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A Powerful Message by a Powerful Yogi - Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche

Kyabje Chatral Sangye Dorjee Rinpoche is one of the most accomplished Tibetan Buddhist Yogis alive today. He was born in June, 1913 in Kham, Tibet. He rescues m...]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Not A Laughing Matter]]></title>
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(picture source: Angel Franco/The New York Times)

Global Slaughter Statistics for 2003:
45,895,000,000 (45.9 billion) chickens
2,262,000,000 (2.3 billion) ducks
1,244,000,000 (1.2 billion) pigs
857,000,000 (857 million) ra...]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:36:56 +0800</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[&#29380;&#33862;&#36132;&#35821;&#24405; Quote by Di Baoxian]]></title>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:49:49 +0800</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[&#24344;&#19968;&#22823;&#24072;&#35821;&#24405; Quote by Master Hongyi]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[&#23506;&#23665;&#22823;&#24072;&#35821;&#24405; Quote by Tang Dynasty's Master Han Shan]]></title>
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In the six realms of rebirth ...]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:45:05 +0800</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Quote by Patrul Rinpoche]]></title>
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Especially, nowadays most people crave meat and consume flesh and blood with a second thought, completely oblivious to all the diseases caused by old meat or harmful meat spirits. Unhealthy diets and lifestyles can also give ri...]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:55:17 +0800</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Quote by The Great Dzogchen Yogi, Kyabje Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche]]></title>
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Meat, the sinful food, is not permitted according to the three vows: the vows of individual liberation, the Bodhisattva vows and the tantric vows.
Thus Buddha stated: “I have never approved, do not approve, and will never appr...]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Quote by The late Great Drubwang Konchok Norbu Rinpoche (1921-2007)]]></title>
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As practitioners of this precious Dharma, we need to eradicate all non-virtuous deeds in general, particularly the consumption of meat, as it has the heaviest negative karma. This is because all the livings beings that we eat a...]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:48:04 +0800</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Talk : Vegetarianism by H.H. the 17th Karmapa]]></title>
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6 pages of 17th Karmapa talks on Vegetarianism, please click here.
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 <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:07:00 +0800</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Vesak : Exhibition on Environmentalism & Vegetarianism]]></title>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 12:29:23 +0800</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Poll : Why Go Vegetarian?]]></title>
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 <description><![CDATA[!++2++!]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:26:09 +0800</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Vegetarianism : Chinese Buddhism]]></title>
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Many people wonder how plants should be understood in light of the precept against killing. Since plants clearly are living beings, is it not also wrong to kill plants? The Buddha said that since animals and insects have awaren...]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tribute to His Eminence Drubwang Konchok Norbu Rinpoche (1921-2007)]]></title>
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If on the one hand, we chant the [Mani] mantra and on the other hand, 
we eat the meat of another sentient being, 
then our words and actions do not tally with one another. — Drubwang Rinpoche

One of the greatest obstacles...]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:54:30 +0800</pubDate>
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