The Dalai Lama: a Spiritual Conundrum – A Reply to Criticism
Recently, someone posted the following on an anti-Shugden website regarding my previous post The Dalai Lama: a Spiritual Conundrum: According to NKT, the Dalai Lama has inflicted more harm that those who have killed millions of people, tortured millions of people and raped millions of women in modern times. What could be more harmful than…
Canonicity and Divine Interference: The Tulkus and the Shugden-Controversy
Michael von Brück Centre for Religious Studies Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Religions are systems of social communication which at the same time create images of reality which become normative structures of perception, and these in turn define what is considered ‘real’ in a given society. In this way the legitimacy of social structures as well as structures…
Spiritual Conundrum
I was trying to think of a title for this post. I settled on the title after I read these definitions of conundrum: A confusing and difficult problem or question an intricate and difficult problem What is the problem? Well, what do you think about these spiritual quotations? If we make a steady effort, I think we…
A Tribute to His Holiness the 4th Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa
There is no Lama more highly respected and loved within the Mongolian Buddhist community than Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa Rinpoche, in every of his incarnations. (Khalkha is one of the largest regions of Mongolia, and Jetsun Dhampa meaning “Lord of Refuge”). The first Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa was recognized by the 5th Dalai Lama, whose incarnation lineage…
A Tribute to His Holiness Kyabje Ling Rinpoche
In the tradition of Tibet’s great masters, His Holiness Kyabje Ling Rinpoche began turning the wheel of Dharma for sentient beings at a very young age. By 10 years old, Ling Rinpoche already joined one of the three great Gelug monasteries and henceforth spent the rest of his life dedicated to the cause of serving…
Wisdom Buddha Dorje Shugden’s Two Functions
The function of a Dharma protector is to arrange all outer and inner conditions so that everything that happens to us is perfect for our swiftest possible enlightenment. But Dorje Shugden is more than just a Dharma protector, he is also a wisdom Buddha. It is not enough to just know that the outer and…
Lama Gangchen Rinpoche goes to Tibet, August 2011
This was a talk given by H.E. Gangchen Lama and translated into English by Lama Michel on the subject of the benefits of pilgrimage and getting to know one’s lineage.
Ban on Tai Situ Rinpoche – Dharana at Jantar Mantar
Dec 22, 2000 Category: Tai Situ Rinpoche Camp: New Delhi 110 001 July 31 ,1998 To. Shri K.R. Narayanan, His Excellency the President of India Rashtrapati Bhavan, NEW DELHI Sub: Ban on Tai Situ Rinpoche – Dharana at Jantar Mantar. May it please Your gracious Excellency, By the blessing of the Three Jewels we pray…
Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay says Only Democracy can resolve the issue of Tibet
January 13, 2012 11:07 am SONEPAT, Haryana: “Only democracy can resolve the issue of Tibet” said Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay at ‘Democracy in Exile: The case of Tibet’, a public lecture organised by the Jindal School of International Affairs on Thursday in Sonepat. Speaking to a packed hall of staff and students, Kalon Tripa…
Chatring Samphel Ling Monastery, Kham Tibet
Dear Wisdom Being, Thank you for this wonderful video of Sampheling monastery. It is so beautiful to imagine Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche has once walked through these walkways to give teachings and advice to the predecessors of these monks. Have you guys read the autobiography of Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche? When Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche first came here…
Excerpt from Dagpo Rinpoche’s speech, November 1996
Below is an excerpt taken from a speech delivered by His Eminence Dagpo Rinpoche in November 1996, when he welcomed to Paris the fourteen-year-old reincarnation, Kyabje Chocktrul Rinpoche Tenzin Lobsang Yeshe Gyatso: For the benefit of the new people who have joined us today, I will mention all too briefly the activities that have been…
Tibetan Public Talk, Interview of Ven Geshe Jampa Losel, March 2012
This interview of Ven. Geshe Jampa Losel was posted on Shar Gaden’s Facebook. Geshe Jampa Losel was present at the launching of North American Gelug Buddhist Association (NAGBA) in 2011 together with Venerable Zawa Tulku Rinpoche. His picture can be found here. NAGBA was specifically founded to preserve the Gelug teachings with Dorje Shugden as…
Tibetan Public Talk 2012 Feb : Interview with Legthang Tenzin Gyatso
This is a Tibetan talk show. It is very inspiring to see Dorje Shugden Lamas like Legthang Tenzin Gyatso getting more publicity. Legthang Tenzin Gyatso is the Chief Director of the Dharma Bridge Foundation. The Foundation provides English language education at Shar Gaden and other Buddhist Monasteries in Nepal and India. Their goal is to…
Panchen Lama delivers first speech outside Chinese mainland
The Panchen Lama is being groomed by China to rival the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. On Thursday, he made his first speech outside the Chinese mainland, highlighting the emergence of Dharma from ancient India and the need for its global promotion. In religion, Dharma means the law or the natural law and is a concept…
Serpom Torgya
The Dorje Shugden Torgya is a powerful ritual performed to avert or ward off all negative energies and obstacle-causing entities so that good energies, prosperity and peace are ushered in. These two videos show the Dorje Shugden Torgya ritual recently performed at Serpom Monastery.
The Dalai Lama and Dorje Shugden
The young Dalai Lama flees Tibet in 1959 with a few treasured possessions. Throughout the whole journey, he carries on his back a treasured thangka borrowed from his own spiritual guide H.H. Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche. Fast forward 20 years, and H.H. Kyabje Zong Rinpoche carries a message to his Western disciples.
Chushi Gangdrug made to swear against Dorje Shugden who helped them
In this book “Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War” by Carole McGranahan, Duke University Press Books (October 1, 2010), it clearly recorded the incident where Chushi Gangdrug members consulted Dorje Shugden oracle during Chinese invasion in the 50s, and in 2008, they were made to swear against Dorje Shugden!! Shame…
Proof of the bigger picture – Chinese demanded monks to worship Shugden
It has always been dorjeshugden.com’s firm stand that His Holiness the Dalai Lama is purposely creating the ban on Dorje Shugden with a bigger picture at the back of His mind, which is actually to promote Dorje Shugden, especially in the Chinese world, where a renaissance of Buddhism is expected to happen. Below’s account is…
State Oracles of Tibet with the Dalai Lama in Bodhgaya 2012
Khandro Lhamo Tseringma (Tsering Chen-nga), Nechung and Gadong, State Oracles of Tibet, during the Long Life Puja for His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at the Kalachackra initiation in Bodhgaya, India, on 10 January 2012. At 1:05, you can see Tseringma trying to invite the Karmapa and the Gaden Tripa Rizong Rinpoche to come forward…
So Who is Telling the TRUTH?
As far as prolific biographies go, no one has need of a more extensive biography than His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, who has thirteen previous lives to include. The man who has devoted his life to this sacred task is Glenn H. Mullin, the most prominent biographer of all fourteen Dalai Lamas. Having dedicated…
China May Use Dissident Sect Against Dalai Lama: Tibet
S Gopal Puri, TNN | May 15, 2012, 06.32AM IST DHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan government-in-exile on Monday pointed its finger towards a splinter community among Tibetans – the around 5000-strong Dorje Shugden community – after the Dalai Lama had raised an alarm on Sunday over threat to his life. The Dalai Lama has not recognized this…
Dorje Shugden Rescued the Dalai Lama
As the young Dalai Lama fled Tibet to safety in India, he carried on his back a thangka borrowed from HH Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche. The thangka was of Dorje Shugden. Dorje Shugden protected the Dalai Lama’s party to freedom in India. However, the Dalai Lama has always attributed his escape to Palden Lhamo. This video…
Tordup and Losar 2012 at Shar Gaden Monastery
This video shows the Tibetan New Year pujas at Shar Gaden Monastery.
Great Prayer Festival at Shar Gaden
The most venerated Geshe la, Thupten Thinley Rinpoche, who turned the wheel of dharma with great dedication and love for nearly one and half months at Shar Gaden Monastery is making prayers here at the five-day-long Great Prayer Festival. Many participants, who were endowed with good karma, were fortunate enough to receive wisdom from Rinpoche….
Good Faith, Bad Faith
While watching the Dalai Lama on YouTube the other day I was struck by a strange sensation. I was bored. Now don’t get me wrong. I like this ‘simple monk’ as Tenzin Gyatso likes to call himself. I had a long private audience with him years ago in Dharamsala that left me flying high for…
The Lord Dorje Shugden
The Mighty Lord Dorje Shugden is one of the most popular Buddhist protectors of all. Maybe some of the credit for his popularity goes to HH Dalai Lama for his tireless efforts in publicizing the controversy that had resulted in chaos within Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries as well as amongst Dharma centers around the world. If…
Babe I’m Gonna Leave You
July 6th, 1935 – The babe Lhamo Thondup (Wish-Fulfilling Goddess) was born in the province of Amdo. By 1940, he had been relocated to Lhasa and was renamed Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso and named the Spiritual leader of Tibet, the 14th Dalai Lama. While it lacks detail in many areas, you can find…
Kyabje Yongyal Dorje Chang Visits Serpom Monastery December 16, 2011
These videos were taken on the 16th of December 2011 and shows the arrival of Kyabje Yongyal Dorje Chang just before the official opening of Serpom Monastery on the 18th of December 2011. See the monks and lay people respectfully making traditional khata offerings to Kyabje Yongyal Dorje Chang.
2012 US Kadampa Festival
This is a short video about the annual US Kadampa Festival. It is a joyous occasion when people gather from around the country to receive spiritual advice. It provides us with an opportunity to relax and enjoy a meaningful spiritual vacation — receiving personal advice to improve our lives, meditating on transformative teachings, and spending…
A Tribute to His Holiness Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche
Whenever we speak of Buddhism, we cannot avoid the names of a few Masters who achieved such tremendous feats that Buddhism will probably not be what it is today without their contribution. We must start with Siddhartha’s charioteer whose great contribution was to take the Prince on the expedition of The Four Sights (the old…
The Venerable Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
The Most Venerable Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey was born on the 13th of the fifth Tibetan month in the year of the Iron-Bird (1921) in the town of Yätsak (or Ya Chak) in the Trehor district of Tibet’s eastern province Kham. He was soon enrolled in the large local Dhargyey Monastery of the Gelug tradition, where…
Why is the Dalai Lama suppressing religious freedom?
Do you know that the Dalai Lama… the Nobel Peace Prize winner and supposed champion of human rights is busy at work removing the religious rights and the freedom of his own Tibetan people and persecuting all those who are trying to stand up for these rights; and that he is using all his political…
The Decision to Surrender
A lot of people get confused how one practically surrenders completely to the spiritual guide. It seems as if you would become a lifeless zombie frozen, incapable of acting. The reality is it is the exact opposite. Right now we are a lifeless zombie incapable of acting since we are completely controlled by our delusions…
Tibetan National Anthem written by Trijang Rinpoche
The new Tibetan National Anthem or the Gyallu is being adopted and widely used by all the Tibetans-in-exile. Though it is forbidden to be played in Chinese-controlled Tibet, most Tibetans in-exile know how to sing it, even the young kids know. The poetic lyrics touched on the radiance of Buddha, the glory of Buddha’s teachings…
Serpom Monastery Inauguration Ceremony
(Part 2 of 11) Debate session between monks of Serpom Monastery and Shar Gaden Monastery (Part 3 of 11) Inauguration and Consecration of the Assemply Hall of Serpom Monastery by Kyabje Yongyal Rinpoche, followed by Mangja Puja (Part 4 of 11) The Invocations of Dharmapalas Dorje Shugden, Jowo Chingarwa, Setrap and Kache Marpo in the…
Miracles around Domo Geshe Rinpoche
Many miracles have appeared around His Eminence Domo Geshe Rinpoche and his seat, Dungkar Monastery. From miraculous conch shells to halos and rainbows, these are just some of the signs of a highly attained being.
Dorje Shugden at the Mother Monastery of Kyabje Zong Rinpoche
Longrong Monastery in China Sichuan Province, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is the largest monastery in Derong County, one of the 13 major monasteries of the Yellow Sect of Tibetan Buddhism in the Kham Area. It occupies about 10 hectares of land and houses 500 monks and 10,000 volumes of Buddhist scriptures. Its followers can be…
Emperors of China
Historically, the Emperors of China especially of the Qing dynasty have promoted Tibetan Buddhism for the purpose of national unity and harmony in the vast country of China. To that end, the Emperors established and cultivated a close relationship with Tibet, especially with the Dalai Lamas, Panchen Lamas and the Changkya Lamas (Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche’s…
A Tribute to Domo Geshe Rinpoche
The 7th Domo Geshe Rinpoche Ngawang Kalsang was so highly respected that upon meeting him, the 13th Dalai Lama declared that he had met Lama Tsongkhapa himself. There were many auspicious signs accompanying his birth and throughout his life, Domo Geshe received visions of various deities, starting with Vajrayogini who manifested before him when he…
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