Peaceful Dorje Shugden – Plain
This image of Dorje Shugden is unusually peaceful and has been repainted based on an old thangka from the 1960′s. Similar to another downloadable thangka, this thangka has a plain background, bringing out the main features of Dorje Shugden. Like many Dorje Shugden images, the facial features are said to resemble Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche, who…
Kurey Monastery Great Abbot Rabjampa Ngawang Lobsang
Rabjampa Ngawang Lobsang, also known by his ordination name of Ngawang Thubten (or Ngawang Yeshe Thubten) is the Mongolian abbot from Kurey Monastery and an accomplished master who was known to be able to perceive Tara directly. He was born during the 19th century. Like many great masters, he had a very early start in…
Pabongka Rinpoche (Wikipedia)
Pabongka Rinpoche (Tibetan: ཕ་བོང་ཁ་, Wylie: Pha-bong-kha; also spelt Phabongkha), Jampa Tenzin Trinlay Gyatso, (1878–1941) was one of the great Gelug lamas of the modern era of Tibetan Buddhism. He attained his Geshe degree at Sera Monastic University, Lhasa, and became a highly influential teacher in Tibet, unusual for teaching a great number of lay people. He was the root Lama of both Kyabje Ling Rinpoche and Kyabje Trijang…
Sera Je Dragri Gyatso Thaye
The Dragri line of incarnations was significant enough for Trijang Dorje Chang, who is Heruka himself, to take an interest in them. Revealing the origins of this ancient lineage, Trijang Rinpoche wrote that the incarnations were some of the most profound Indian masters including Arhat Kanakavatsa (a direct disciple of Shakyamuni), King Chandrabhadra, and Pamting…
10 Reasons Why Dorje Shugden is a Buddha
Dear Respected Fellow Dharma practitioners, We hope this letter finds you in very good health and enjoying great success in your spiritual practice. We wish to share something very blessed with you, with the hope that it will add to global blessings for a better world. When the Buddha appeared in the world, he taught…
FAQS – About Dorje Shugden’s Practice
Where did Dorje Shugden’s practice come from? Dorje Shugden arose as the principal Protector of Lama Tsongkhapa’s doctrine about 350 years ago, at the time of the 5th Dalai Lama, who composed the first verses of praise to him. However, the common lineage and practice that is being followed throughout the world today is more…
Manjushri
Bearer of the Wisdom Sword Dorje Shugden is a sublime emanation of Venerable Manjushri, Buddha of Wisdom. Highly attained masters like Mahasiddha Tagphu Pemavajra, Kyabje Pabongkha Rinpoche and Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche have mentioned this in their teachings and written works. Venerable Manjushri’s name is a combination of ‘Manju’, which means gentle and ‘Shri’, which means…
Descended from Tushita
One of Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche’s Gurus, Mahasiddha Tagpu Pemavajra had the miraculous ability to astral travel to pure lands of the Buddhas, such as Tushita Heaven. On one occasion, Tagpu Pemavajra ‘travelled’ to Tushita and had an audience with Lama Tsongkhapa and his Eight Great Disciples. There, he specifically requested Duldzin Drakpa Gyeltsen to expound…
The Era of Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche
Dorje Shugden’s practice remained relatively obscure until the time of Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche. This Lama was an heir to the Changkya line of incarnations but was banned due to political affiliations that the previous incarnations had with the Chinese court. In this incarnation, the high Lamas decided to enthrone him as a Tulku of an…
The Mandala of Dorje Shugden
The mandala of Dorje Shugden consists of a three-storey celestial mansion emanated through the force of his mind. Residing at the heart of the mandala is Dorje Shugden in his principal emanation on the snow lion, wearing a golden domed hat. Dorje Shugden manifests as four other recognized emanations, each with their specific functions and…
Appearance
Like all Buddhist deities, every part of Dorje Shugden’s holy form carries a profound meaning and is a teaching to guide us to Enlightenment. In this case, each part of Dorje Shugden body represents an aspect of the Lamrim and meditating upon his form alone can bring us many realizations and attainments. With beauty and…
Tagphu Pemavajra
Tagphu Pemavajra is most commonly remembered today as being the guru of one of our most significant lineage fathers, Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche. Also, he is more famously known for being the first to transmit the lineage of Dorje Shugden that almost all of us are now practicing. This incarnation lineage is a mystical and very…
Love Shugden, Love all Lamas, Heal the world
I have been edging to write this for the longest time to share this view of what has been both draining my well-being as well as empowering my spiritual self to clear the frustration and negative emotions arising from this unfortunate spiritual suppression. Loving Shugden At the early time, entering into the teaching of the…
Homage to All Dorje Shugden Practitioners
The Wisdom Buddha Dorje Shugden’s function is to protect the pure teachings of the Buddha – the Buddhadharma. Lamas like Zasep Tulku Rinpoche, Kyabje Dagom Rinpoche, Pabongka Rinpoche, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, Kyabje Zong Rinpoche, the Gaden Oracle, the Simla Oracle etc are featured in this video.
Ven’ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Talking about the Sadhana Quick Path to Great Bliss and Je Pabongka
Transcript When we are practicing this sadhana – sincerely practicing this sadhana – we’re also indirectly… we’re also practicing the essence of practice of all other Highest Yoga Tantra. Because in this sadhana condenses the essence of practice of all the Highest Yoga Tantra, you know. When we are practicing this sadhana, we also practicing…
Inauguration Ceremony November 2007
The Kadam Tashi Choe Ling dharma centre was founded in 1995 under the spiritual guidance of Kyabje Dagpo Rinpoche. The centre was officially registered as a society on 17th August 2007 under the name of Persatuan Kadam Tashi Choe Ling Malaysia and inaugurated by Dagpo Rinpoche through prayers and an auspicious 4 days of teachings…
Sacred Mantras
Mantras are a very powerful, effective and simple way to connect to the Buddhas and their blessings. You can recite them anywhere or combine them with your daily prayers. The more you recite, the stronger your connection is with the Buddhas. You are directly creating positive karma and merit to strengthen your affinity to the…
Dorje Shugden on Black
Several images of Dorje Shugden bear a resemblance to Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche as can be seen here. Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche is responsible for bringing this practice to many as he was the Guru of many Gelugpa masters, including H.H. Trijang Rinpoche, who in turn passed Dorje Shugden practice onto his many elite disciples, including H.H….
Dorje Shugden on Red
Several images of Dorje Shugden bear a resemblance to Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche as can be seen here. Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche is responsible for bringing this practice to many as he was the Guru of many Gelugpa masters, including H.H. Trijang Rinpoche, who in turn passed Dorje Shugden practice onto his many elite disciples, including H.H….
Dorje Shugden Black Thangka
This image of Dorje Shugden is unusually realistic and has a contemporary feel to it. Like many Dorje Shugden images, the facial features are said to resemble Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche, who was one of the most influential Gelugpa lineage masters at the time. Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche was responsible for the spread of Dorje Shugden’s practice…
Dorje Shugden
This popular image of Dorje Shugden bears a remarkable resemblance to our lineage Lama, Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche. It was this great Lama who received Dorje Shugden practice directly from Mahasiddha Tagpu Pemavajra, who had, in turn, received the lineage directly from Lord Duldzin Drakpa Gyeltsen. Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche foresaw that this Protector would be efficacious…
Dorje Shugden Lineage Tree
Charting the transmission of Dorje Shugden’s lineage, this Lineage Tree depicts the main lineage Lamas of modern-day Dorje Shugden practice. These Lamas are depicted above Dorje Shugden. The thangka shows that Dorje Shugden’s practice descended directly from Lama Tsongkhapa in Tushita down to Lord Duldzin Drakpa Gyeltsen, who then revealed it to Mahasiddha Tagpu Pemavajra….
Peaceful Dorje Shugden
This image of Dorje Shugden is unusually peaceful and has been repainted based on an old thangka from the 1960′s. Like many Dorje Shugden images, the facial features are said to resemble Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche, who was one of the most influential Gelugpa lineage masters at the time. Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche was responsible for the…
Pabongka Rinpoche and Other Great Lamas
Je Pabongkhapa and many other great lineage lamas of old have been defamed by the Dalai Lama simply because of their devotion to the Wisdom Buddha Dorje Shugden. Learn the truth about what the Dalai Lama said and the implications of his statements.
Lama Jampa Ngodup Rinpoche’s Teaching, Markham, Tibet, VOL l
(17:35) “IF YOU GO FOR REFUGE IN THE DHARMA, YOU HAVE TO RESPECT EVERY SINGLE LETTER OF IT…” Lama Jampa Ngodup Rinpoche speaks out against people who disparage the teachings and texts of the Gelug great masters like Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche and Dagom Rinpoche, especially texts related to the Dharmapala Dorje Shugden….
The Gaden Lineage
(Portuguese with English Subtitles) Note: at 2:58 in the video, there is a thangka of Dorje Shugden Nothing comes from nothing and nothing comes to nothing. To know and understand this better, the reality we live in, we need to know and understand the past and the present that surrounds us. Increasingly, we live without…
Trashi Chöling Hermitage
Location and Layout Trashi Chöling – literally “The Place of Auspicious Dharma” – is located about three kilometers from Sera in the mountains northwest of the monastery. It takes about one hour to walk from Sera to Trashi Chöling. The hermitage also lies approximately halfway between two other important hermitages – Pabongka, which is about…
Spiritual Lineage
Buddha Shakyamuni – is the founder of Buddhism who lived in the 6th century BC in Northern India. Buddha explained that all our problems and suffering arise from confused and negative states of mind and all our happiness and good fortune arise from peaceful and positive states mind. He taught methods for gradually overcoming minds…
Pabongka Rinpoche and the Gelugpa Tradition
Pabongka Rinpoche (1878-1941AD) was one of the greatest Gelugpa Lamas of the past century. He possessed many spiritual realizations and was highly revered. He was the root Guru of both the 14th Dalai Lama’s own principal teachers, Trijang Rinpoche and Ling Rinpoche; therefore, almost all the Dalai Lama’s Dharma knowledge comes from Pabongka Rinpoche. His…
Advice by His Holiness Kyabje Ling Rinpoche
Given at the conclusion of the Yamantaka initiation, Enlightened Experience Celebration, Dharamsala, 24 April 1982. Translated and clarified by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, Dharamsala, June 1982. From the Report on the first Enlightened Experience Celebration in Bodh Gaya and Dharamsala, India. January-June 1982. If, after receiving an initiation, you practice well, you can become like…
“An Unbelievable Expert on All Subjects…”
Sermey Jetsun Khen Rinpoche Losang Tharchin on Pabonka Rinpoche Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche Dechen Nyingpo and his classmate, Gyelrong Sharpa Choje—known as Jangsem Choje Lobsang Nyima—went together very often to debate when they were at their monastery. Indeed, both of them became Geshes. Later Jangsem Choje Lobsang Nyima entered Gyu Me Tantric College and became a…
“This feeling of renunciation was overwhelming…”
(From The introduction to Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand – A Concise Discourse on the Path to Enlightenment By Pabongka Rinpoche Edited by Trijang Rinpoche Translated by Michael Richards Wisdom 1991. All formatting and emphasis mine…) His kindness is without equal. He was — and now I shall give his name in view…
“…Our childish minds were unfit vessels for so vast an ocean of teachings…”
(From Trijang Rinpoche’s introduction to Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand- A Concise Discourse on the Path to Enlightenment By Pabongka Rinpoche, Edited by Trijang Rinpoche Translated by Michael Richards Wisdom 1991. All emphasis and formatting mine) Prasdrin pararia syaklutaki yanta, Tray am guhyanatd tigolama eka, Sudhi vajradharottarah muni aksha, Prayachchha tashubham valdruga kota….
“…It was in his private quarters at the Tashi Chuling hermitage that I first met Pabongka Rinpoche…”
(From the Forward to The Principal Teachings of Buddhism by Tsongkhapa, with a commentary by Pabongka Rinpoche, translated by Geshe Lobsang Tharchin, Mahayana Sutra and Tantra Press, 1998, all emphasis and formatting mine…) Meeting Je Pabongka… It was in his private quarters at the Tashi Chuling hermitage that I first met Pabongka. He had been…
The Great Lama Je Pabongka According to His Disciples and Others
My guru, kind-in-three-ways, who met face to face with Heruka, whose name I find difficult to utter… Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche Dechen Nyingpo was an unbelievable lama who lived in the early part of the twentieth century [biography]. His two main students, Trijang Rinpoche and Ling Rinpoche, were the most highly esteemed Gelugpa Lamas of their…
Lama Zopa on Je Pabongka Part 1
Regarding allegations that Pabongka Rinpoche was a sectarian Lama who presided over the destruction of the monasteries and sacred images of other traditions…. “Another thing is that some Tibetans and others severely criticize Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo because he practiced Shugden, making him out to be some kind of demon. However, Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo wrote incredible…
Ribur Rinpoche On Je Pabongka
I have had some success as a scholar, and as a lama I am somebody, but these things are not important. The only thing that matters to me is that I was a disciple of Pabonka Rinpoche. – Ribur Rinpoche Pabongka Rinpoche: Excerpts from A Memoir by Ribur Rinpoche The Venerable Rilbur Rinpoche was born…
Kyabje Zong Rinpoche on Je Pabongka
Kyabje Phabongka had such vast qualities it is difficult to comprehend them ~ Zong Rinpoche About Zong Rinpoche… Zong Rinpoche was one of the foremost Lamas of his generation, and a life-long Dorje Shugden practitioner besides… (Zong) Rinpoche was born in Kham in 1905. He went to Lhasa when he was eleven years old to…
His Eminence Kensur Lobsang Tharchin Rinpoche
Khen Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin was born in Lhasa, Tibet in 1921 and entered Sera Monastery there at an early age. He proceeded through the rigorous 25-year programme of monastic studies under the guidance of Pabongka Rinpoche and Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche. Upon successful completion of public examination by the best scholars of the day, Rinpoche…
“He displayed tremendous abilities as a public teacher…”
(From the Forward to The Principal Teachings of Buddhism by Tsongkhapa, with a commentary by Pabongka Rinpoche, translated by Geshe Lobsang Tharchin, Mahayana Sutra and Tantra Press, 1998, all emphasis and formatting mine…) Pabongka Rinpoche was actually the second Pabongka, for it was finally agreed to announce that he had been recognized as the reincarnation…
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