（译文请往下阅读） The Rain Stopper A few years ago, I think in 2005, His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche and a few of us went to Kathmandu, Nepal to buy Buddha statues for our outlets in Malaysia, it was around July and it was a rainy season in Nepal, so it rained almost daily during the daytime and it made the shopping trip somewhat troublesome, because the statue shops in Nepal are mostly in Boudanath and it was not a covered shopping mall, you have to go from shop to shop in the rain. We were staying in Hyatt Regency Kathmandu then and it was raining quite h...
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（译文请往下阅读） His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche had a bad childhood, a really bad one. Born out of wedlock, his parents abandoned him, his grandmother paid USD$50 a month to a foster family to take care of him, the foster family abused him, beat him, punished him to kneel on rice grains for hours, starved him until he had to steal bread from shops to feed himself, and when the foster family did not starve him, they fed him white rice mixed with sugar until his teeth were rotten, and when Rinpoche’s grandmother bought him a wooden-horse toy, the fo...
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Being Rinpoche’s personal attendant means that I am able to witness real Dharma in action, both on and off the throne. I consider myself extremely fortunate, and at the same time it is also a great challenge to instil Dharma in my life 24/7. Over the years I have witnessed many cases of how Rinpoche helped many people in both worldly and supramundane ways, so I decided to have these stories told in comic form for the wider audience. It is my wish that through these stories many will be inspired to achieve the state of compassion and attai...
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Tsem Rinpoche was travelling in Willow Creek, Northern California a few weeks ago. We were there to take in the various sights and areas that Rinpoche had been reading about since he was a child. It was a very exciting trip for everyone, especially for Rinpoche, because for many years now Rinpoche had spoken...
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(Posted by Pastor Seng Piow) Tsem Rinpoche is always on the lookout for needy people on the streets, be it beggars or poor street sellers…Rinpoche will buy food for them, or buy their merchandise in bulk to help those who are poor but sincere so that they can go home early and rest. This...
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The pastorship role was conceptualized by His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche to preserve the Dharma and to give laypeople an opportunity to commit to benefiting others. The first Buddhist Pastors were ordained on 24th October 2011 and every year since then, more have made this commitment to bring the Buddha’s teachings to people in our...
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We were at Whole Foods Market buying items for offerings. Rinpoche likes Whole Foods because it sells organic groceries which are kind to the earth and help people to lead a more compassionate lifestyle. With a wide range of vegetarian and vegan items, the store also provides Rinpoche with the opportunity to get interesting...
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（中文请往下看） (posted by Kechara Pastors) It was during her 7th month of pregnancy that Joanna Tan requested H.E. Tsem Rinpoche to bless her baby with a name. Within a week, Rinpoche’s Personal Assistant advised Joanna to name her baby Jamyang, which means beauty, elegance and wisdom. Two weeks before baby Jamyang was born, Tsem Rinpoche also gifted Joanna with a statue of Buddha Manjushri, with specific instructions to place the statue near the baby to blessed him. After consulting with Kechara’s Pastors, Joanna also arranged for some pujas...
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(Posted by Admin) Update: 25th December, 23:59GMT We would first like to thank each and everyone of you who submitted an entry! In the last week, we received 163 entry submissions for the book competition from all around the world! Creativity is subjective and individually expressed, therefore we considered both the submitted image and...
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Tsem Rinpoche just sent this short teaching to some of us. I wanted to share it here so you have a glimpse into how Rinpoche thinks. In the midst of everything Rinpoche coordinates, organises, teaches and promotes, Rinpoche still has the care and time to think of the creatures everyone else often overlooks. Rinpoche’s...
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Being Rinpoche’s personal attendant means that I am able to witness real Dharma in action, both on and off the throne. I consider myself extremely fortunate, and at the same time it is also a great challenge to instil Dharma in my life 24/7. Over the years I have witnessed many cases of how Rinpoche helped many people in both worldly and supramundane ways, so I decided to have these stories told in comic form for the wider audience. It is my wish that through these stories many will be inspired to achieve the state of compassion and attai...
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Many of my close students know that I admire Findhorn… a spiritual community, education centre and eco-village located in Scotland. It was founded in 1962 by 3 people (Eileen Caddy, Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean), and now they have a community of 400 people living there! Those within the community abide by their 3 founding principals: deep inner listening (and...
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The Kechara KPMG Park carved in stone. Throughout this year, I have continuously received wonderful news from Valentina about Kechara Indonesia. One of them was that Kechara Indonesia, together with corporate sponsor KPMG Indonesia, created a community park for the locals in West Jarkarta! They also rebuilt a toilet for a nearby kindergarden,...
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（译文请往下阅读） A Cancer Survivor of 23 Years At the end of November 1996, His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche visited Penang, Malaysia. During this trip, Patsy Gooi, now the manager of Kechara Paradise Penang and one of Rinpoche’s long time students, introduced her godmother, Margaret Chin, to Rinpoche. Margaret is a 3rd stage breast cancer survivor, although outwardly you would never have guessed. Her radiant and dynamic personality does not indicate this at all. At 71 years old today, she leads a full and busy life in Penang, focusing on helping others and...
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（译文请往下阅读） “I went back to the hospital for follow-up check-up, and the oncologist told me that I have no cancer now, and for my case it is very rare for the cancer to disappear completely, THE CHANCE IS ONE IN A THOUSAND CASES, the doctors even said they wanted to put my case on the medical journal.” (Prepared by Pastor Seng Piow and Pastor Yek Yee) I’m Adeline Tan, a long time student of His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche. I met Rinpoche in 1992 on his first visit to Malaysia, then Rinpoche invited me to his monastery the following...
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Being Rinpoche’s personal attendant means that I am able to witness real Dharma in action, both on and off the throne. I consider myself extremely fortunate, and at the same time it is also a great challenge to instil Dharma in my life 24/7. Over the years I have witnessed many cases of how Rinpoche helped many people in both worldly and supramundane ways, so I decided to have these stories told in comic form for the wider audience. It is my wish that through these stories many will be inspired to achieve the state of compassion and attai...
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Dear friends, I received this beautiful message from a student who has been with me for over ten years and she has come a long way. She has requested to be a nun years ago and I advised her to wait and train herself. Her sincere persistent wish to enter the nun-hood has never...
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Yayasan Kechara Indonesia (Kechara Indonesia Foundation) was established on 15 June 2012 in the presence of a Notary Public in Jakarta. It was then officially registered on October 17, 2012 by the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Indonesia...
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Words of Wisdom that will make you a better person in life. VIDEO 1 (11,771 views): Why a bad/abusive childhood is not an excuse to fail in life. Whatever you experienced growing up can make or break you as an adult, why don’t you not let it break you, why don’t you let it...
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Watch these brilliant debating sessions with Tsem Rinpoche, demonstrating the superb method of learning in Tibetan Buddhism that is based on logic and not blind faith to convince. DEBATE VIDEO 1 Can we be spiritual without being religious? Can we gain attainments by being spiritual but not religious? What are the differences...
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