German Lutheran church now serves growing Asian community
Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer
Practitioners engage in ceremonies at the new temple in the above photo. On Sunday, those who died in the tsunami will be blessed in a service.Inside an old German Lutheran church in San Francisco, Chinese nuns sit on the glossy wooden floors, wearing headphones, listening to Buddhist mantras on portable CD players.
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Although this was a high level inner tantric initiation and as such cannot be publicly discussed or shared with others in detail, an exception was made to allow Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche to briefly tell others of her experience so that they can learn of the true power of the magnificent Buddha-dharma. A ritual was performed for the rinpoche to remove certain negative karma that was an obstacle to her achievement of liberation. After the dharma protecting deities arrived and the the Buddha-dharma was practiced,the Vajra Dharma Wheel quickly exhibited samadhi. Very quickly, ...
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Shortly after the Ultimate (Highest) Bathing the Buddha Dharma Assembly was held in May, a particular type of flower called “Auspicious Grass of the Four Jewels ” started growing directly in front of where the actual ceremony took place. The flowers had four distinct very thin parts. They grew in a particular pattern and formed a perfect circle. Prior to the Dharma Assembly the area was perfectly flat. After the ceremony, the ground became slightly elevated, forming a ...