(By Tsem Rinpoche) A curious, yet ethereal photograph of Lord Buddha has been in circulation for quite some time. Supposedly a photograph taken of Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha Shakyamuni, it raises a lot more questions than answers. According to rumours, the photograph was taken by a devotee visiting the holy site of...
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The Modern Diplomacy article below alludes to the CTA being the same old feudalistic government, albeit with a new coat of paint and some labels by which it proceeds to regard itself as a democratic government...
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Initial DNA analysis of Paracas elongated skull released – with incredible results 5 February, 2014 – 13:47 by April Holloway Paracas is a desert peninsula located within the Pisco Province in the Inca Region, on the south coast of Peru. It is here were Peruvian archaeologist, Julio Tello, made an amazing discovery in 1928...
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("The Tribune" Publishes Dalai Lama Planning to Visit China) ༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་གིས་རང་ཉིད་སྒེར་གྱི་ཐོག་ནས་རྒྱ་ནག་ལ་ཐུགས་འཕྲད་དུ་བསྐྱོད་རྒྱུའི་འཆར་གཞི་ཞིག་གནང་གི་ཡོད་པ་དང་། ངས་ཡིད་ཆེས་མི་ཐུབ་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ་འདི་འདྲ་ཞིག་གོ་དུས།
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For most people, probably the first time they ever saw someone driven to self-immolation to defend their beliefs was during the Viet Nam War. Back then, a Buddhist monk by the name of Venerable Thich Quang Duc calmly entered meditation as he burned to death. He was protesting the persecution of Buddhists in his...
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Since 1996, practitioners of the Tibetan Buddhist Protector Dorje Shugden have been unfairly segregated, ostracised, suppressed and persecuted by the Tibetan leadership, also known as the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) who are based in Dharamsala, North India. For over 20 years, Shugden practitioners have suffered from discrimination simply because of their choice of religious...
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Since the Tibetans first entered into an exiled existence in 1959, the vast majority of them have found a home and refuge in India. They reestablished themselves on 27 tracts of land throughout India which were granted to them by the government under Jawarhalal Nehru, the Prime Minister at the time. On these pieces...
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Over three days in January 2018, Dorje Shugden practitioners and representatives from 20 countries around the world gathered in Kathmandu, Nepal to discuss the direction and preservation of the lineage. Hosted at the Yak and Yeti Hotel, the conference began on January 4 with an opening ceremony officiated by ministers from the Nepali Government,...
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On 21 December 2015, Reuters published a special investigation of the Dorje Shugden issue titled “China co-opts a Buddhist sect in global effort to smear Dalai Lama”. It was supposed to be an unbiased investigation into the Dorje Shugden movement and its alleged links to China. The report has since reverberated throughout the world,...
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Dear friends, I was pleased to be informed that The Huffington Post (HuffPost) just published a third article on the Dorje Shugden conflict. I can only guess that after the initial articles by HuffPost on this issue in mid-November 2017, the writer Mr. Martin Desai was intrigued to dig deeper into the matter. And...
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I have interests in many subjects. I just don’t have enough time in the day to get deeper into many of the subjects that captures my mind. One of my field of interest is science. Not too long ago, I blogged about the discovery of the Goldilocks Planet. This is a term used to...
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(Oleh Tsem Rinpoche) Kepada sahabat di seluruh dunia, Pada tanggal 25 Desember 2016, Kechara mendapatkan pahala besar dan hak istimewa untuk mempersembahkan sebuah kediaman resmi kepada penubuat Dorje Shugden, Yang Mulia Panglung Kuten ke-7 Thubten Phelgye Jigme Namgyal, atau lebih dikenal sebagai Choje-la. Kediaman ini bernama Panglung Ritroe untuk mengenang Panglung Ritroe terdahulu di...
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Dear friends around the world, I was in the planning stages and preparation for my retirement these few weeks when I was given this incredible news that that His Holiness the Dalai Lama is planning a private visit to China!
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Just two weeks after the Huffington Post wrote its first exposé of the Dorje Shugden controversy on November 14, 2017, they have published a follow-up. The Huffington Post, widely known as HuffPost, is an immensely popular digital media group that has won many awards for its commitment to deliver fair and balanced journalism. HuffPost...
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Since it was launched in 2005, Huffington Post, or HuffPost as it is affectionately nicknamed, has developed a reputation for serious journalism that is easily digestible. Named for its founder Ariana Huffington, the online-only liberal publication offers news, satire, as well as opinion pieces. Their original content, lauded for its fair and unbiased approach,...
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I love Tibet ཪང་སྲིད་རང་སྐྱོང་གི་སྲིད་དབང་ཟེར་བ་ནི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཞིག་གི་ནང་ལ་གནས་པ་གང་ཞིག་ལ་སོ་སོའི་རང་ངོས་ནས་གཞུང་སྐྱོང་ཆོག་པའི་གནང་བ་ཡོད་པའི་མངའ་སྡེ་འམ་ཞིང་ཆེན་ཞིག་ལ་ཟེར། ཡིན་ནའང་དེ་ཉིད་ལ་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་ཐོག་ལ་གཞུང་ཞིག་གི་རྣམ་པ་མེད་པ་དང་། རང་དབང་གི་ཐོག་ནས་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་གཞན་དང་མཉམ་དུ་འབྲེལ་ལམ་བྱེད་མི་ཆོག འོན་ཀྱང་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་དེ་དང་དེའི་ནང་ལ་རང་དབང་གི་ཐོག་ནས་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ་ལྟ་བུའི་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་ག་རེ་བྱེད་ཀྱང་ཆོག་གི་ཡོད་པ་རེད། དེ་འདྲ་སོང་ཙང་། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་དེ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་མངའ་སྡེ་ལྟ་བུ་ཞིག་ཡིན་པས། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་དེའི་ཁྲིམས་གཞིར་གཞག་ཐོག་བསྐྱོད་དགོས་པ་དང་། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་དེའི་ནང་གི་...
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Pour les bouddhistes de toutes traditions, le jour de Wesak est le jour le plus important de l’année. C’est le jour que Bouddha Shakyamuni a choisi pour manifester trois actes sacrés – le jour où il a pris sa renaissance, le jour où il est devenu éveillé et le jour où il est passé...
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When my Tsem Ladrang team received an invitation to the opening of Kyabje Zawa Rinpoche’s new centre, I was very very happy to hear this news. Whenever anyone is successful in establishing or propagating Lama Tsongkhapa’s tradition anywhere in the world, it is important for us to rejoice. It does not matter whether the...
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Dear friends, Sometimes I come across thought-provoking videos, and I think it would be good to share these gems of wisdom with everybody. The transcripts of these short videos are also made available below for easy reference. Do visit this page again as there will be more videos uploaded here from time to time....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, On December 25, 2016, Kechara had the great merits and privilege to offer an official place of residence to the oracle of Dorje Shugden, His Eminence the 7th Panglung Kuten Thubten Phelgye Jigme Namgyal, affectionately known as Choje-la. This residence is called Panglung Ritroe in commemoration...
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