fair! It was held at a park within the same community as our Kechara departments and gompa. I have asked one of my students to do a little write-up for the blog… and have added some pictures below the article. Do take a look at another one of...
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Kechara Paradise (KP) under the leadership of Liaison Henry Ooi has spread its wings to Viva Home Mall. They have been looking for many many months since 2010 for the right location to open another KP outlet since 2010. This is because during their many road shows, they have come across many customers who...
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“Save the Earth Now!” is the slogan for Kechara Earth Project (KEP), and everything that they do revolves around it… As a Kechara division that is keen to bring awareness to the preservation of the environment, KEP has been carrying out various recycling activities and awareness campaigns. KEP was formed on 25 April 2010...
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When I first requested Liaison Irene Lim, who is one of my oldest students and a friend for 19 years now, to open up a Vegetarian restaurant for Kechara, Irene took this assignment and went all the way with it. Irene had no hesitation to start a restaurant for us….. She first opened Kechara Oasis...
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Irene has been a long time student, friend and assistant for me for over 19 years. I have met her for the first time in Kuala Lumpur when I gave the Manjushri initiation. She has been with me loyally ever since. She has travelled with me to many holy places and visited Gaden numerous...
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I often send Kechara staff and volunteers to the movies or an outing to appreciate all of them. I really care about all the people working for Kechara. Last week, all 33 staff from Kechara Oasis (KO) went to the HBO cinema to catch the movie, The Dragon Lady. I thought that it would...
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My good friend and student of nearly 20yrs, Wan Wai Meng, has recently sent me an update. His pet project named Kechara Earth Project...
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Yet another Dharma House has manifested. This time it is for Kechara Paradise’s hardworking staff! I have named the house Dzambala house, and it will be occupied by Junior from Sarawak, Jack from Negeri Sembilan, Jazz from Johor, Eric and Adrian from KL. They are sincere, young, dedicated, out of town boys that work...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) A question from my blog: Rinpoche, why did you choose Setrap for kechara House to practice? I heard that when you were young, you really like Pelden Hlamo. So why do you give Setrap to all of your students? From Losang B Dear Losang, This is a really good...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Tonight, in part of my talk at Kechara House’s Setrap Retreat, I explained about Setrap and why we make wrathful offerings to Dharma Protectors. Setrap is the Dharma Protector of Gaden Shartse, and also Kechara House. He is the wrathful emanation of Buddha Amitabha so as an enlightened Being, all of...
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In the past few months, many full-time staff have joined Kechara, and I rejoice for this. I got the blog team to interview them, and I hope their stories will inspire you too. The 9 who have joined full-time are: Darren Leong (Kechara Paradise 1-Utama, Retail Assistant) Dawa Wu (to be based in KP...
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On Wednesday, Dato’ Ruby Khong, the President of Kechara Soup Kitchen, was invited to speak at an open talk hosted by “Live and Inspire”. This was held at Starbucks, in Bangsar Village 2. The “Live and Inspire” series has run for 45 episodes, and they have won two awards since they started: ‘Global Entrepreneurship...
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A few years back I approached one student to open a restaurant for KECHARA. But the student declined citing various reasons. There are people who find reasons to win and some do not. So I approached Irene and asked her to open and without hesitation she said yes. Irene has never operated a restaurant...
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Uncle Lai joined Kechara a few years back. He had many spiritual questions and many went unanswered for years. When his son joined Kechara, his son would share the many things he had learned at Kechara with his dad in the evenings. They would sit together to talk, exchange views and ponder. Uncle Lai...
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Kechara Media & Publications (KMP) is the publishing arm of Kechara. With 10 talented people in the team (including admin staff etc), they have published 25 books, 4 box sets (2 in Chinese, 2 in English) and 5 prayer books!!! Wow! The wonderful team (photo; right) is led by Li Kim (center). With her leadership,...
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This MMS was sent to me yesterday: Dearest Rinpoche… Fishes have all been released: 300 kg of catfish dedicated to Ladrang – requested by Rinpoche (this is for every Ladrang members long life, happiness and spiritual growth) 88kg dedicated to Kechara Care & Kechara House by Su Ming 100kg dedicated to Rinpoche’s long life...
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While spring cleaning through my personal items, the Ladrang staff and I sorted through several cards (greeting cards, birthday cards etc). One of them had a beautiful photo of Samantabhadra with his white consort that a student of mine gave to me a while ago. The style was very simple and earthy…very very beautiful....
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MPH (Malaya Publishing House) has 18 outlets all over Malaysia and they are one of the biggest bookstores in the country. We have had many associations with them in the past…launching our major books there like “If Not Now When?” (amongst our other books), promoting two of our KMP star writers biography (Jamie and...
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