(By Tsem Rinpoche) As a student within the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, it is important for us to learn as much as we can about the founder of our lineage, Lama Tsongkhapa. Here are some short stories and facts to share with you to build your knowledge as well as confidence in the...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In the language of ancient India (Sanskrit), Tara literally means ‘Savioress’. She is a female Buddha with a particularly long history of being worshipped by many great Indian and Tibetan masters. The practice of Tara originally descended from ancient India during the time of the great Indian Buddhist institutions. In the...
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（译文请往下阅读） (By Tsem Rinpoche) Thank you so much Pastor Shin, Beatrix, Pastor David, Abby, Pastor Lanse, Pastor Jean Ai and a few others for working these few days on getting the Manjushri post out. Thank you for having it translated into Chinese so many more can practice this sacred Manjushri. I know all of you have put in a lot of effort and late nights. Manjushri is very special to our Gelugpa lineage as he is in all lineages and traditions. It is the main Yidam of Lama Tsongkhapa and Manjushri confers all types of mental perfections to help u...
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I have been a student of H.E. Tsem Rinpoche for almost 5 years and a practicing Tibetan Buddhist for about the same time. But this is not the first time I have regarded myself as a Buddhist. I was a ‘Buddhist’ when I was a child although in essence I was more of a...
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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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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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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear students and friends, In Buddhism, there are various practices that we can engage in to help remove obstacles and receive the conditions that we need in order to pursue our path to enlightenment. Being in samsara, we are subjected to and influenced by certain rules that are not within our...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) When Buddhas give teachings, it is specifically to benefit the listener. When the listener applies the teachings of the Buddhas and becomes enlightened, that person becomes another Buddha, and that person may teach others and so on. Therefore the number of Buddhas in existence is limitless, and the number of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The Praise to Mañjuśrī ༄༅། །དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཡོན་ཏན་བཟང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟོད་པ། ། The Praise to Mañjuśrī: Glorious Wisdom’s Excellent Qualities རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། །ཤྲཱི་ཛྙཱ་ན་གུ་ཎ་བྷ་དྲ་ནཱ་མསྟུ་སྟི། ། In the language of India: śrī jñāna guṇa bhadra nāma stuti བོད་སྐད་དུ། །དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཡོན་ཏན་བཟང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟོད་པ། ། In the language of Tibet: dpal ye shes yon tan bzang po zhes bya ba’i bstod pa Begin Praise བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། chomden dé jampé yang la chaktsal lo Homage to the Lord Mañjughoṣa! གང་གི་བློ་གྲོས་...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) People have asked me thousands of times what practice should they do daily. They are busy, pressured for time and have heavy commitments. I understand. I sympathize that with so little time, they are sincere enough to connect with something higher daily. Perhaps for sanity’s sake or perhaps from realizations that...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, In the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition, when one’s teacher is ill, we can request great lamas to compose special prayers that invoke the blessings of the Three Jewels to increase the life of our teacher. Or if our teacher has the ability from meditation to increase his own life then...
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According to Kyabje Trijang Dorje Chang, the Praise to Manjushri (Gang-lo-ma) was composed by 100 Indian Mahasiddhas who had gathered together in praise of Manjushri. Each Mahasiddha recited separately in veneration of Manjushri, who at that time blessed their minds. Ninety-nine of them wrote the same praise, which together became known as Gang-lo-ma. The...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) What is Serkyem? What is its purpose? Why is it performed? The Serkyem or Golden Drink offering, is part of Dharma Protector’s practice like that of Setrap Chen’s practice. In Tibetan,Ser means ‘golden’ and Kyem means ‘beverage’. Serkyem remains largely a unique aspect of the Dharma Protector practice. Lamas...
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Black Manjushri is the wrathful healing form of Manjushri that helps us to heal our deep inner negative emotions and mental suffering that arise due to sickness or problems; it is also a powerful antidote against the harm and disturbances caused by negative astrological influences. Get started on the practice by clicking any of...
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（中文请往下看） Update 6 December 2012 Here’s a picture of smiling little Gabriel taken this afternoon. Gabriel’s mom Ellena shared that when she massaged Gabriel sometime this week and for the first time in 1 year, Gabriel was able to make a sound! Pastor Susan Lim went to visit Gabriel today. She gave blessings, prayer, words of comfort as well as shared with him about the upcoming Lama Tsongkhapa Day, and also the updates on Kechara Forest Retreat. Gabriel smiled when Pastor Susan asked him to visit Kechara Forest Retreat and play w...
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Mama Mooi Lan On the evening of May 19, I sadly went to perform funeral rites for Mama Mooi Lan… Mama Mooi Lan is my long-time Dharma friend who helped me a lot when I first came to Malaysia. She has been my friend and supporter for 20 years now. We have had a...
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Dear friends, Today I visited four large Buddhist Temples here in Kelantan State in East Coast Malaysia. Afterwards the blog team and I went to the Beach (August 8, 2011) to film a Paranormal episode, teachings on the Yoga of Tsongkapa in abbreviated commentary and also a story about the attitude behind Dharma work...
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List of Prayers A Short Daily Sadhana Eight Verses of Training The Mind Offering The Mandala Other Preliminary Prayers Taking Refuge and Generating Bodhicitta The Four Immeasurables The Nine Attitudes of Devotion to the Guru Advice from Atisha’s Heart Light Offering Prayer General Prayers 50 Verses of Guru Devotion Long-life Prayer by Kensur Konchok...
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As most of you all know by now, Kechara Media & Publications is the publishing arm of the Kechara Organization. Kechara Media & Publications is also affectionately known as KMP. Their mandate is simple – produce Dharma books that everyone can read and understand easily, and it is relevant to their everyday lives. Buddha’s...
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Introduction Namgyalma (Tibetan: rnam rgyal ma; རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མ།), also known as ‘Ushnisha Vijaya‘ in Sanskrit, is one of the three Long Life deities commonly practiced within the Gaden Nyengyu tradition. She is a special emanation of the Supreme Healer Vairocana. Engaging in Namgyalma’s practice or reciting her mantra can bestow the practitioner with infinite benefits regardless if they are Buddhists or not. Benefits Purifies karmic obstructions Reverts fixed karma Increases one’s lifespan Eliminates various illnesses...
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