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Pastor Patsy Gooi
Formerly a full-time housewife,
Patsy had the great fortune of
visiting the Gaden Monastery and
meeting Tsem Rinpoche some
20 years ago. The one week she
spent in the monastery changed
her view of life completely.
Prior to her visit, she had no
spiritual inclinations whatsoever
but meeting Rinpoche stirred
something inside her and she
Pastor Lim Tat Ming
Tat Ming was born on 11 th October
1964 and graduated in 1987
with a Diploma in Commerce
(Financial Accounting) from
Tunku Abdul Rahman College.
After his graduation, he had a
short stint in external auditing
and accounting before pursuing
a career as an enterprise resource
planning application consultant
in both multi-national and local
organisations for more than 13
years.
He became a Kechara House
member in October 2006 and
began working as a full-time
realised that there was more to
life than just eating, sleeping,
shopping and having fun.
Rinpoche’s approach to Dharma
was logical and practical but most
importantly, he stressed that
we should always focus out and
work towards benefitting others.
Rinpoche made Dharma easy to
understand and his advice was,
and still is, to ‘change inwardly,
not outwardly’.
In 2009, after years of practising
and applying what she had learnt
from Rinpoche’s teachings, Patsy
decided to set up a Kechara
Paradise retail outlet in Penang
to share the Dharma with others.
She knew that Rinpoche’s
teachings were very applicable
to the people of our time and
that his activities would benefit
others just as they had benefitted
her. She also wanted to repay the
kindness of her Guru who had
constantly helped and guided
administrator in Kechara House
on 16 th July 2008. He took
refuge with Tsem Rinpoche on
9 th May 2009 taking the name
Tenzin Kelsang, which translates
to Virtuous Rebirth Holding
Dharma.
On 1 st April 2014, Tat Ming was
seconded to the Kechara Puja
House Department where he is
currently based, actively carrying
out Puja House work. He also
teaches Level One and Level Two
Adult Sunday Dharma Classes in
Kechara House.
her. Today, Kechara Paradise
Penang is not just a Dharma
shop but is also an outlet that
organises pujas, animal liberation
and Dharma talks.
In 2010, with Rinpoche’s blessings,
Patsy set up the Kechara Soup
Kitchen Activity Centre in
Penang. Saddened by the plight
of the homeless and urban poor
on the streets, Patsy decided to
practise ‘compassion through
action’ as taught by Rinpoche in
the most active way she knew.
Today, together with her team
of volunteers, Patsy feeds the
homeless and urban poor four
times a week and provides basic
food provisions to many hardcore
poor families on a monthly basis.
All that Patsy wants now is to
spend the rest of her life doing
Dharma work and Dharma
practices and to be of benefit to
others.