H.E. Tsem Rinpoche is a high reincarnated lama from Gaden Monastery. With a Mongolian-Tibetan heritage, a childhood in Taiwan and America, and intensive study and meditation in Gaden Monastery, Tsem Rinpoche is one of the rare, precious teachers with the unique teaching ability to bridge East and West.

Rinpoche’s teachings are based on logic and universal human values, free of the limitations of dogma, culture and individual background, and have led many to enter the sacred path of study, contemplation and meditation.

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Core Teachings: Tsongkhapa authored eighteen volumes of scripture, most famously The Stages on the Path to Enlightenment (Lamrim), which systematically maps out the path to becoming a Buddha.

Founder of the Gelug School: Often called the “Yellow-Hat School,” this lineage emphasizes the strict monastic system and the seamless integration of Sutra and Tantra. He founded the three great Tibetan monasteries: Ganden, Drepung, and Sera.

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Dorje Shugden is the Wisdom Buddha, Manjushri, manifesting in the form of a wrathful and worldly Dharma Protector and has been propitiated as such by the highest Gelugpa and Sakya masters for some 360 years. While Dorje Shugden’s function is to protect the Dharma practitioner’s spiritual path by helping them overcome obstacles that hinder their dharma practice (such as health, livelihood, emotional and mental problems), his specific purpose is to protect Je Tsongkapa’s key teachings on Emptiness. Without non-conceptual understanding of Emptiness, it is impossible to attain the state of enlightenment. Therefore Dorje Shugden plays a very crucial role in the serious dharma practitioner’s life.

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