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President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and several senior congressional members congratulated H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III for His birthday in honor of His status as the supreme leader of all Buddhism and selfless contributions.

LOS ANGELES, CA, August 04, 2018 /   On June 24, 2018, the flag of the United States was raised over Holy Heavenly Lake in California. That flag was not bought from the street. Rather, it was the very flag that on May 15th was fluttering ...

Holding khadas in their hands, thousands of people piously kneeled on the ground to welcome and beseech His Holiness the Buddha. They chanted loudly “Namo Di San Shi Duo Jie Qiang Fo (Homage to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III)” as H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, guarded and escorted by many police officers, walked on the red carpet to the lakeside pavilion with an escort of His senior disciples.

The Dharma Assembly was opened by a welcome from a Rinpoche in English ...

Many van loads of disciples made a pilgrimage to The Holy Vajrayana Temple to experience the quaking vajra poles this summer.

The alpha peacock bravely displays his magnificent tail, shakes his lesser tail feathers and attempts to woo his harem, but the peahens want no part of it. He does this for hours, but he will soon be loosing his tail feathers after the mating season is over. He aggressively chases any competing peacocks away including the beautiful blue-winged contender below. So far, Uma and Reba have only one “litter” of week-old babies. Three are kept safely in their cage with ...

Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche, the Abbot of the Holy Vajrasana Temple was able to visit with some of the Buddhist women waiting execution on “Death Row” at the largest women’s prison in the west, the Central California Women’s Facility at Chowchilla. There are almost 3,000 inmates in a facility designed to hold 2,000. However, that represents greatly improved conditions from the 4,000 incarcerated there a few years ago. There are 23 or 24 women on death row with five either practicing ...

The ostentation (flock) of peafowl that have moved into Reba and Uma’s home in Sonora, California has grown. Last year the wild residents saw ten additions and most of those babies have survived. The males now have their incredible tail feathers and were even practicing their courtship dances, displaying the full array of dazzling colors and some fancy footwork and moves.

We took the scenic route back to the temple so that Sonyia could see where the fires ...

Grace He entered the monastic way of life and took her first vows toward becoming a Bhiksuni (Bhikshuni) or Buddhist nun at Hua Zang Si on Friday. The temple’s abbot gave her the name Zhengzhi Shi. She will live and train at the Hua Zang temple in San Francisco until she can take her full vows as a Bhikkhuni.

A group of monastics and laypersons from China, Taiwan, Thailand, and the U.S. visited, Thien Vien Chan Nguyen, a Vietnamese monastery and temple near Victorville, California. The Abbot, Thich Dang Phap, welcomed them and invited them to stay for a very authentic Vietnamese lunch in the monastic dining room. The grounds of the temple contained many groupings of statutes that told various stories of the life of the Buddha and honored many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

Monastic and lay visitors toured the prototype superadobe structures at Cal Earth in Hesperia, California. These earthern buildings are being considered for private isolated meditation “caves” to be built at the Ancient Buddha Temple site for use as three year-three month retreats. The building above was built as a meditation structure with openings in the various directions so as to allow sunlight to enter to mark the time of day. One structure was designed to reflect sound and amplify chanting and ...

Visitors from China, Taiwan, and Thailand had an opportunity to see the site of the future Ancient Buddha Temple this Sunday. The grass was still crunchy from the previous night’s freeze, and the air was crisp and clear as they were greeted by the friendly resident dogs.