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SHAR GADEN MONASTERY - WORLD PEACE TOUR

The Shar Gaden Monastery World Peace Tour shares cultural and religious activities to promote happiness and peace around the world. IT serves to increase awareness of the monastery as a Buddhist University, as well as raise much needed funds for the support of the Sangha at Shar Gaden. During the tour, the monks will showcase a broad range of activities such as the exquisite and deeply symbolic construction and dissolution of...

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 such as anger, jealousy and ignorance and developing positive states of minds such as love, compassion...

PANCHEN RINPOCHE MEETS DILGO KYENTSE RINPOCHE

I have never heard or spoken with people who have heard of Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche speaking ill of Gelugs or Dorje Shugden. He is one of these Great Masters who also really practices the Dharma and emanates love, care and compassion. I have spoken to many, many, many monks. This picture shows how humble Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche is while receiving a photo of Panchen Rinpoche. It was great of Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche to go and seek...

TORGYA RITUAL 2010 AT SHAR GADEN

"Torgya" is a propitiation rite held every year starting from 28th day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, which generally falls in the last part of January or early February. The purpose of the ritual is to drive off evil forces and to ward off any natural calamities so that people can have a happy and prosperous life for the new year. While it is a fulfilling offering puja, many lay people see it as a...

TAKTSE DUBCHO RITUAL AT SHAR GADEN

An update from Shar Gaden Monastery of a four-day Taktse Dubcho Ritual in March 2010. This ritual is the auto-initiation of the 13 deity Yamantaka. Yamantaka is a Mahayana Buddhist yidam of the highest yoga tantra class in Vajrayana, popular within Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Seen as a wrathful manifestation of Manjushri, the bodhisattva of wisdom, Yamantaka also functions as a dharmapala in other contexts. ...

PANCHEN LAMA GETS HIGH PROFILE

CNN Beijing, China (CNN) -- Until recently, he had rarely appeared in public. But now, he has been named to China's top advisory body. The appointment of the 11th Panchen Lama, the second highest Tibetan spiritual figure, to the Chinese People's Consultative Conference is largely symbolic. But it's politically significant. When the advisory group's annual conference convened Wednesday, the focus turned to the...

GANDEN TRIPA AUTHORIZES DORJE SHUGDEN PRACTITIONERS TO REPRESENT THE GELUGPA TRADITION

"I confer upon Trijang Buddhist Institute the authority to represent and transmit the teachings of the Gelug order of Tibetan Buddhism in the United States." In April of this Year, the Ganden Tripa, spiritual head of the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, wrote a letter authorizing Trijang Buddhist Institute of Northfelid Vermont to represent and transmit the teachings of the Gelug order of Tibetan Buddhism in the United...

THE ENTHRONEMENT CEREMONY OF HIS EMINENCE DOMO GESHE RINPOCHE

by Piyaporn Erbprasartsook Startled alert from my reverie by the sonorous rumble of the huge 12 foot radongs, the Tibetan long horn, a sound so deep that it has been described as issuing from the depths of the earth, I craned my neck eagerly, eyes alert for the arrival of His Eminence, camera at the ready. The distinctive smell of butter lamps and incense pervaded the main shrine room. The assembly of devotees waited in patient...

A CHINESE BUDDHIST TEMPLE SPREADING DORJE SHUGDEN

This is Xia Feng Temple in the Yu Zhu District in You Yang County of Chong Qing City (重庆市酉阳县玉柱社区霞峰寺), China. It has a Dorje Shugden image at their main shrine and the lama that is spreading the Dorje Shugden practice here is Lama Thubten Phurbu. Dorje Shugden practice is already spreading to mainland China out from Tibet! Lama Thubten Phurbu inside Xia Feng...

THE DORJE SHUGDEN STATUE THAT WAS IN KOPAN MONASTERY NEPAL

This is the holy Dorje Shugden statue that once belonged to Lama Yeshe and it was placed in Kopan Monastery all the time. Lama Yeshe prayed to Dorje Shugden till the end. He never gave up his commitments to his Gurus. After Lama Yeshe passed away, Kopan Monastery gave away this statue to Tsawa Pulthok Rinpoche (from Drepung Loseling Monastery) in Nepal. Before Tsawa Pulthok Rinpoche passed away in 2008, he gave this statue to...