{"id":1165,"date":"2017-12-05T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T12:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2018-04-07T16:37:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T08:37:02","slug":"lake-of-lotus-our-bilingual-buddhist-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"Lake of Lotus &#8211; Our Bilingual Buddhist Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 24.75pt; margin: 8.25pt 0cm 8.25pt 0cm;\" align=\"center\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; color: red;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">All Issues of the<\/span> &#8220;Lake of Lotus&#8221; (Tsopema) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8211; our Bilingual Buddhist Journal &#8211; have now been uploaded,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">and are Available in English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese versions.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_of_Lotus_1_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1166\" src=\"http:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_of_Lotus_1_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2456\" height=\"3513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_of_Lotus_1_cover.jpg 2456w, https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_of_Lotus_1_cover-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_of_Lotus_1_cover-768x1099.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_of_Lotus_1_cover-716x1024.jpg 716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2456px) 100vw, 2456px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0Applying the \u201cTibetan Book of the Dead\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0in Explaining the Mysteries of Life &amp; Death.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Interpreting Buddhism with Scientific <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Knowledge as Footnotes; as well as in<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Explaining\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">the Mysteries of the Universe.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_of_Lotus_1_p3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1169\" src=\"http:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_of_Lotus_1_p3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2438\" height=\"3306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_of_Lotus_1_p3.jpg 2438w, https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_of_Lotus_1_p3-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_of_Lotus_1_p3-768x1041.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_of_Lotus_1_p3-755x1024.jpg 755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2438px) 100vw, 2438px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Dudjom Buddhist Association (International)<\/span><\/strong> was founded in Hong Kong by <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Ven. Vajra Masters Yeshe Thaye and Pema Lhadren<\/span><\/strong> in January 1998, and will be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of its founding by early next year. Its website has now provided<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<strong>free downloads\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>of its bimonthly English-Chinese bilingual journal, the<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"> &#8220;Lake of Lotus&#8221;<\/span><\/strong> (<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tsopema<\/span><\/strong>), for world-wide circulation and distribution free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Their English-Chinese bilingual journal &#8220;Lake of Lotus&#8221;, together with a free distribution of DVDs on the Buddhist teachings, has been widely circulated in all of the convenience stores locally in Hong Kong ever since January 2006. In order to provide for a wider audience across the world, it is now further distributed free of charge for easy download in eBook format at\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dudjomba.com\/\">http:\/\/www.dudjomba.com<\/a><\/span>. Due to its thought-provoking insights, while using scientific investigations in explaining the Buddhist teachings, the Association has now been widely acclaimed as one of the most influential Buddhist organizations in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dudjomba.com\/html\/lake_of_lotus_list_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1176 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lake-of-lotus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"25\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/dudjomba.com\/html\/lake_of_lotus_list_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lake of Lotus (Tsopema)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><u>Please Support the Video Production and Translation Activities at Dudjom Buddhist Association YouTube Channel!<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Over the years, the <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Dudjom Buddhist Association (International)<\/strong> <\/span>has produced various kinds of educational series, with numerous video lectures in both Chinese and English languages, placed on our<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> YouTube TV Channel<\/span><\/strong> so as to teach and explain the fundamental essence on the Buddhist Holy Dharma and on Life and Death Education, and so on. All we wish to achieve is to help Buddhist believers to better understand the genuine Buddhist Dharma, the Meaning of Life, and how they could deal with those major issues and choices in life, such as Life and Death, etc.<\/p>\n<p>As our productions are getting more and more in recent years, we would sincerely like to invite you all to support our Dharma activities by donating generously for the video productions and related translation works on the Buddhist Dharma in order to benefit even more sentient beings,\u00a0such that they can come to learn and realize <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">the true and genuine Holy Dharma<\/span><\/strong>. Indeed, if you can lend your gracious and generous supports to all of our Dharma activities, this will\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>generate and accumulate countless merits, which will be dedicated to all our motherly sentient beings, as limitless as the sky!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Do Support us with Donation:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/frGJdd\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/frGJdd<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our English YouTube Videos:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/baaK4h\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/baaK4h<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Issues of the &#8220;Lake of Lotus&#8221; (Tsopema) &#8211; our Bilingual Buddhist Journal &#8211; have now been uploaded, and are Available in English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese versions. \u00a0Applying the \u201cTibetan Book of the Dead\u201d \u00a0in Explaining the Mysteries <a href=\"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/?p=1165\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dudjominternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}