Archive for 2011

Students visited Zhaxi Zhuoma and the Xuanfa Institute to work on many projects including repairing the fence that surrounds the lake. They  also explored the attic to see what could be done to remodel the Buddha Hall and found in the pictures they took that the entire attic was packed with Dharma or Vajra Wheels (orbs). There have been many sightings of these mysterious light beings at the Institute and other places where the Buddha-dharma is being propagated. The ...

Xuanfa Institute has been very fortunate to receive several outstanding gifts for the future temple and retreat center. Disciples in Beijing sent a rare antique phuba bearing the head of the Horse-Head (or Horse-necked One) Deity, Hayagriva. Hayagriva is a wrathful manifestation of Avalokiteshvara (Kuan Yin) Bodhisattva having three faces, six arms, and a horse or several horses growing on top of his head. The horse is significant for it’s neigh is believed to cut through false attachments, revealing the ...

Located in the heart of downtown San Francisco on 1025 Market Street near Sixth Street, The International American Art Museum is a permanent, non-profit museum open to the public. The Museum’s goal is to utilize the exhibition forum to pass on works of art that have achieved the most exquisite beauty and preciousness in the history of civilization, in order to further humanity’s moral progress, spiritual wellbeing, cultural development, and world peace. It takes as its mission bringing humanity happiness ...

Students came to the Xuanfa Institute over the Labor Day weekend to visit Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche. The group worked on many projects while there. They also visited and enjoyed a picnic lunch at Yosemite National Park.

Click for more photos of other field trips sponsored by the Xuanfa Institute at Yosemite and other national parks, various Buddhist monasteries, and other locations in California and other parts of the world.

 People in charge of more than 6,000 Buddhist temples and dharma centers gathered at the Asia World Expo in Hong Kong. They came from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the United States, Canada, Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Austria, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and other countries and regions to participate in the “International Buddhism Sangha Association’s 2011 Conference to Commend Those Who Have Accumulated Merit by Propagating Dharma and Benefiting Living Beings & Third Ceremony in Hong Kong to Confer the ...

While attending the annual IBSA conference in Hong Kong, Sangha members visited the spectacular Big (Tian Tan) Buddha located at the Po Lin Monastery atop a mountain on Lantau Island next to the village of Ngong Ping. The majestic figure of the once tallest, outdoor, seated Buddha unveiled in December 1993 was cast in bronze in China. It is 112 feet (34 meters) tall and weighs 280 tons. Its base is a model of the Altar of Heaven or Earthly Mount of ...

WAN CHAI NORTH HONGKONG ISLAND: In April 2008 the treasure book H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III was formally presented to the National Library of Congress in Washington, DC. This marked the introduction to the West of a buddha who had returned to this world and is living in America. The book explains just who Dorje Chang Buddha is, the relationship of this buddha to the historic Shakyamuni Buddha, and how many dharma kings and great rinpoches recognize this holy being as an incarnated buddha based on ...

The Xuanfa Institute has been given a magnificent hand-carved wooden Kuan Yin statue for the Main Dharma Hall of the Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center.

In 2003 Zhaxi Zhuoma received two true red holy vajra pills. Unexpectedly the Vajra Pills in her hand started to jump. At that time the Vajra Pills jumped in her hand just as if they were alive. They not only jumped, but one of them started to circle around and left her hand. It transformed into a dazzling bright colored light and soared into the sky. The rinpoche understood that her merit was not sufficient at that time for her ...