(By Pastor Loh Seng Piow) One cold winter night in New York City, Tsem Rinpoche saw a homeless man and dog in New York City, watch what Tsem Rinpoche did… Tsem Rinpoche’s compassion is timeless and borderless, since 20 years ago Tsem Rinpoche already started giving food to the homeless in India, and later...
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Dear friends, When I left home at 16, I hitchhiked from New Jersey to Los Angeles in search of a Dharma center. I hopped into any cars that would take me, and when I was back on my feet walking along highways, I had no choice but to sleep along roadsides, on sidewalks...
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Dear friends, There are many of you who have requested to meet His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche while he is here in America after 26 years. We understand and appreciate that you are excited to meet Rinpoche. Rinpoche says he is humbled. But we need to arrange a few things first. Do bear with us....
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In Buddhist tradition, it is extremely meritorious to make offerings to the Sangha, as it is the Sangha that compassionately give us the Dharma that help us in our spiritual path.
Posted in Kechara - 13 Depts | 30 Comments »
Recently, Jim Yeh and Erik Yeh visited Kechara all the way from Canada and India! The blog team has approached Erik to learn more about him, his brother and how he has doubts about his business...
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The news is out and Kechara Media & Publications' latest release "If Not Now, When? The Love Edition" have been featured in the Right Read section in The Sun newspaper!
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On 28 December 2012, Kechara Oasis (KO) organized an event called, “Shanghai Nite”. Everyone got the chance to join in the event and to dress up in their best Chinese traditional costume. The guests enjoyed EIGHTEEN types of delicious vegetarian, Shanghainese food! They were specially created for the event: Braised Peanut, Sweet & Sour...
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Anyway today I received this really nice update from Siong Woan who is KSK's treasurer, saying that Encik Faiz is finally off the streets.
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Today, I received an update from some of my students that Bryan, one of my PO, gave a talk to the Chinese group during Kechara Sunday Service.
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On 19 March 2011, Kechara Blooms (KB) officially opened! It is one of the depts of Kechara. Kechara has 13 depts. Initially, Kechara Blooms did a lot of inter-departmental jobs. All of the beautiful flower arrangements offered on the main altar of Kechara House gompa, are done by them… so are the floral decorations for our in-house...
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Last week, Dato' Ruby Khong (President of Kechara Soup Kitchen) invited YB Dato' Seri Liow Tiong Lai to visit Kechara Forest Retreat (KFR). Dato' Seri is a nutritionist by profession, and has been Malaysian's Health Minister for the past 4 years. As our Health Minister, I was glad to hear that Dato' Seri himself...
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About a week ago, Liaison Li Kim, the CEO of Kechara Media and Publications was invited for a brief interview on Bernama news station. In this short interview, Li Kim and Gerard Ratnam, the host of Bernama Today; discussed a little about my pictorial biography book, The Promise, what Kechara and KMP is all...
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I thank the media for their kind and generous support of our activities. They really do not have an easy job and at times tedious, but they work hard to bring news and updates to everyone. Again I appreciate their support very much. Tsem Rinpoche Kechara House to hold pastor ordination event...
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Dear friends, I am staying at Kechara Forest Retreat in a container. And everyday I go out to oversee the works progressing. There are plenty of volunteers that come daily to help. There are even volunteers I have never met or know who they are. How nice of them to join in to create...
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Dear friends, A lot of work have been going on at Kechara Forest Retreat (KFR) for the past 2 weeks. I have been staying on site and directly overseeing the expansion of our temporary abode, Kechara Village, our main temple and Ladrang. A lot of land clearing is being done on a daily basis, so that...
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Transcript: Dear Rinpoche, As a token of gratification and appreciation, as well as to set the best motivation for starting my dharma work at KH today, I would like to offer you Je Rinpoche’s box set, books, stupa to represent the enlightened body, speech and mind, in order to create the causes for...
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Dear Alysa and Daryl, Thank you for such a heart-warming, sincere and beautiful Birthday wish for me. I was very touched by your message and felt so much good energy from both of you. I thank you for asking Kuan Yin to bless me as we all need Her blessings daily....
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On the 17th of October, I was invited to hold a press conference. The media wanted to know more about the pastorship vows that I will be conferring onto 3 people on my birthday next week. How kind of the press to be interested and I was glad to share with them. Early that...
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Dear friends, We have extra five acres here at Kechara Forest Retreat and it’s almost unused. So I have decided to build Kechara Village on this land. It’s just more viable and practical for many reasons. Also it’s on our own land and I will bring the energy to this land by staying here...
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